{"id":5385291,"date":"2025-09-08T12:10:24","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T12:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.life.com\/?p=5385291"},"modified":"2025-09-08T12:10:26","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T12:10:26","slug":"they-dont-make-them-like-this-anymore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.life.com\/arts-entertainment\/they-dont-make-them-like-this-anymore\/","title":{"rendered":"They Don&#8217;t Make Them Like This Anymore"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The photos from the set of the movie <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0046876\/\"><em>Creature From the Black Lagoon<\/em><\/a> are a window into the world of what monster movies looked like in the days before CGI. The film was a major production in its day, and the main object of terror\u2014and an effective one\u2014was a dude in a costume.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The movie, which was shown in 3-D, cost $550,000 to make (a little over $6 million in 2025 dollars), and people generally liked it. The <a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.afi.com\/Catalog\/moviedetails\/51168#:~:text=Salter%20%2C%20and%20Herman%20Stein.%20At%20the,one%20of%20the%20genre's%20most%20iconic%20monsters.\">American Film Institute writes<\/a> writes, &#8220;At the time of its release,\u00a0<em>Creature from the Black Lagoon<\/em>\u00a0enjoyed critical and popular success, and has since gained status as one of the most important science-fiction films of the era, with the Gill Man emerging as one of the genre&#8217;s most iconic monsters.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LIFE&#8217;s object of interest on the Florida set was not in fact Gill Man, but rather the movie&#8217;s lead actress, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/shorts\/glqkDlsCTQ0\">Julia Adams<\/a>. The photos were taken for a story headlined &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=N1MEAAAAMBAJ&amp;pg=PA105&amp;dq=black+lagoon&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=2ahUKEwi764Kl5L-PAxVev4kEHfn2GyUQ6AF6BAgNEAM#v=onepage&amp;q=black%20lagoon&amp;f=false\">Julia in Jeopardy<\/a>,&#8221; and was about how Adams was always playing women in danger. &#8220;Julie&#8217;s current opus is <em>Creature From the Black Lagoon<\/em>, a science fictioner in which she hoped her perils would end and her acting begin,&#8221; LIFE wrote. &#8220;But she swallowed up her disappointment when she wound up in the arms of a 6-foot, 5-inch Gill Man, who keeps her amply jeopardized, most of the time under water.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The images by LIFE staff photographer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.life.com\/photographer\/edward-clark\/\">Edward Clark<\/a> capture Gill Man carrying off Clark in what is supposed to be the Amazon jungle. A secondary figures who pops up in one of Clark&#8217;s images is <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bud_Westmore\">Bud Westmore<\/a>, who was one of Hollywood&#8217;s grand wizards of makeup and worked on more than 400 films, including another movie whose set LIFE visited, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.life.com\/arts-entertainment\/spartacus-life-behind-the-scenes-of-a-kubrick-classic\/\"><em>Spartacus<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And while the headline of this story is &#8220;They Don&#8217;t Make Them Like This Anymore,&#8221; plenty have wanted to take their shot. The list of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Creature_from_the_Black_Lagoon\">directors who have tried to remake <em>Creature from the Black Lagoon<\/em><\/a> includes some impressive names: John Landis, John Carpenter, Ivan Reitman, and Guillermo del Toro among others. In 2024 Australian director <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/James_Wan\">James Wan<\/a> was the latest to be attached to a <em>Creature<\/em> remake.<\/p>\n\n\n<blockquote id=\"single-block_68b9e0d52684f\" class=\"single-image \">\n    <section>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" data=\"block-image\" data-id=5385293 desc=\"\" caption=\"Edward Clark\/Life Picture Collection\/Shutterstock\" title=\"Makeup artist Jack Kevan assisted with Gill Man&#039;s costume on the set of the movie &#039;Creature from the Black Lagoon&#039;, 1953.\" src=\"https:\/\/static.life.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/04185647\/112626429-1024x661.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>\n                <div class=\"image-info\">\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">Makeup artist Jack Kevan assisted with Gill Man&#8217;s costume on the set of the movie &#8216;Creature from the Black Lagoon&#8217;, 1953.