 Edward D. Wood, Jr. in the film, Glen or Glenda. Edward Davis Wood, Jr. (October 10, 1924 – December 10, 1978) was an American film director, screenwriter, actor, and producer. In the 1950s, Wood made a bizarre run of independently produced, and extremely low-budget horror, science fiction and cowboy films, now notorious for their technical errors, unsophisticated special effects, idiosyncratic dialogue, eccentric casts and outlandish plot elements. After extensive critical and commercial failure, Wood ended his career making pornography and writing pulp crime and horror novels. A widely used promo shot of a mature Edward D. Wood Jr. ...
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Pornography (from Greek πόÏνη prostitute and γÏαφία writing) (more informally referred to as porn or porno) is the representation of the human body or sexual activity with the goal of sexual arousal. ...
Wood's posthumous fame began two years after his death, when he was awarded a Golden Turkey Award as Worst Director of All Time, by popular vote. The lack of conventional filmmaking ability in his work has earned Wood and his films a considerable cult following. Following the publication of Rudolph Grey's biography Nightmare of Ecstasy, Wood's life and work have undergone minor public rehabilitation, with new light shed on his evident zeal and honest love of movies and movie production. The Golden Turkey Award is an award given to poor movies and directors. ...
Cult film is a colloquial term for a film that has accrued a small but devoted group of fans, having failed to achieve any fame outside that group. ...
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Early years
Wood's father, Edward Sr., worked for the Postal Service and his family was shunted around America. Eventually they settled in Poughkeepsie, New York where Ed Wood Jr. was born. A previous USPS logo The United States Postal Service (USPS) is an independent establishment of the executive branch of the United States government (see ) responsible for providing postal service in the United States; it is generally referred to within the United States as the post office. ...
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In childhood, Wood was interested in the performing arts and pulp fiction. He collected comics, pulp magazines and adored movies, most notably Westerns and anything involving the occult. As a result of his obsession with film, he would often skip school in favor of watching pictures at the local movie theatre. Stills from that day's picture would often be thrown in the trash by theatre staff, but Wood would salvage them, making them additions to his extensive collection. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...
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It is reported that Wood's mother, Lillian, always wanted a girl and sometimes dressed young Ed up in skirts and dresses. This went on until Ed was about 12 years old. Some have presumed this to be the origin of Wood's non-sexually oriented transvestite tendencies, but others believe that while on a skiing trip with his relatives, one of his aunts told him to wear a jacket, when he said he didn't have one, his aunt took off her own angora jacket and gave it to him (a theme later seen in Glen or Glenda). The story goes on to say that he liked the feel of the material and made a habit of wearing it. A . ...
One of his first paid jobs was as a cinema usher, although he also sang and played drums in a band. Later, he fronted a singing quartet called Eddie Wood's Little Splinters. He also learned to play a variety of string instruments. Ed was given his first movie camera on his 17th birthday: a Kodak 'City Special'. One of the first pieces of footage he shot was a plane crashing to the ground; a piece he was endlessly proud of. A camera is a device used to take pictures (usually photographs), either singly or in sequence, with or without sound recording, such as with video cameras. ...
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A patriotic boy, Wood enlisted in the Marines at age 17, just months after the Attack on Pearl Harbor. He survived much combat and became a war hero. He claimed that he had participated in the Battle of Guadalcanal while secretly wearing a brassiere and panties beneath his uniform. Patriotism is a feeling of love and devotion to ones own homeland (patria, the land of ones fathers). ...
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Fascinated by the exotic and the bizarre, Ed joined a carnival after being discharged from the Marine Corps. His several missing teeth and disfigured leg (souvenirs from his time in combat) combined with his personal fetishes and acting skills made him a perfect candidate for the freakshow. Ed played, among other roles, 'the geek' and the bearded lady. Still with rugged facial hair, he donned women's clothing and completed the illusion by creating his own prosthetic breasts. This was achieved (allegedly) by piercing the nipple and inflating the breast skin with air. This experience resulted in a respect for carnival freakshows and a reinforced adoration of the bizarre. [citation needed] Carnivals appear in Ed's novels and movies quite often, most notably (and semi-autobiographically) in the novel Killer in Drag. Swabian-Alemannic carnival clowns in Wolfach, Germany A carnival is a public celebration or parade combining some elements of a circus and public street party, generally during the Carnival Season. ...
