First Date. Awkward.

On this day in 1935, the horror film classic starring Boris Karloff and Elsa Lancaster, Bride of Frankenstein, the sequel to Frankenstein, premiered in Chicago, Portland, and San Francisco. Arguably the best of the two films. Though a classic in its own right, Mel Brooks essentially destroyed the impact of this film forever after the release of Young Frankenstein.

Raymond Loewy Again

Though International Harvester was steeped in truck manufacturing, the industrial designer Raymond Loewy was commissioned in 1935 to revitalize their image. The result was the clever "head-on tractor view" logo representing the company's farming heritage. The black represents the tires while the red is the tractor body with the square block over the eye likely the spring-tensioned seat. 

A career overview of  Loewy.

Never Pigeonholed

Madlyn Rhue (Madeline Roche 1935-2003) was an American film and television actress. She created her stage name by adapting the title of the film 13 Rue Madeleine (1947). Though well known for her television work, from the 1950s to the 1980s, she appeared in some twenty films, including Operation Petticoat, The Ladies Man, A Majority of One, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, and Stand Up and Be Counted. She was never pigeonholed. On the contrary, she was somewhat of a chameleon in front of the camera depending on the role, costume, or studio wig.

Rhue guest-starred in dozens of television series, including the westerns Cheyenne, Bonanza, Have Gun–Will Travel, and The Rebel. Her modern-day appearances brought her notoriety in such classics as The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, Route 66, The Untouchables, Perry Mason, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., and The Fugitive. Rhue had regular roles in Bracken's World (1969–70) and Executive Suite (1976–77). It was at this time she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, though she continued her role on Days of Our Lives. But by 1985, she was unable to move about without a wheelchair. She was offered intermittent roles that did not require her to walk or stand, sometimes incorporating the wheelchair as part of the character. Angela Lansbury created a recurring role for her on her hit show, Murder, She Wrote, considered her last television appearance.

World Wide Web Infancy

 

On this day in 1935, The March of Time was launched in over 500 theaters. Each entry in the series was either 20 or 30 minutes of current world events. Westbrook Van Voorhis, who hosted the radio program, served as narrator of the film series. The series was an immediate success that enabled audiences to travel around the globe. Because of its high production costs—estimated at fifty grand per episode, released at the rate of about one episode per month—the series was a money loser. However, it remained in production for six years beyond the cancellation of the radio show (1931-1945) on which it was based. The American short film series was sponsored by Time Inc.

Casting Call Regular

 

Pippa Scott (Philippa Scott 1935-) is an American actress of stage, film and television who studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in England before returning to the United States and winning a Theatre World Award for her 1956 Broadway debut in Child of Fortune. Scott signed a contract with Warner Bros. that same year and made her movie debut in John Wayne's epic, The Searchers, as his niece. Her television career was already in play when she was cast as Maggie in the single season series, Mr. Lucky (1959-60). Television was still heavily into westerns and she frequented most of them. She appeared as Molly Wood in six episodes of The Virginian in 1962. As the Sixties progressed she moved into modern dramas for, The Felony Squad, Ben Casey, and Perry Mason and others. She had a pivitol role in a 1960 The Twilight Zone episode, The Trouble wth Templeton, playing the late wife of a renowned stage actor who returns to 1927 to join her again. In a particularly nasty role, she cleverly plots to murder her sister in one episode of, The Fugitive. By the Seventies, she could be seen in the popular police or detective series of the day plus a recurring role on the short-lived, Jigsaw John, in 1976. 

Scott's expressive performances and dramatic facial structure played large on the small screen, often playing uncompromising characters. Despite some powerful roles, and a memorable first name, she generally got lost in a long line of female guest stars hired to fill a role. Scott and her husband at the time, producer Lee Rich, were founding partners of Lorimar Productions, an Emmy-award winning television company. The single largest provider of programming to the networks for two and a half decades. Lorimar produced the Emmy-winning The Waltons, Dallas, Falcon Crest, Knots Landing, Eight is Enough, and The Blue Knight.

Bob Hope Gets His First Show

 

On this day in 1935, Bob Hope made his national radio debut on the Blue Network. With his success on The Rudy Vallée Show, NBC offered Hope his own radio show, The Intimate Revue. Sponsored by Emerson's Bromo-Seltzer, alongside Hope were singers James Melton, Jane Froman and Patricia Wilder with musical accompaniment from Al Goodman. Radio programs were generated constantly during this era and Hope's show ended four months later. It was the first of several precursors to the long-running The Pepsodent Show, beginning in 1938, which ran for a decade. The American radio comedy program starred Hope and his long-time sidekick, Jerry Colonna, (above) along with a continuously rotating supporting cast and musicians.

Earning Celebrity Status

 

Ruta Lee (Ruta Mary Kilmonis 1935-) has been a staple of television since the early Fifties with appearances in The Roy Rogers Show and the Adventures of Superman. The attractive and ageless actress was never typecast, whether roles in westerns, melodramas, or police dramas which carried her through television's first decade. In the Sixties, she often tapped into her Lithuanian heritage with a convincing German or Russian accent in comedies or dramas. There was no slow down as she plowed through the Twentieth Century. Her frequent appearances on the game show circuit, often with a panelist name placard, went a long way to place a name with the face. 

The 5' 1" Canadian-born actress was no stranger to the occasional film, her big break coming as one of Seven Brides for Seven Brothers in 1954. Her supporting roles continued in Witness for the Prosecution, and the musical comedy Funny Face. 1972's low-funded Doomsday Machine is a campy science fiction adventure with the cast doing their best in spite of the screenplay. Her most recent role was in the 2021 film, Senior Moment starring William Shatner.

The Landlord's Game

 

On this date in 1935, Parker Brothers launches the board game Monopoly, a multi-player economics-themed board game. Monopoly is derived from The Landlord's Game created by Lizzie Magie in the United States in 1903 and was intended as an educational tool to illustrate the negative aspects of concentrating land in private monopolies. Around 1932, Parker Brothers bought the game's copyrights to Magie's patent for $500. The original version of the game's format was based on the streets of Atlantic City, New Jersey. Founded in 1883, Parker Brothers was absorbed into Hasbro in 1991. The Parker Brothers trade name was eventually dropped to become Hasbro Gaming.