He immortalized Henry Frankenstein in Hollywood's
Frankenstein
and
Bride of Frankenstein
, but his too-brief life was often a horror saga as well.
"One Man Crazy!" The Life and Death of Colin Clive
is the first full biography of this brilliant, hypersensitive actor.
Adventurously-researched, sympathetic yet unsparingly revealing, and featuring over 200 illustrations, this book illuminates Clive's genius - and the private demons that agonized the man who, as Monster-Making scientist Frankenstein, unforgettably cried, "It's alive!"
Gregory William Mank is the author of such books as
It's Alive! The Classic Cinema Saga of Frankenstein; Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff: The Expanded Story of a Haunting Collaboration; Hollywood's Maddest Doctors;
and Laird Cregar: A Hollywood Tragedy.