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Wood's other vices included soft drugs, alcohol and sex. While he respected women and was completely faithful to his girlfriends (most notably Dolores Fuller) and wife Kathy O'Hara, Ed was a notorious womanizer in his younger days. The term soft drug is given sometimes to a range of drugs that are supposed to be less harmful than other drugs, called hard drugs. ...
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Girlfriend of the notorious Ed Wood, Dolores Fuller (born 1923) also earned popularity in her own right. ...
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Movies
 Edward D. Wood, Jr. clad in wig and angora sweater for Glen or Glenda. "If you want to know me, see 'Glen or Glenda'. That's me, that's my story, no question. But 'Plan 9' is my pride and joy. We used Cadillac hubcaps for flying saucers in that." - Ed Wood. Ed Wood as Glenda in the movie Glen or Glenda. Employed as a Fair Use image. ...
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Wood's movies were notoriously low budget, although car hubcaps were not used as flying saucers in later shots of Plan 9 from Outer Space. They were really made from cheap model kits of flying saucers, but it made for such a good story even Wood told people that in interviews. The octopus at the end of Bride of the Monster was supposed to have a motor to create the effect of a violent flailing beast, but the motor could not be located at the time, so it looks as though the actor in the scene is wrestling with pure rubber. Wood and his cohorts literally stole the octopus from Republic Studios in the dead of night, and accidentally tore off one of its legs before shooting. Plan 9 from Outer Space is a 1959 science fiction/horror film written, produced and directed by Edward D. Wood, Jr. ...
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Originally known as Bride of the Atom, Bride of the Monster is a 1955 science-fiction film starring Bela Lugosi in a traditional mad scientist role, and was produced, directed and co-written by Ed Wood. ...
Republic Pictures Corporation (aka Republic Entertainment) is an independent film, television, and video distribution company that was originally a movie production-distribution corporation with studio facilities, best known for its specialization in quality B pictures, westerns and movie serials. ...
One of Wood's heroes was Orson Welles, whom Wood admired because of his ambition and passion for making films. Wood also prided himself on the fact that he was the only filmmaker other than Welles to be writer, director and actor in his own films, although it is likely that Wood took on all of these positions mostly to save time and money. Unlike his counterpart in Tim Burton's Ed Wood, though, Wood never actually met his hero. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...
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Tim Burton Timothy William Burton (born August 25, 1958) is an American film director, writer and designer known for his off-beat and quirky style. ...
Ed Wood is a biopic directed by Tim Burton, stars Johnny Depp as the cross-dressing cult movie maker Edward D. Wood Jr. ...
His movies have a rushed quality to them, usually because Wood and his crew were working on a tight schedule due to funding constraints. While most directors film only one scene per day (or just a fraction of one in more modern pictures), Wood would complete up to thirty. He seldom ordered a single re-take, even if the original was obviously flawed.
A number of has-been celebrities were involved in the most iconic films of Wood's career. Bela Lugosi become a star for his performances in White Zombie and Dracula, but with the postwar decline of horror films had fallen into obscurity, alcoholism, and drug addiction. Lugosi appeared in Wood's most famous pictures, Glen or Glenda, Bride of the Monster and Plan 9. Bela Lugosi, Jr. is among those who feel Wood exploited Lugosi's stardom, taking advantage of the fading actor when he could not refuse any work.[1] Most documents and interviews with other Wood associates in Nightmare of Ecstasy suggest that Wood and Lugosi were genuine friends and that Wood helped Lugosi through the worst days of his depression and addiction. Other Wood alumni include B-movie regulars Kenne Duncan, Lyle Talbot, Conrad Brooks, Duke Moore and Timothy Farrell, Swedish wrestler Tor Johnson; TV horror host Vampira; the eccentric gay socialite Bunny Breckinridge and the psychic Criswell. His troupe of "Wood Spooks" would sometimes feature in his pictures in completely illogical fashion. Vampira's vampire attire in Plan 9 makes no sense in the context of the film. Similarly, Lugosi's horror-scientist character in Glen or Glenda is completely out of place for a quasi-documentary on transsexuality, and Criswell's horror-film-cliche rising from a coffin during a thunderstorm is incongruous for a science fiction film. Bela Lugosi as Dracula United States stamp. ...
