HENRY ALVAREZĪfter Katherine’s passing in 1996, subsequent wax sculptures in the museum were created by Katherine’s mentor Henry Alvarez. Today the museum continues to build upon Katherine’s dream by adding new and exciting exhibits for every new president as soon as they are elected. In 2000, the museum was purchased by KCJ Enterprises and after extensive renovations reopened under the name The National Presidential Wax Museum. Upon Mary Anne’s passing in 1997, the museum, then called “Parade of Presidents Wax Museum” closed its doors and sat vacant for the next three years, inhabited only by its nearly 100 wax residents. CHANGES IN OWNERSHIPĭuring the presidency of Ronald Regan, Madame Stubergh and her husband Tom, sold the museum to Jack and Mary Anne Riordan who would run the museum for over a decade. Around this time Katherine’s apprentice, Henry Alvarez, is said to have found a black and white photo of Katherine with “I’d rather be dancing” written on the back in Katherine’s handwriting – a haunting reminder of the tragic irony of Madame Stubergh’s legacy. Upon her Hollywood retirement in 1970 the Stubergh Studio was sold to Ripley’s International.
In today’s world of wax, Stubergh sculptures are still among the most sought after and valuable wax figures and are regarded by many as the most enduring and iconic relics of the golden age of wax sculpture. Today, Katherine’s work can be seen in House of Wax, Gone with the Wind, Charlie Chan and the Wax Museum, Abbot and Costello Meet Frankenstein, House of Wax, The Frozen Ghost, and countless other classic Hollywood movies. Fields and John Barrymore would regularly show up drunk to Katherine’s studio on Hollywood Boulevard, drawn by Barrymore’s keen fascination with her work.
During this time, nearly every name on the Hollywood A-list sat for Katherine in her studio as she assessed their figure and made face and body measurements – the first step in creating a wax figure. President.īorn in 1911 to German wax mannequin makers, the young Madame Stubergh wanted nothing more than to be a classically trained dancer however, her astounding natural skill in wax sculpture and pressure from her family led her to abandon her dancing dreams and focus on developing the family business.Īs Katherine’s skill and fame grew, demand for her wax figures skyrocketed as the silver screen film industry began to increasingly rely upon wax figures for the purposes of stand-ins and extras in films. Originally named the Parade of Presidents Wax Museum, the National Presidential Wax Museum is the only wax museum in the world to feature every U.S. It had always been a dream of Madame Stubergh’s to create a museum dedicated exclusively to the United States Presidency and considered it the capstone of her prolific career.
#Wax museum movie#
The episode has the scene where the Hulk runs away down a lighted alley.The National Presidential Wax Museum was founded in 1971 by famous Hollywood wax sculptor Madame Katherine Stubergh and renown movie set designers Don and Bonnie McPhee. Hulk-out 2: Having several clay pots broken over his head in the middle of the now-burning room and then knocking an entire case of clay pots onto his head, and then, while lying very still and struggling not to get angry, having his pants catch fireĬhristine Belford previously appeared in the season two episode " Wildfire".Hulk-out 1: Attempting to turn off the boiling water for the wax-maker, only to have the faucet break off in his hand and scald him, and then inexplicably slipping and rolling around in the boiling water.Colvin is particularly effective in the episode as the annoying Jack McGee One of the eerier Incredible Hulk episodes.David suspects that there's more to a young woman's apparent insanity than meets the eye when he takes a job at her wax museum.Įnding sequence (same as in "My Favorite Magician", "Homecoming", and "Vendetta Road")
0 kommentar(er)
