The Wolf Man,
The Mummy) would be incomplete without
The Creature from the Black Lagoon. Yet very little has ever been mentioned of its creator, a woman named Milicent Patrick. For decades, credit for the creature had been attributed to the men who ran the make-up and special effects departments (something not uncommon in an age where the credits’ run time rarely eclipses a movie’s run time). Despite the discovery of an image showing a woman working on the creature, the consensus was that the woman in the picture, Milicent Patrick, was merely a pretty face for the marketing campaign, a photogenic front for the genius of men.