<\/p>\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">Edward Clark\/Life Picture Collection\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote id=\"single-block_68b9e1aa26850\" class=\"single-image \">\n    <section>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" data=\"block-image\" data-id=5385292 desc=\"\" caption=\"Edward Clark\/Life Picture Collection\/Shutterstock\" title=\"Lead actress Julie Adams on the set of the movie &#039;Creature from the Black Lagoon&#039;, with the creature lurking in the background, 1953.\" src=\"https:\/\/static.life.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/04185643\/112626430-1024x661.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>\n                <div class=\"image-info\">\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">Lead actress Julie Adams on the set of the movie &#8216;Creature from the Black Lagoon&#8217;, with the creature lurking in the background, 1953.<\/p>\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">Edward Clark\/Life Picture Collection\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote id=\"single-block_68b9e24126852\" class=\"single-image \">\n    <section>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" data=\"block-image\" data-id=5385302 desc=\"\" caption=\"Edward Clark\/Life Picture Collection\/Shutterstock\" title=\"&quot;Gill Man&quot; carried actress Julie Adams on the set of the movie &#039;Creature from the Black Lagoon,&#039;  1953.\" src=\"https:\/\/static.life.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/04185722\/112626456-661x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>\n                <div class=\"image-info\">\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">&#8220;Gill Man&#8221; carried actress Julie Adams on the set of the movie &#8216;Creature from the Black Lagoon,&#8217;  1953.<\/p>\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">Edward Clark\/Life Picture Collection\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote id=\"single-block_68b9e27426855\" class=\"single-image \">\n    <section>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" data=\"block-image\" data-id=5385303 desc=\"\" caption=\"Edward Clark\/Life Picture Collection\/Shutterstock\" title=\"Actress Julia Adams is carried by &quot;Gill Man&quot;, the titular creature of the movie &quot;Creature from the Black Lagoon,&quot; 1953.\" src=\"https:\/\/static.life.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/04185725\/112626458-e1757012505389-1024x779.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>\n                <div class=\"image-info\">\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">Actress Julia Adams is carried by &#8220;Gill Man&#8221;, the titular creature of the movie &#8220;Creature from the Black Lagoon,&#8221; 1953.<\/p>\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">Edward Clark\/Life Picture Collection\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote id=\"single-block_68b9e28226856\" class=\"single-image \">\n    <section>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" data=\"block-image\" data-id=5385294 desc=\"\" caption=\"Edward Clark\/Life Picture Collection\/Shutterstock\" title=\"Actress Julia Adams is carried by Gill Man on the set of the movie Creature from the Black Lagoon, 1953\" src=\"https:\/\/static.life.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/04185650\/00979639-807x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>\n                <div class=\"image-info\">\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">Actress Julia Adams is carried by Gill Man on the set of the movie Creature from the Black Lagoon, 1953<\/p>\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">Edward Clark\/Life Picture Collection\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote id=\"single-block_68b9e25926853\" class=\"single-image \">\n    <section>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" data=\"block-image\" data-id=5385297 desc=\"\" caption=\"Edward Clark\/Life Picture Collection\/Shutterstock\" title=\"A scene from the movie &#039;Creature from the Black Lagoon&#039; 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The movie, &#8230; <a title=\"They Don&#8217;t Make Them Like This Anymore\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.life.com\/arts-entertainment\/they-dont-make-them-like-this-anymore\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":5385303,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[2611,2608,2317,2609,2610,1981],"class_list":["post-5385291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-entertainment","tag-bud-westmore","tag-creature-from-the-black-lagoon","tag-edward-clark","tag-horror-movies","tag-julia-adams","tag-movies"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>They Don&#039;t Make Them Like This Anymore - LIFE<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.life.com\/arts-entertainment\/they-dont-make-them-like-this-anymore\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"They Don&#039;t Make Them Like This Anymore - LIFE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The photos from the set of the movie Creature From the Black Lagoon are a window into the world of what monster movies looked like in the days before CGI. 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