White Zombie is an American horror film, first released on August 4, 1932. ...
Dracula (1897) is a novel by Irish author Bram Stoker, and the name of the worlds most famous vampire character. ...
Clinical depression is a state of sadness, melancholia or despair that has advanced to the point of being disruptive to an individuals social functioning and/or activities of daily living. ...
Addiction is chronic disorder proposed to be precipitated by a combination of genetic, biological/pharmacological and social factors. ...
Kenne Duncan (born February 17, 1903, died February 5, 1972) was a well-known B-movie character actor. ...
Lyle Talbot as Commissioner Gordon in the 1949 Batman and Robin serial. ...
Conrad Brooks Conrad Brooks (born Conrad Biedrzycki on January 3, 1931 in Baltimore, Maryland) is a American actor. ...
Duke Moore, (born July 15, 1913 as James Moore, died November 16, 1976), is an American actor who has the distinction of spending his entire career working solely in films by Ed Wood, Jr. ...
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Tor Johnson in Plan 9 from Outer Space This face was turned into a Halloween Mask Tor Johnson (October 19, 1903 – May 12, 1971) was a professional wrestler known as The Super Swedish Angel, and occasional actor. ...
Actress Maila Nurmi (born December 21, 1921) portrayed Vampira in many shows, and starred in Ed Woods Plan 9 From Outer Space. ...
Bunny Breckinridge in Plan 9 from Outer Space (illustrated by Drew Friedman). ...
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The Amazing Criswell (born Jeron King Criswell on August 18, 1907, died October 4, 1982) was an American psychic who was famous for his wildly inaccurate predictions. ...
Wood would go to radical extremes to drum up funding for his movies. Most notably, on Plan 9 from Outer Space he convinced members of the Southern Baptist church to invest the initial capital. There were always bilateral catches to these unorthodox funding methods though, and in this case the Baptists wanted a member of their own church to take a lead role in the film and demanded that every member of the cast (including Vampira, Tor, 'Bunny' and Criswell) be baptised prior to filming. They also changed the name of the movie from Grave Robbers from Outer Space and removed lines from the script which they considered profane. Such editing from producers and financiers was one factor contributing to Wood's depression and was something he personally blamed for his lack of commercial success. The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) is a United States-based cooperative ministry agency serving Baptist churches around the world. ...
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Angora, Wood's most fond fetish, was regularly featured in his films (most notably in Glen or Glenda). Kathy O'Hara and others recall that Ed's transvestitism was not a sexual inclination but rather that angora appealed to him because of the neo-maternal comfort it offered. Angora was the name of the city of Ankara in Turkey prior to 1930. ...
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Glen or Glenda or I Lived 2 Lives is a movie filmed in 1953, starring its director Ed Wood, Bela Lugosi, and Woods then girlfriend Dolores Fuller. ...
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Wood pulp: Wood as author Wood wrote innumerable pulp crime, horror, and sex novels and occasional non-fiction pieces. From the 1950s onward, Wood supplemented his directing and screenwriting income with rapidly written pulp fiction. As he became increasingly unable to find funding for film projects, the novels seem to have become Wood's primary source of income. Non-fiction is an account or representation of a subject which is presented as fact. ...
Wood's novels frequently include transvestite or drag queen characters, or entire plots centering around transvestitism, nearly always reference his own angora fetish, and tap into his love of crime fiction and the occult. Wood would often cannibalize the plots of his films for novels, write novelisations of his own screenplays, or recycle elements from novels for scripts. A novelization (or novelisation in British English) is a fictional book that is written based on some other media story form rather than as an original work. ...
His stories typically careen off into different and unforeseen directions halfway through, as if written with no planning or in stream-of-consciousness. Descriptions of Wood's working methods in Nightmare of Ecstasy indicate he would work on a dozen projects at once, simultaneously watching TV, eating, drinking, and carrying on conversations while typing. In his quasi-memoir, Hollywood Rat Race, Wood advises new writers to "just keep on writing. Even if your story gets worse, you'll get better."
