Been and Gone: Frankenstein screenwriter and Cha Cha from Grease

"When Hammer films revived the gothic horror genre in the 1950s they turned to Jimmy Sangster to write the scripts. He was actually employed as the company's production manager and later insisted he had only done the screenplays because no-one else wanted to. In The Curse of Frankenstein, released in 1957, he brought a new dimension to Mary Shelley's deranged professor, played by Peter Cushing, which owed nothing to previous film incarnations. He worked the same magic on the following year's Dracula, where Christopher Lee's eponymous count brought a gripping mixture of sexual charm and pure evil to the screen. After service in the RAF during the war Sangster worked on a string of B movies in the early 1950s before joining Hammer. While best remembered for his horror films he actually preferred psychological thrillers, best shown in his work with Bette Davis in the 1965 film, The Nanny."

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