He elicits so much empathy from the audience. Creature really stuck out among the other Universal monsters because he’s not the villain. I first started watching the classic Universal monster movies when I was a teenager. When did you first discover the classic Universal monster movies, and what was it about "The Creature from the Black Lagoon" that struck a chord with you, or that seemed different from the rest? O'Meara would go on to spend several years researching Patrick's life, and the result is The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick, a book about Patrick and the author's often frustrating search for basic facts about her life. She was disturbed to learn that while the design of the beast was officially credited to Bud Westmore, a member of the Westmore dynasty of Hollywood makeup artists, all the substantive work was done by a woman, Milicent Patrick, whose contributions had been effectively erased. Film historian and filmmaker Mallory O'Meara fell in love with the creature and the film that surrounds him.
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