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Random Trivia For This Title: - Dr. Frankenstein's first name is Henry, while his best friend's name is Victor Moritz. In the novel, the doctor's name is Victor Frankenstein, while his best friend is Henry Clerval.
- The monster make-up design by [?] Jack P. Pierce is under copyright to Universal through the year 2026, and licensed by Universal Studios Licensing, Inc.
- The film was banned in Kansas upon its original release on the grounds that it exhibited "cruelty and tended to debase morals".
- What are commonly called bolts on the neck of the monster are in reality electrodes.
- Some of the sets had originally been constructed for [?] Paul Leni's The Cat and the Canary which Universal had produced four years earlier.
- The popular image of Frankenstein's monster as green-skinned was sourced in this film. Actually, [?] Jack P. Pierce's monster make-up gave the monster yellow skin, one of the few consistencies from Mary ShelleyMary Shelley's original description of the monster.
- John HustonJohn Huston wrote an early version of the warning speech given at the start of the film.
- John CarradineJohn Carradine, who later played Dracula in the Universal horror films, once claimed he was considered for the role of the Monster.
- [?] Ken Strickfaden, who created all the electrical effects for the movie, also doubled for Boris KarloffBoris Karloff during the sequences that showed the million volt sparks playing over his body. The same machines were later used in the comedy Young Frankenstein.
- Boris KarloffBoris Karloff offered to remove his partial bridgework as part of the monster make-up process to create the sunken cheek look.
- Boris KarloffBoris Karloff is considered a late bloomer in Hollywood. Frankenstein premiered when he was 44 years old.
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