Mini #232: Donnie Dunagan, Part 2

Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast

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🗓️ 5 September 2019

⏱️ 32 minutes

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Gilbert Godbring. I'm here with Frank Santopadre. This is Gilbert and Frank's
0:23.4	amazing colossal obsessions. On our last obsessions, we were talking to Donnie Dunn again from
0:32.9	son of Frankenstein with Boris Karloff and Bay LaGosi and the voice of Bambi. Well, he had so much to
0:43.3	talk about. This is part two. Did you interact much with Lionel Adwell, Donnie? Yes, yes.
0:51.6	Let me show something interesting about that. I think the production was slowed down. Oh, I
1:00.4	asked about this 15 years ago in Los Angeles and some of the old pros were grievously. I think
1:05.7	the production of son of Frankenstein was slowed down by which because of this. The rumor was at
1:13.3	the time that the studio tried to leverage him into a low dollar contract and Boris Karloff
1:23.5	and the bezel-rathbone fall against it and the support of him. Wow. And yes, and finally,
1:31.3	they let that calm down and he was paid fairly. I think the production was slowed down because
1:37.5	they kept adding him to other scenes. He was so good. He was so naturally good or what they wanted.
1:45.5	They kept modifying the script. Yeah, sure. Yeah, updating it or modifying it or editing it. Yeah,
1:53.6	giving him a bigger role. Yeah, he was more of a sin than that. More of a sin than that. And I remember
1:59.4	vividly this. He won a very first man I ever saw, delivered to get up on the table when
2:05.7	ladies came around. Okay, on the studio. And when my mom came around, he would stand up and move
2:11.2	the chair and not really made an impression on me then. And no, I do that now for everybody.
2:16.2	But that was one of the him using med English now. Him and the bezel-rathbone would do that.
2:22.5	Wow. He did that like a very natural cultural thing and made a hiccup impression on me.
2:29.7	Now, when you were working around these people,
2:33.6	Legosi Karloff, breathbone. That will. Did you have any idea about what big people these were?
2:45.9	I don't have a clue. Amazing. Oh, I have to say, I don't have a clue. All I know is that my mom and dad
2:52.7	are no longer poor. And my mother had some dresses she never had before. Notice, sounds very basic
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