It had little caption: Millicent Patrick, designer and artist. I had never seen a woman working behind the scenes in a movie-especially a monster movie. I went online and was looking all the behind-the-scenes stuff and trivia, and I saw a picture of a woman working on the creature suit. I loved it, and in my nerdy teenage ways I had to know everything about this movie because that’s what you do when you’re a nerdy teenager. And then I finally got to Creature from the Black Lagoon. I watched Frankenstein, Wolf Man, and all those movies, by myself. Mallory O’Meara: When I was a teenager-I was the only one in my family who likes monster stuff-so I had to teach myself. How did you find out about Millicent and when did you start writing this book? Rider Strong: Lady from the Black Lagoon is built around a really cool fact that I don’t think a lot of people know, which is that perhaps the most famous holiday creature of all time-the creature from the Black Lagoon-was designed by a woman. Bonus conversation about Kill the Next One by Federico Axat, O’Meara’s pick for our book club discussion. This week, the Literary Disco trio talked with Mallory O’Meara about her new book, The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Millicent Patrick, the true story of Disney’s first female animators and the only woman in history to create one of Hollywood’s classic movie monsters.
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