WOMEN OF HORROR: EVELYN ANKERS

IF BARBARA STEELE IS THE REIGNING QUEEN OF HORROR, THEN EVELYN ANKERS IS THE UNIVERSAL SCREAM QUEEN. 

She faced off against the Wolf Man, Frankenstein's Monster and Ygor, the Invisible Man, Count Dracula, Acquanetta's Ape Woman, Rondo Hatton's Creeper, the Mad Ghoul and (gulp) Abbott & Costello!  She palled around with Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson and got mixed up in some voodoo.  And after all this, in real life she married veteran monster-fighter Richard Denning.  When I think of Universal Horror's leading lady, I think of Evelyn Ankers!  Here are the reasons why:

Woof!

demonstrating some of her Scream Queen credentials

 

trimming Lon Chaney Jr.'s claws in THE WOLF MAN

 

with Lon Chaney Jr. in THE GHOST OF FRANKENSTEIN

 

holding a candle to Louise Allbritton in SON OF DRACULA

 

menaced by her heart-stealing fiancé David Bruce in THE MAD GHOUL

 

with Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) & Dr. Watson (Nigel Bruce)

 

 

• HOLD THAT GHOST (1941)
• THE WOLF MAN (1941)
• THE GHOST OF FRANKENSTEIN (1942)
• SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE VOICE OF TERROR (1942)
• CAPTIVE WILD WOMAN  (1943)
• SON OF DRACULA (1943)
• THE MAD GHOUL (1943)
• WEIRD WOMAN (1944)
• THE INVISIBLE MAN'S REVENGE (1944)
• THE PEARL OF DEATH (1944)
• THE FROZEN GHOST (1945) 

AND TODAY'S "WOMEN OF HALLOWEEN SONG" OVER AT MY AUDIO BLOG "BATHED IN THE LIGHT FROM ANDROMEDA" IS "VOODOO VOODOO" BY LAVERN BAKER.  CLICK THE LINK AND GIVE IT A LISTEN.