Weird Woman

Weird Woman
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Directed by	Reginald Le Borg
Produced by	Oliver Drake, Ben Pivar
Written by	Fritz Leiber (novel Conjure Wife) Scott Darling Brenda Weisberg
Starring	Lon Chaney, Jr. Anne Gwynne Evelyn Ankers
Music by	Paul Sawtell
Cinematography	Virgil Miller
Edited by	Milton Carruth
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release dates	March 1, 1944 (1944-03-01)
Running time	63 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Weird Woman (1944) is an Inner Sanctum mystery and horror film directed by Reginald Le Borg, and starring Lon Chaney, Jr., Anne Gwynne, and Evelyn Ankers. The "Inner Sanctum" franchise originated with a popular radio series and all of the films star Chaney, Jr.. The film is one of several films based on the novel Conjure Wife by Fritz Leiber, the others include Night of the Eagle (1962) and Witches' Brew (1980).

Synopsis

Professor Norman Reed (Chaney, Jr.) falls in love with and marries an exotic woman named Paula (Gwynne) while on vacation in the South Seas. When they return to his home town, she is greeted coolly by much of the community, especially Illona (Ankers), who felt that Reed was hers. Strange things begin to happen, including the death of a colleague, which turns people against her even more, especially as she believes in voodoo and other supernatural phenomena. Reed must work hard to prove her innocence and find the real culprit behind the strange doings. There are several women who act weird in this movie. It's difficult to say definitely which one is the "weird woman" of the title. Besides his wife and previous girl friend, there are female college students who want to spend time with Professor Reed. (Evelynn Ankers had previously been with Lon Chaney, Jr. in "Ghost of Frankenstein" when Chaney played as the monster, and "The Wolf Man" when he played as the wolf man.)

Cast

Lon Chaney, Jr. – Prof. Norman Reed (billed as Lon Chaney)
Anne Gwynne – Paula Clayton Reed
Evelyn Ankers – Ilona Carr
Ralph Morgan – Prof. Millard Sawtelle
Elisabeth Risdon – Dean Grace Gunnison
Lois Collier – Margret Mercer
Harry Hayden – Dean Septimus Carr
Elizabeth Russell – Evelyn Sawtelle
Phil Brown – David Jennings
Kay Harding – Student (as Jackie Lou Harding)

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Universal Monsters

Films

The Phantom of the Opera	The Phantom of the Opera (1925) Phantom of the Opera (1943)

Dracula	Dracula (English) (1931) Dracula (Spanish) (1931) Dracula's Daughter (1936) Son of Dracula (1943)

Frankenstein	Frankenstein (1931) Bride of Frankenstein (1935) Son of Frankenstein (1939) The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942)

Edgar Allan Poe	Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932) The Black Cat (1934) The Raven (1935) The Black Cat (1941)

The Mummy	The Mummy (1932) The Mummy's Hand (1940) The Mummy's Tomb (1942) The Mummy's Ghost (1944) The Mummy's Curse (1944) Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy (1955)

The Invisible Man	The Invisible Man (1933) The Invisible Man Returns (1940) The Invisible Woman (1940) Invisible Agent (1942) The Invisible Man's Revenge (1944) Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man (1951)

Werewolves	Werewolf of London (1935) The Wolf Man (1941) She-Wolf of London (1946)

Crossovers	Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943) House of Frankenstein (1944) House of Dracula (1945) Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)

Ape Woman	Captive Wild Woman (1943) Jungle Woman (1944) The Jungle Captive (1945)

Inner Sanctum Mysteries	Calling Dr. Death (1943) Weird Woman (1944) Dead Man's Eyes (1944) The Frozen Ghost (1945) Strange Confession (1945) Pillow of Death (1945)

Gill-man	Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954) Revenge of the Creature (1955) The Creature Walks Among Us (1956)

