In 1933 Universal Pictures was in the middle of its Golden Age of Classic Monster Movies. With the huge box office success of Dracula, Frankenstein, and the Mummy, Carl Laemmle Junior wanted to produce sequels; The Return of Frankenstein and Dracula's Daughter. Both films were to be directed by James Whale.
 
Whale did not want to make either film but he capitulated on the Frankenstein sequel in exchange for Showboat being scheduled for production. Whale did not want to make any more monster themed films. But Carl Laemmle Jr. had other plans and announced that James Whale would direct the new production of Dracula's Daughter starring Bela Lugosi and Jane Wyatt. Whale rebelled but could not, in good faith, turn down his friend and mentor. But he did come up with a plan to undermine the whole project.
 
He gathered together several friends including writer R.C. Sherriff and they concocted a script that could be produced today, but in 1933 would never be allowed by the Breen Censors office. The scenes included, homoerotic themes, lesbian themes, mutilation and extreme violence, Sado-masochistic, torture and special effects that would have cost a fortune.
 
Without informing anyone Whale slipped the script to the Censors office. The plan worked. The Breen office allowed 4 scenes and banned the script. Laemmle Junior, not quite knowing what was going on, put the production on hold and Whale was assigned to his comedies and Showboat.
 
The film was finally produced with a totally different cast, crew, script and director in 1936 but a little of Whale's dark humor still carried over and the produced version is still known today as a lesbian cult film.  This lost script gives us an alternative look at classic monster film history and what would have been James Whale's Dracula's Daughter.