Weird Woman

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Weird Woman
Poster
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
Editing by	Milton Carruth
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release date(s)	March 1, 1944 (1944-03-01)
Running time	63 minutes
Language	English

Weird Woman (1944) is an Inner Sanctum mystery 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 Lon Chaney, Jr.. The film is based on the novel Conjure Wife by Fritz Leiber.

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Professor Norman Reed (Lon Chaney, Jr.) falls in love with and marries an exotic woman while on vacation in the South Seas. However, the natives on the island think that she is a supernatural being.

[edit] 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)

[edit] External links

Weird Woman at the Internet Movie Database
Weird Woman at AllRovi

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

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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)

The Wolf Man	The Wolf Man (1941)

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Tributes	Young Frankenstein (1974) The Monster Squad (1987) Darkman (1990) Van Helsing (2004) House of the Wolf Man (2009) Hotel Transylvania (2012)

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