Other films	The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923) The Cat and the Canary (1927) The Man Who Laughs (1928) The Last Warning (1929) The Last Performance (1929) The Cat Creeps (1930) La Voluntad del muerto (1930) The Old Dark House (1932) The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1935) The Invisible Ray (1936) Night Key (1937) The Phantom Creeps (1939) Tower of London (1939) Black Friday (1940) Man Made Monster (1941) Horror Island (1941) The Mad Doctor of Market Street (1942) Night Monster (1942) The Mad Ghoul (1943) The Climax (1944) House of Horrors (1946) The Brute Man (1946) Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff (1949) The Strange Door (1951) The Black Castle (1952) It Came from Outer Space (1953) Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1953) Tarantula (1955) Cult of the Cobra (1955) This Island Earth (1955) The Mole People (1956) The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957) The Deadly Mantis (1957) The Land Unknown (1957) The Monolith Monsters (1957) The Thing That Couldn't Die (1958) Monster on the Campus (1958) Curse of the Undead (1959) The Leech Woman (1960)

Remakes	Dracula (1979) The Mummy (1999) The Mummy Returns (2001) The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008) The Wolfman (2010) Dracula Untold (2014)

Reboot series	The Mummy (2017)

Tributes

Boo! (1932)
Shock Theater (1957)
Tales of Frankenstein (1958)
The Munsters (1964–66)
Mad Monster Party? (1967)
Mad Mad Mad Monsters (1972)
Young Frankenstein (1974)
Monster Squad (1976–77)
Love at First Bite (1979)
Frankenweenie (1984)
The Monster Squad (1987)
Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995)
Van Helsing (2004)
House of the Wolf Man (2009)
Monster High (2010)
Hotel Transylvania (2012)
Frankenweenie (2012)
Hotel Transylvania 2 (2015)

Monsters

Franchises

Films directed by Reginald Le Borg

Calling Dr. Death (1943)
San Diego, I Love You (1944)
Weird Woman (1944)
Jungle Woman (1944)
The Mummy's Ghost (1944)
Dead Man's Eyes (1944)
Destiny (1944)
Joe Palooka, Champ (1946)
Little Iodine (1946)
Susie Steps Out (1946)
Fall Guy (1947)
The Adventures of Don Coyote (1947)
Trouble Makers (1948)
Fighting Fools (1949)
Hold That Baby! (1949)
The Flanagan Boy (1953)
Sins of Jezebel (1953)
The White Orchid (1954)
The Black Sleep (1956)
Voodoo Island (1957)
War Drums (1957)
The Dalton Girls (1957)
The Flight that Disappeared (1961)
Deadly Duo (1962)
Diary of a Madman (1963)
The Eyes of Annie Jones (1964)

Fritz Leiber

Novels	Conjure Wife (1943) Destiny Times Three (1945) The Big Time (1961) The Wanderer (1964) Tarzan and the Valley of Gold (1966) A Specter Is Haunting Texas (1969) Our Lady of Darkness (1977)

Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser	Swords and Deviltry (1970) Swords Against Death (1970) Swords in the Mist (1968) Swords Against Wizardry (1968) The Swords of Lankhmar (1968) Swords and Ice Magic (1977) The Knight and Knave of Swords (1988)

Short story collections	Night's Black Agents (1947) Two Sought Adventure (1957) The Best of Fritz Leiber (1974) The Book of Fritz Leiber (1974) The Second Book of Fritz Leiber (1975) Bazaar of the Bizarre (1978) Heroes and Horrors (1978)

Short stories	"Coming Attraction" (1950) "A Pail of Air" (1951) "The Unholy Grail" (1962) "Bazaar of the Bizarre" (1963) "To Arkham and the Stars" (1966) "Gonna Roll the Bones" (1967) "Ill Met in Lankhmar" (1970) "The Snow Women" (1970) "The Terror from the Depths" (1976)

Adaptions	Weird Woman (1944) Night of the Eagle(1962) Witches' Brew (1980) The Girl with the Hungry Eyes (1995)

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