Creature from the Black Lagoon

00:00:19 from Universal Pictures, the studio which had already led the field for two decades.

00:03:35 He started gettin' worked up, insisting that it was true

00:06:50 who, true to Alland's original story, was a blonde.

00:10:15 Alland and Arnold, again teamed on this picture

00:13:27 and he liked to try to take all the credit for Black Lagoon, too.

00:16:31 Carlson was supposedly in a crater in the middle of the Arizona desert.

00:20:08 but at Universal she became Julia Adams, and then Julie Adams

00:23:19 and that's a funny story that I'll save for later.

00:26:29 more romantic than the beast they ended up with."

00:29:31 reminds me of the scene where King Kong takes Fay Wray up the mountain

00:32:39 They called it simply Black Lagoon for a long time

00:35:52 "He didn't like going under the water at all." So during the making of Creature

00:39:08 He had other small parts before the Korean War sidetracked his career.

00:42:13 there was talk of adding a Gill-Woman.

00:45:09 Then Denning got work playing Lucille Ball's husband on the radio show

00:48:39 where Barbara Rush did the same thing to Carlson - came up and touched him.

00:51:38 "If ten per cent of the audience grasped it, then I was very successful."

00:55:18 tells me are not made to flex, give you no freedom, and are very uncomfortable.

00:58:19 "Fashioned of foam rubber, plastic

01:01:34 Everybody working underwater had scuba gear

01:04:26 "Then I would swim in towards them with just the eyes showing."

01:07:40 Universal sent her out on a tour to drum up interest in the movie.

01:10:21 It was cold at night. Denning remembers shooting in the lake one October night.

01:13:33 were all well done, and the best of 'em were all Beauty and the Beast."