Sandra Mornay (Lenore Aubert; 1918-1993) is the villainess from Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (release date June 15, 1948).
Sandra Mornay is an evil scientist working for Dracula (Bela Lugosi), who is looking for a human brain to revive Frakenstein's monster (Glenn Strange). She suggests a baggage room worker named Wilbur Gray (Lou Costello), and poses as his girlfriend as part of her villainous scheme.
Later in the film, Dracula (impatient over not capturing Wilbur) encounters Sandra in her room, and later bites Sandra's neck, turning her into a vampiress.
Subsequently, the evil Sandra attempted to hypnotize Wilbur with her new vampire powers, and nearly sank her fangs into Wilbur before she was interrupted by Chick (Bud Abbott) and Larry Talbot (the Wolf Man - Lon Chaney Jr.). Sandra and Dracula eventually capture Wilbur and take him to Dracula's castle, where he is prepped up for the operation. At that moment, Larry transforms into the Wolf Man and fights both of them, ending with Sandra being thrown out the window by the Frankenstein Monster and falling to her death.
Trivia[]
- Lenore Aubert worked with Abbott and Costello a year later in Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff, playing villainous femme fatale Angela Gordon.
- Glenn Strange was injured during the last days of the production, when he tripped over a camera cable and broke his ankle. Lon Chaney Jr. (who played Frankenstein's Monster in "The Ghost of Frankenstein" (1942) played the monster in the sceen where it throws Sandra Mornay out the window.
- Actress Lenore Aubert did all of her own stunts. Including all her own screams. Including, also,the laboratory scene when the Monster, played both by Glenn Strange and Lon Chaney Jr. picks up Sandra, Aubert, and carries her to the skylight window to throw her through it. Aubert wanted to do the stunt to its completion and be tossed through the breakaway window, made of sugar, however the director, Charles Barton, and the head of the studio, Robert Arthur, talked her out of it.
- It was a good thing Aubert didn't do the stunt to completion because the stunt woman, Helen Thurston, when tossed through the sugar window fell on her right hip do to the fact that the cable wire she was attached to was given too much slack.
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Sandra teams up with Dracula and Frankenstein's Monster
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Sandra prepares to cut out Costello's brain.
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Sandra is killed by Frankenstein's monster.