As Wood's most famous films of the 1950's are not explicitly sexual or violent, the outré content of his novels may shock the unprepared reader. Wood's dark side emerges in such sexual shockers as Raped in the Grass or The Perverts and in short stories such as "Toni: Black Tigress", which exploit hot-button topics like violence, race, juvenile delinquency, and drug culture.
Some of Wood's books remained unpublished in his lifetime. Hollywood Rat Race was released 1998. The non-fiction book is part primer for young actors and filmmakers, and part memoir. In Rat Race, Wood recounts tales of dubious authenticity, such as how he and Lugosi entered the world of nightclub cabaret. Cabaret is a form of entertainment featuring comedy, song, dance, and theatre, distinguished mainly by the performance venue — a restaurant or nightclub with a stage for performances and the audience sitting around the tables (often dining or drinking) watching the performance. ...
Last days Wood had serious money troubles in his last days as he was often at the mercy of exploitative producers and independent directors. He would often produce full movie scripts for as little as one hundred dollars in order to make ends meet, and the entirety of his personal belongings could be packed into a single leather suitcase. His career as a director degenerated into making pornographic films such as Necromania and Take It Out In Trade, a soft-X take on the Philip Marlowe films. Pornography (from Greek πορνογραφια pornographia — literally writing about or drawings of harlots) is the representation of the human body or human sexual behaviour with the goal of sexual arousal, similar to, but (according to some) distinct from, erotica. ...
The cover of the DVD release of Necromania Necromania (sometimes subtitled A Tale of Weird Love) is a formerly lost porn film by Ed Wood, Jr. ...
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In addition to sporadic directing and grinding out low-grade film scripts (reportedly often in one night), Wood also made several less-than-dignified appearances as an actor. He appeared in two films produced by a Marine buddy, Joseph F. Robertson. 1969's Love Feast, also known as Pretty Models All In A Row, was his first lead role in a film since Glen or Glenda, and would ultimately be his last. In contrast to his dapper, Hollywood-good-looks in Glen or Glenda, Wood opens the film visibly bloated by the sixteen years of hard living that had followed. His jovial exuberance still shows through in his role as a sleazy photographer who hires models with the sole intention of bedding them. By the end of the film, which is little more than one continuous orgy broken by Wood taking happy hour breaks and then having to answer the door, he appears to have aged even another decade.
Sadder yet would be his next collaboration with Robertson, a smaller role in Robertson's ode to swinger parties, Mrs. Stone's Thing. Similar to Love Feast in that the majority consists of lumbering, seemingly endless orgy sequences, Mrs. Stone's Thing makes ambitious attempts to expound on the dramatic elements of adultery and rape, an effort somewhat offset by farcical segments such as an obese couple pushing two pool tables together to make love. Or, such as Wood's contribution to the film as a transvestite who spends his time at the party (the majority of the film) hanging out in a bedroom trying on lingerie. In Rudolph Grey's Nightmare of Ecstasy, Robertson makes a reference to Wood making another appearance in a film called Misty; however, no other record seems to exist of this film.
He would go on to appear in one more film, Fugitive Girls aka Five Loose Women. He is rumored to appear in the 1977 slasher film Meatcleaver Massacre; however, no one has yet confirmed that it is even the same Ed Wood. His primary film work in the seventies consisted of co-writing scripts for a string of softcore flicks with A.C. Stephens aka Steven Apostolof, as well as serving as "Assistant Director." These titles include The Class Reunion, The Snow Bunnies, The Beach Bunnies and The Cocktail Waitresses. One of these films, Drop-Out Wife, stands out as surprisingly substantial and poignant beyond its production values and the calibre of its peers. He was reportedly to appear in the Stephens' crime caper Hot Ice, but was let go due to excessive drunkenness. Judging by the level of inebriation clearly visible in his last two screen appearances, he must have been in really bad shape at that point.
