He So Horny

When he's threatened by various foes
Ygor lets in some air and then blows
Coming soon, to his side,
A big goon who once died
They're a veteran pair, and best bros.

Ygor blows his horn: Béla Lugosi returns in The Ghost of Frankenstein (Erle C. Kenton; 1942).

Stomping Groundskeeper

They're a pair of nefarious brutes
One's a terrible, hairy old coot
One's not ample of brain
And will trample terrain
In his scary, hilarious boots.

Lon Chaney Jr is The Monster and Béla Lugosi is Ygor in The Ghost of Frankenstein (Erle C. Kenton; 1942). We return to our chronological ramble through the Universal Frankenstein films, picking up where we left off on 4/21/2013.

Faith Facts

Though in parts she's inept, or confused
From this starlet the sex appeal oozed
Howard Hughes would discover
When he'd lose her as lover
Break her heart and this ex is short-fused.

A poster for Cult of the Cobra (Francis D. Lyon; 1955) starring Faith Domergue. Thanks to faithful David Cairns for title and the edit.

Student Groans

Faith degreed in the school of H Hughes
PHD'd in the paying of dues
But when class was dismissed
The poor lassie was pissed
So high-keyed, she was seeing chartreuse.



Faith Domergue goes ballistic in Where Danger Lives (John Farrow; 1950); with Robert Mitchum.

Faith Debased Initiative

Howard Hughes turned her into a starlet
Did he use her then spurn her, the varlet?
When Miss Gardner came next,
Was his ex-partner vexed?
Did the blues make the harlot burn scarlet?

David Cairns (and Surly Hack, kibbitzer)

A poster for the Hughes production Vendetta (1950). From Mr Cairns: When Howard Hughes jilted his discovery, Faith Domergue, in favor of new squeeze Ava Gardner, Domergue came after them both, ramming into their car with apparent homicidal intent.

Later, Gardner discovered Hughes was bugging her apartment and stunned him with a blow to the head with an ashtray. Being a millionaire playboy can be dangerous.

Casting Ouch

Howard Hughes, when he wasn't Spruce Goosing,
Put loosely, was movie producing

He obsessed on re-shooting
And undressed, while recruiting,
Those beauties he loved "introducing".

Faith Domergue, in the trailer for the film noir Where Danger Lives (John Farrow; 1950). Domergue was one of the many starlets Hughes signed to film contracts, in many cases as a means to add them to his Las Vegas harem.

Faith Front

Howard Hughes liked his men to be lusty
To enthuse them his women were busty
A voluptuous chest
In a D-cup impressed
But the news is tycoons aren't trusty.

David Cairns

Robert Mitchum and Faith Domergue in the film noir Where Danger Lives (John Farrow; 1950), a movie made at RKO, the studio owned by millionaire Howard Hughes.

This Island Mirth

An Island? They say that no man is
He may try, but don't buy what his plan is
With no girlie to pet
He'll grow surly and fret
Any guy that's not gay goes bananas.



Rex Reason looks longingly at Faith Domergue in This Island Earth (Joseph M. Newman; 1955), and a gorgeous panel from the Aquaman comic drawn by the great Ramona Fradon. There, we just tied our Faith Domergue thread and Tentacle theme together by stretching one long rubber limb. 

The Faith Wonder of the World

To be tactless, an actor she's not
Faith, in fact, just distracts from the plot
But we'd keep ev'ry frame
Of this sleepy-eyed dame,
Krakatoa-like, active and hot!

Surly Hack and David Cairns

Kenneth Tobey and Donald Curtis fight over a smoldering Faith Domergue in It Came from Beneath the Sea (Robert Gordon; 1955). Wouldn't you?

The Eats of San Francisco

There you stand, when you're tossed in a pit
Life is grand, then it's lost, sans obit
Angry sea-life attacks
And on people it snacks
Though on land, you're accosted by IT.

It Came from Beneath the Sea (Robert Gordon; 1955) features the stop-motion creature animation by the late, great Ray Harryhausen.

The IT and the Pendulous

In aisle seats men are craning their necks
Not at beasties, nor special effects
They are straining for views
That once drained Howard Hughes:
Domergue's see-worthy, brain-blowing sex!

A gaggle of reporters are happy to see Faith Domergue in It Came from Beneath the Sea (Robert Gordon; 1955); the "It" title creature is a stop-motion octopus animated by Ray Harryhausen.

Seas Gotta Have IT

In demand as a B-movie queen,
Faith left land for some seafood cuisine
But when locked in a sub
She's just octopod grub
It's a can in which she's a sardine.



Faith Domergue submerges in It Came from Beneath the Sea (Robert Gordon; 1955), which also stars an octopus manned by master stop-motion animator Ray Harryhausen.

Send In the Marine Biologists!

Some seafood in Frisco smells fishy
From the deep it came, pissed off and squishy
It has split from its trench
And emits a great stench
It won't keep, says this miss, oh so dishy.



Faith Domergue and Donald Curtis play marine biologists in It Came From Beneath the Sea (Robert Gordon; 1955), which climaxes in San Francisco. The title creature is an octopus animated by the late, great Ray Harryhausen.