Godzilla, at 70: A history of nips and tucks, but no Botox for now
CHICAGO — Seventy years ago, “Godzilla, King of the Monsters!” debuted in Chicago theaters as half of a double bill with a Roger Corman prison flick, “Swamp Women.” Infamously, the movie had undergone an extensive face-lift between its Japanese premiere in 1954 and its landfall in the United States two years later: A pair of independent production companies purchased the American rights on an ...