Mystery of the Wax Museum

Mystery of the Wax Museum

Credits
Title:	Mystery of the Wax Museum
Directed by:	Michael Curtiz
Written by:	Don Mullaly; Carl Erickson; Charles S. Belden
Produced by:	Henry Blanke; Hal B. Wallis
Cinematography:	Ray Rennahan
Edited by:	George Amy
Production
Distributors:	Warner Bros.
Released:	February 18th, 1933
Rating:	Unrated
Running time:	77 min.
Country:	USA
Language:	English
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Mystery of the Wax Museum is an American feature film of the psycho-thriller genre. It was directed by Michael Curtiz with a screenplay written by Don Mullaly and Carl Erickson based on an unpublished short story by Charles S. Belden. It was produced by Warner Bros. and premiered in the United States on February 18th, 1933.

Cast[]

Actor

Role

Lionel Atwill

Ivan Igor

Fay Wray

Charlotte Duncan

Glenda Farrell

Florence Dempsey

Frank McHugh

Jim

Allen Vincent

Ralph Burton

Gavin Gordon

George Winton

Edwin Maxwell

Joe Worth

Holmes Herbert

Doctor Ramussen

Claude King

Mister Galatalin

Arthur Edmund Carewe

Sparrow, Professor Darcy

Thomas Jackson

Detective

DeWitt Jennings

Police captain

Matthew Betz

Hugo

Monica Bannister

Joan Gale

Notes & Trivia[]

Mystery of the Wax Museum, The, The Mystery of the Wax Museum, Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933) and The Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933) all redirect to this page.

There are a total of fourteen credited cast members in this film.

Production on Mystery of the Wax Museum began on September 26th, 1932. Principal shooting concluded on October 31st, 1932. The movie was shot at Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank, California.

This film was released during the Pre Code era, which allows for material and concepts that would otherwise be restricted in a film from this era.

This movie is notable for being the final film production to make use of the two-color Technicolor process.

Writer Charles Belden is credited as Charles S. Belden in this film.

Actor Thomas E. Jackson is credited as Thomas Jackson in this film.

Director Michael Curtiz is also known for directing Doctor X in 1932 and The Walking Dead in 1936.

Charles S. Belden was also one of several contributing writers on the 1936 film Dracula's Daughter.

Actors Lionel Atwill and Fay Wray also played opposite one another in 1932's Doctor X, which was also directed by Michael Curtiz.

Actor Holmes Herbert has appeared in a number of notable horror pieces of this era including The Invisible Man, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Mark of the Vampire, and Ghost of Frankenstein.

Actress Fay Wray will soon go on to make movie history opposite her biggest co-star ever in the 1933 film King Kong, which is released two months after Mystery of the Wax Museum.

Some of the famous likenesses found in the wax museum include Queen Victoria, Maximilian I, Sir Walter Raleigh, Marie Antoinette, Queen Elizabeth I, Joan of Arc, and Jack the Ripper.

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