Fact1: Igor gives private tour to Rasmussen and investor showing them sculptures of Joan of Voltaire and favorite, Fact2: Galatalin impressed by sculptures offers to submit Igor 's work to Royal Academy, Fact3: business at museum is failing due to people 's attraction to macabre, Fact4: Worth knocks Igor leaving sculptor to die in fire, Fact5: hands and legs have been crippled in fire
Output: Ivan Igor Lionel Atwill is a sculptor who operates a wax museum in 1921 London. He gives a private tour to a friend, Dr. Rasmussen Holmes Herbert and an investor, Mr. Galatalin Claude King showing them sculptures of Joan of Arc, Voltaire, and his favorite, Marie Antoinette. Formerly a stone sculptor who did wax modeling as a hobby, he explains he turned to wax sculpting completely because he felt more satisfied that he could reproduce the warmth, flesh, and blood of life far better in wax than in cold stone. Mr. Galatalin, impressed by his sculptures, offers to submit Igors work to the Royal Academy after he returns from a trip to Egypt. Unfortunately business at the museum is failing due to peoples attraction to the macabre a nearby wax museum caters to that. Igors partner Joe Worth Edwin Maxwell proposes to burn the museum down for the insurance money of £10,000. Igor will not allow such a travesty, but Worth starts a fire anyway. Igor tries to stop him and he and Worth get into a fight. As they fight, wax masterworks are melting in the flames. Worth knocks Igor unconscious, leaving the sculptor to die in the fire. Igor survives, however, and reemerges in 1933, 12 years later, in New York City, reopening a new wax museum. His hands and legs have been badly crippled in the fire and he must rely on assistants to create his new sculptures. Meanwhile, spunky reporter Florence Dempsey Glenda Farrell, on the verge of being fired for not bringing in any worthwhile news, is sent out by her impatient editor, Jim Frank McHugh, to investigate the suicide of a model named Joan Gale Monica Bannister. During this time, a hideous monster steals the body of Joan Gale from the morgue. When investigators find that her body has been stolen, they suspect murder. The finger initially points to George Winton Gavin Gordon, son of a powerful industrialist, but after visiting him in jail, Florence thinks differently. Florences roommate is Charlotte Duncan Fay Wray, whose fiance Ralph Allen Vincent works at Igors new wax museum. While visiting the museum, Florence notices an uncanny resemblance between a wax figure of Joan of Arc and the dead model. At the same time, Igor spots Charlotte and remarks on her resemblance to his sculpture of Marie Antoinette. Igor employs a couple of shady characters: Professor Darcy Arthur Edmund Carewe, a drug addict, and Hugo Matthew Betz, a deafmute. Darcy also works for Joe Worth, now a bootlegger in the city, among whose customers is none other than Winton. While investigating an old house where Worth keeps his bootlegged alcohol, Florence discovers a monster connected with the museum, but cannot prove any connection with the disappearance of Joan Gales body. Darcy is seen running from the house and is caught by the police. When brought to the station, he eventually breaks down and admits that Igor is in fact the killer and that he has been murdering people including a missing judge whose watch was found on Darcys person, stealing their bodies, and dipping them in wax to create lifelike sculptures. Charlotte, visiting Ralph at the museum, is trapped there by Igor, who it is revealed can still walk. When Charlotte tries to get away, she pounds away at his face, breaking a wax mask that he has made of himself, to reveal that he had been horribly disfigured. He also shows her the dead body of Joe Worth, whom Darcy had been tracking down for him for some time. When she faints, he straps her onto a table, intending to douse her with molten wax and make her his lost Marie Antoinette sculpture. Florence leads the police to the museum just in time: for a man supposedly crippled by fire, Igor moves with surprising speed and agility, successfully fighting off the police, but is finally gunned down. He falls into a giant vat of wax which was intended for Charlotte. Charlotte is saved when Ralph moves away the table she is strapped to from where the wax is about to pour onto her. When Florence reports her story to her editor, Jim, he proposes to her. Having to choose between money Winton and happiness Jim, she picks the latter.