The Lady and the Monster

Dr. Patrick Cory

Prof. Franz Mueller

Chloe Donovan

Mrs. Fame - the housekeeper

Eugene Fulton

Cafe Singer

Roger Collins (as Bill Henry)

Mr. Grimes

Mary Lou

Mary Lou's Grandmother

Cafe Dancer

Cafe Dancer

Ranger White (uncredited)

Warden (uncredited)

Butler (uncredited)

Bank Teller (uncredited)

Receptionist (uncredited)

G. Phipps - Bank Manager (uncredited)

Narrator (uncredited)

Dr. Martin (uncredited)

Manning (uncredited)

Man Who Tails Cory (uncredited)

Headwaiter (uncredited)

Bit Role (uncredited)

Star Vera Ralston was an ice-skating champion from Czechoslovakie who had made a few skating pictures for Republic. Studio chief Herbert J. Yates--who was also her boyfriend--decided she could be a star and put her into the lead in this film. Unfortunately, she spoke very little English and--according to longtime Republic director Joseph Kane--spoke all of her lines phonetically, without having any idea of what she was actually saying.

In an interview, longtime Republic Pictures director Joseph Kane said that director George Sherman found working with star Vera Ralston so taxing that after this film was completed he quit Republic--where he had spent many years--because he thought he was going to be asked to direct another one of her pictures.

Prof. Franz Mueller: Would it not be the achievement of all time to keep the brains of great thinkers, scientists, authors, statesmen, alive? To derive benefit from their wisdom and thinking power, even after their death - to make them literally immortal?

Prof. Franz Mueller: What do I know about the brain itself? Nothing. Can it think? Remember after its body is dead? Could it be made to feel, to hear perhaps, or to express itself in some way? To contact the living?