Illustrations 1. Siegfried Ulmer / 5 2. Henriette Ulmer / 6 3. The Ulmer children / 7 4. Edgar as a young man / 8 5. Ulmer with his host family in Sweden / 16 6. Ulmer’s calling card / 21 7. Ulmer as assistant art director at Universal / 27 8. Ulmer posing with convertible sedan on the Universal lot / 28 9. A Hollywood portrait, 1925 / 30 10. A late-Weimar double date at the lake / 38 11. Ad placed in the 1932 Film Daily Yearbook / 43 12. Ulmer, Dr. Gordon Bates, and Diane Sinclair on the set of Damaged Lives (1933) / 49 13. On the set of The Black Cat (1934) with Karloff / 59 14. Poster art for The Black Cat (1934) / 66 15. Ruth Roland in From Nine to Nine (1936) / 81 16. Shirley Ulmer as a Ukrainian extra in Natalka Poltavka (1937) / 88 17. Ulmer on the set of Fishke der krumer (1939) / 108 18. Arianné Ulmer as Yentele in Fishke der krumer (1939) / 110 ix x | Illustrations 19. Carl Gough and Ozinetta Wilcox in Moon over Harlem (1939) / 115 20. Ricardo Cortez and Jean Parker in Tomorrow We Live (1942) / 128 21. John Carradine in a publicity still from Bluebeard (1944) / 148 22. Margaret Lindsay and Nancy Coleman in Her Sister’s Secret (1946) / 163 23. Ulmer at work with his star, Hedy Lamarr, on The Strange Woman (1946) / 167 24. Tom Neal and Ann Savage in Detour (1945) / 180 25. Louis Hayward, Diana Lynn, and Zachary Scott in Ruthless (1948) / 189 26. Barbara Payton and Paul Langton in Murder Is My Beat (1955) / 199 27. Ulmer, Jascha Heifetz, and Fritz Reiner on the set of Carnegie Hall (1947) / 208 28. Richard Ney, Gypsy Rose Lee, and Paulette Goddard in Babes in Bagdad (1952) / 225 29. Arthur Kennedy and Betta St. John in The Naked Dawn (1955) / 231 30. Shirley, Edgar, and Arianné Ulmer on the set of Beyond the Time Barrier (1960) / 253 31. The ensemble cast of The Cavern (1964), celebrating Christmas / 260 32. Ulmer in 1966 with a Madonna statuette / 266.