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The Gill-man as portrayed by Ricou Browning in Creature from the Black Lagoon.

Milicent Patrick (born Mildred Elizabeth Fulvia di Rossi; November 11, 1915 – February 24, 1998) was an American actress, makeup designer, special effects artist, and animator. Patrick with the head of the Gill-man from Creature from the Black Lagoon.

The costume pieces were discarded by Universal after production had finished on the three films (Creature from the Black Lagoon and its two sequels) and were later recovered from the studio's dumpster by a janitor, who thought the ensemble would make a good Halloween costume for his son.

Revenge of the Creature ( a.k.a. Return of the Creature and Return of the Creature from the Black Lagoon) is a 1955 3D monster film directed by Jack Arnold and produced and distributed by Universal-International. A sequel to the previous year's Creature from the Black Lagoon, it is the only 3D film released in 1955.

But not even in one of the true-blue classics! Eastwood's first shot at the movie business was appearing in 1955's Revenge of the Creature, a sequel to Creature from the Black Lagoon, which was released just one year prior. Don't get your hopes up, he's hardly in this movie at all.

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The film's underwater sequences are particularly striking, captured using a specialized camera developed specifically for this production.

First captured on film in 1954, the elusive Creature — and Milicent Patrick, the woman who designed him — are now the focus of a new book: The Lady from the Black Lagoon. Ricou Browning was one of the two actors who got zipped into the creature's costume for the movie (he was the one who swam).

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For example, when it came to getting shots of the Creature underwater, in action, filmmakers needed to find the perfect balance of water that was both clear to shoot in, but surrounded by the sort of lush, leafy landscape you'd stumble upon in a lagoon-like his. The result? Wakulla Springs, Florida.

The creature from the black lagoon is a fictional character and the main antagonist in the 1954 horror film “Creature From the Black Lagoon,” directed by Jack Arnold. The creature is also known as the Gill-man. It was created by screenwriter Harry Essex, with contributions from Arnold and producer William Alland.

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Julie Adams and the Gill-man in "Creature From the Black Lagoon" in 1954.

It was said Browning could hold his breath underwater for up to four minutes at a time, which turned out to be a highly marketable skill when it came to shooting the role that would become his forever claim to fame, 1954's Creature From the Black Lagoon.

When Ricou Browning passed away last year, I thought about the beautiful images he helped to create. Browning had been the underwater performer inside the Gill-man costume for Creature from the Black Lagoon and its two sequels, Revenge of the Creature and The Creature Walks Among Us.

The Creature Walks Among Us is a 1956 American monster horror film and the third installment of the Creature from the Black Lagoon series from Universal Pictures, following the previous year's Revenge of the Creature.

The Creature from the Black Lagoon is a monster because he is a proto-human, an evolutionary dead-end estranged from his land-based antecedents. The gill-man's physical strength and his kinship to his surroundings threaten the comfort of the dominant species.

The Gill-man, a.k.a. Creature from the Black Lagoon, is the name applied to a feral humanoid amphibian - the last known member of a species which originated in the Devonian Era - which inhabits a murky lagoon located deep within the Amazon Rainforest.

Universal Monsters: Creature From The Black Lagoon Lives! is the second Universal Monsters series launch, following James Tynion IV and Martin Simmonds' Dracula,and will be followed by more new limited series pairing the biggest names in comics with pop culture's most iconic monsters.

If water represents the unconscious, then the monster is the thing we know least but suspect most about ourselves. And of course, water is supposed to symbolize sexuality as well as oblivion and death. Hence the Water Man and the Creature personify not only our fears but our darkest desires.