Wood's depression grew, and with it a serious drinking problem, notably an addiction to whiskey. His whiskey of choice was Imperial Whiskey, but he switched to Popov Vodka after Imperial went out of business. Many believe his depression was caused by the realization that he had failed in his quest for artistic recognition and stardom[citation needed]. Evicted from his Hollywood apartment on Yucca Street (dubbed "Yucca Flats" by his wife, possibly in (dis)honor of Tor Johnson's last film The Beast of Yucca Flats), Wood and his wife moved into the bungalow of friend Peter Coe. Only days after the move, Wood died of a heart attack while watching a televised football game alone in Coe's basement. In Nightmare of Ecstasy, it's reported Wood yelled out "Kathy! Kathy, I'm dying!" a plea his wife upstairs ignored for 90 minutes before finally going downstairs to find him dead. (Wood apparently shouted this at his wife quite frequently, often to the point of Kathy yelling back "Shut up, Ed!") He was 54 years old. Alcoholism is the obsessive preoccupation with, alcoholic beverages to the extent that such use interferes with the drinkers normal personal, family, social, or work life, and may lead to physical, or mental harm. ...
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As for Ed's wife Kathy, she passed from this realm on June 26, 2006, having never remarried. Her obituary which appeared in Fangoria Magazine follows:
"Fango has learned that Kathy Wood, widow of acclaimed cult director Edward D. Wood, Jr, succumbed to esophagal cancer on Monday, June 26 at the Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital in Hollywood, CA. She was 84 years of age.
Born Kathleen O’Hara Everett in 1922 in suburban Vancouver, Canada, the executive secretary moved to Los Angeles in the 1950s on a job transfer from the Bechtel Corporation, and in 1955 met and wed Ed, a struggling filmmaker and offbeat pulp fiction author. An active partner in Ed’s entertainment endeavors (Kathy coined the term “solarnite bomb” immortalized in 1959’s PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE and worked as art director on NIGHT OF THE GHOULS), Kathy assisted the writer, producer and director on many of his productions, and though mainstream success eluded them, she remained lovingly by his side until his death in 1978. She never remarried.
Following Ed’s death, there was a resurgence of interest in the man and his work, culminating in director Tim Burton’s 1994 biopic ED WOOD (in which Johnny Depp portrayed Ed and Patricia Arquette, pictured, essayed Kathy). Though a failure at the box office, Burton’s film received critical acclaim and a cult following of its own; Martin Landau’s portrayal of actor (and friend of Ed and Kathy) Bela Lugosi earned an Oscar, as did Rick Baker for his makeup that transformed Landau into the DRACULA star.
Due to the public’s newfound awareness of her late husband’s work, Kathy seized the opportunity and toiled tirelessly to bring further attention to his oeuvre. She succeeded in having several of Ed’s books brought back into print, including a semi-autobiographical work entitled HOLLYWOOD RAT RACE. Kathy also overcame long odds by managing to have Ed’s favorite script, I WOKE UP EARLY THE DAY I DIED, produced as a film in 1998. Directed by Aris Iliopulos, the offbeat, expressionistic project attracted such genre faves and heavyweight actors as Karen Black, Tippi Hedron, Billy Zane, Ron Perlman, Christina Ricci, Tara Reid, John Ritter, Sandra Bernhard, Eartha Kitt, Andrew McCarthy, Will Patton, Rick Schroder and Nicolette Sheridan (among others), with Kathy herself and longtime Ed friends and collaborators Vampira and David Ward making appearances as well.
Kathy, speaking to Fango prior to her passing, wistfully recalled her at-times erratic 23-year marriage to Ed: “The wonderful things we did together and the wonderful times we spent together made up for the bad. His heart was in the right place. He was a romantic.“
Kathy was a dog lover, and memorials may be sent to the ASPCA. A private service will be held at Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood, CA at a later date. —Sean Decker
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The 1994 film Ed Wood, by director Tim Burton, tells the story of Wood and Bela Lugosi and the making of the three films they did together (Glen or Glenda, Bride of the Monster and Plan 9 from Outer Space), from a sympathetic point of view. Wood was played by Johnny Depp and Lugosi by Martin Landau, who won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Despite mass critical acclaim, the film did poorly at the box office. It has since become a cult hit on video and DVD. Ed Wood is a biopic directed by Tim Burton, stars Johnny Depp as the cross-dressing cult movie maker Edward D. Wood Jr. ...
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Ed Wood is a biopic directed by Tim Burton, stars Johnny Depp as the transvestite cult movie maker Edward D. Wood Jr. ...
Tim Burton Timothy William Burton (born August 25, 1958) is an American film director, writer and designer known for his off-beat and quirky style. ...
