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Why Frankenstein’s monster became green

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The legendary, flat-headed undead movie monster created in the 1930s is culturally remembered as having sickly, pale green flesh entirely due to promotional posters. On the actual set, the brilliant makeup artist specifically painted the actor green strictly because that particular pigment beautifully registered as a haunting, corpse-like gray on black-and-white film.

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