It’s Alive! Interview with Julian David Stone
8 min readMay 7, 2022
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The 1931 James Whale film about Dr. Frankenstein’s re-animated monster still thrills us today. In a new novel with a title taken from one of the film’s most memorable lines, author Julian David Stone takes us behind the scenes as producer Carl Laemmle, Jr. struggles, negotiates, manipulates, and promises to get the film made. The stores behind the iconic details that have inspired dozens of remakes and…