Glen or Glenda or I Lived 2 Lives is a movie filmed in 1953, starring its director Ed Wood, Bela Lugosi, and Woods then girlfriend Dolores Fuller. ...
Originally known as Bride of the Atom, Bride of the Monster is a 1955 science-fiction film starring Bela Lugosi in a traditional mad scientist role, and was produced, directed and co-written by Ed Wood. ...
Plan 9 from Outer Space is a 1959 science fiction/horror film written, produced and directed by Edward D. Wood, Jr. ...
Johnny Depp (born John Christopher Depp II on June 9, 1963) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor. ...
Martin Landau in North by Northwest. ...
The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; nominations are made by Academy members who are actors and actresses. ...
Cult status Among connoiseurs of kitsch and bad cinema, Ed Wood is revered as being the ultimate "bad" director of all time. His cult status began two years after his death with his recognition in the book The 50 Worst Films Ever Made, and has continued with the rediscovery of many of his long-lost works. Example of kitsch Kitsch is a German term roughly meaning knock off that has been used to categorize art that is considered an inferior copy of an existing style. ...
The somewhat prestigious University of Southern California holds the "Ed Wood Film Festival" annually, in which students of all disciplines are challenged to form teams that write, film, and edit an Ed Wood-inspired short film based on a preassigned theme. Past themes have included "Slippery When Wet" (2006), "What's That In Your Pocket?" (2005), and "Rebel Without A Bra" (2004). Edward L. Doheny Jr. ...
Some of Ed Wood's most famous films, including Glen or Glenda? and Plan 9 From Outer Space have been remade as pornographic movies (as Glen & Glenda and Plan 69 From Outer Space, respectively) - not simply spoofed or referenced, but reshot, with the same or similar script, and sex scenes worked into the original plots. This is somewhat ironic due to the fact that many of Ed Wood's later films were fully or partly pornographic or contained sexual themes. Pornography (from Greek πόÏνη prostitute and γÏαφία writing) (more informally referred to as porn or porno) is the representation of the human body or sexual activity with the goal of sexual arousal. ...
In 1998, Wood's unfilmed script I Woke Up Early the Day I Died was produced, starring Billy Zane and Christina Ricci, and has preserved the inept, goofy character that made Wood's films famous. Billy Zane as The Phantom William George Zane, Jr. ...
Christina Ricci (born February 12, 1980) is an American actress. ...
Three of his films (Bride of the Monster, The Violent Years and The Sinister Urge) have been lampooned on the television series Mystery Science Theater 3000, which has given those works wider exposure. Producers considered including Plan 9, but found it had too much dialogue for the show's format, though series headwriter and host from 1993 to 1999 Mike Nelson would go on to do an audio commentary for a 2006 DVD release. Mystery Science Theater 3000 (1988–1999), usually abbreviated MST3K, is an American cult television comedy series created by Joel Hodgson featuring a man and his robot sidekicks who are trapped on a satellite in space and forced to watch particularly bad movies. ...
The name Mike Nelson could refer to several people: Comedian and writer Michael J. Nelson Mike Nelson, the character played by Michael J. Nelson on Mystery Science Theater 3000 Mike Nelson, the fictional scuba diver (played by Lloyd Bridges) in American television adventure series Sea Hunt Mike Nelson, artist and...
Books There have also been a number of titles written about Ed Wood including: - Nightmare of Ecstasy by Rudolph Grey (ISBN 0922915245) - the primary source of biographical information for anyone interested in Ed Wood.
- Muddled Mind: The Complete Works of Edward D. Wood, Jr. by David C. Hayes and Hayden Davis.
- This is Wood: an illustrated conversation between a Hollywood Historian and a Dead Director by Rob Westwood.
- Ed Wood: The Early Years by Jean Marie Stine.
See also The term B-movie originally referred to a film designed to be distributed as the lower half of a double feature, often a genre film featuring cowboys, gangsters or vampires. ...
Plan 9 from Outer Space is a 1959 science fiction/horror film written, produced and directed by Edward D. Wood, Jr. ...
Ed Wood is a biopic directed by Tim Burton, stars Johnny Depp as the transvestite cult movie maker Edward D. Wood Jr. ...
Devil Girls (2000)) Independent production that adapts Eds book of the same name. ...
Black Lace Drag (1963). ...
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