Movies
April, 1999
The recent succès d'estime Gods and Monsters brought unprecedented attention to a man who previously was known mainly to film buffs and scholars: director James Whale, played so wonderfully well by Ian McKellen. Bill Condon's screenplay was based on a 1995 book by Christopher Bram, Father of Frankenstein, which speculates about the once-great filmmaker's homosexual liaisons and his final days in Hollywood.But that book, however rooted in reality, is a work of fiction. James Curtis' James Whale:...
