{"id":3467,"date":"2024-08-10T10:00:28","date_gmt":"2024-08-10T10:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/?p=3467"},"modified":"2024-10-18T13:47:31","modified_gmt":"2024-10-18T13:47:31","slug":"happy-birthday-curt-siodmak-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/08\/happy-birthday-curt-siodmak-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday to CDF alumnus Curt Siodmak!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">August 10, 1902 \u2013 September 2, 2000<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Born in Dresden, Germany; novelist and filmmaker Curt Siodmak is best known to CDF fans for his work as the screenwriter of the CDF classics THE INVISIBLE MAN RETURNS (1940), BLACK FRIDAY (1940), THE APE (1940), THE INVISIBLE WOMAN (1940), THE WOLF MAN (1941),<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>INVISIBLE AGENT (1942), FRANKENSTEIN MEETS THE WOLF MAN (1943), SON OF DRACULA (1943), HOUSE OF FRANKENSTEIN (1943), THE BEAST WITH FIVE FINGERS (1946), THE MAGNETIC MONSTER (1953), DONOVAN\u2019S BRAIN (1953), and CURUCU, BEAST OF THE AMAZON (1956)!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3468\" src=\"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Curt-Siodmak_Instagram_1080x1080.jpg\" alt=\"Curt Siodmak photo collage\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Curt-Siodmak_Instagram_1080x1080.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Curt-Siodmak_Instagram_1080x1080-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Curt-Siodmak_Instagram_1080x1080-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Curt-Siodmak_Instagram_1080x1080-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Curt-Siodmak_Instagram_1080x1080-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 10, 1902 \u2013 September 2, 2000 Born in Dresden, Germany; novelist and filmmaker Curt Siodmak is best known to CDF fans for his work as the screenwriter of the CDF classics THE INVISIBLE MAN RETURNS (1940), BLACK FRIDAY (1940), THE APE (1940), THE INVISIBLE WOMAN (1940), THE WOLF MAN (1941),\u00a0 INVISIBLE AGENT (1942), FRANKENSTEIN [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3468,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[30,15,7,5,736,310,162,33,32,245,140,16,737,300,64],"class_list":["post-3467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-creaturefeature","tag-author","tag-cdfalum","tag-cdfroundup","tag-creaturedoublefeature","tag-curtsiodmak","tag-donovansbrain","tag-filmmaker","tag-frankenstein","tag-happybirthday","tag-invisibleman","tag-invisiblewoman","tag-movies","tag-screenwriter","tag-theinvisiblewoman","tag-thewolfman"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Curt-Siodmak_Instagram_1080x1080.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3467"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3469,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3467\/revisions\/3469"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}