{"id":140,"date":"2016-10-23T20:20:47","date_gmt":"2016-10-24T01:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.duncaneagleson.com\/?p=140"},"modified":"2022-03-24T22:04:55","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T03:04:55","slug":"inktober-evelyn-ankers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.duncaneagleson.com\/?p=140","title":{"rendered":"Inktober: Evelyn Ankers"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ankers\"<\/a>Evelyn Ankers (1941)<\/h2>\n

I understand there are entire conventions these days devoted to “Scream Queens” – women who act primarily in horror films.\u00a0 But in the thirties and forties, few women specialized in horror.\u00a0 Male actors like Karloff, Lugosi, Lon Chaney, Dwight Fry, Lionel Atwill and others might be typecast, or choose to specialize (if you’re falling anyway, you may as well make it a dive, right?).\u00a0 But the women who played opposite them in the drafty castles and foggy moors of Hollywood’s back lots tended to do one or two such films, and then go back to more “normal” roles.\u00a0 Dracula<\/em>‘s Helen Chandler, Frankenstein<\/em>‘s Mae Clarke, Zita Johann of The Mummy<\/em>, Rose Hobart of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde<\/em>, all returned to playing ingenues in dramas, romances, and mysteries, and supernatural monsters troubled them no more.<\/p>\n

During this period, only two leading ladies acted in more than one or two horror films, and one of those was Evelyn Ankers.<\/p>\n

Ankers appeared as Gwen Conliffe, the love interest in The Wolf Man<\/em> (1941), and went on to become the reigning “Queen of the B’s,”\u00a0 playing in\u00a0 The Ghost of Frankenstein<\/em> (1942), Son of Dracula<\/em> (1943), The Mad Ghou<\/em>l (1943), The Invisible Man’s Revenge<\/em> (1944), and other similar films.\u00a0 She also appeared in several of the Basil Rathbone \/ Nigel Bruce Sherlock Holmes films.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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