Grief Encounter

The doctor was charming and cute
And talked her right out of her suit.
So Henry she craved,
But then Hyde enslaved
And locked her up tight, the big brute.

Donald B. Benson

Miriam Hopkins as Ivy Pearson and Fredric March as both Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Rouben Mamoulian; 1931).

Beware the Hyde of March

This creature is looking to fight
You'll receive his left hook or his right
Or a blow from his stick,
A below-the-belt kick,
Orr from teeth sharp and crooked, a bite.

Miriam Hopkins, Fredric March, and (possibly) Robert Adair in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Rouben Mamoulian; 1931). Beware the title by David Cairns.

Hyde and Shriek

From his side you might wish to escape
If you tried he'd turn vicious, the ape
And the fact is, you're stuck
With the black-hearted schmuck
Tick off Hyde, you'll be squished like a grape.

Fredric March and Miriam Hopkins in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Rouben Mamoulian; 1931). Title and assist by shrieking violet David Cairns, of Shadowplay.

Promiscuous Unbound

Doc's future's contained in this beaker
A brew that when drained makes him weaker
Divided in two,
Ed Hyde will debut:
A ghoulish, profane pleasure seeker.

Cheers! Here's to Fredric March in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Rouben Mamoulian; 1931). Title by the not-vacuous Donald B. Benson.

The Bogie Man

Like Getafix, comic-book Druid,
He's mixing a magical fluid.
Convinced it will cure
His instincts impure,
But soon it's "Here's looking at you, Id!"

Donald B. Benson




Top: Dr. Jekyll (Fredric March) tinkers in his lab: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Rouben Mamoulian; 1931). Above: Getafix , a character in the Asterix comics, a venerable druid of the village, creator and keeper of the secret magic potion.

Hyde-Entity Crisis

Inside of this blue-blooded gent
Resides you-know-who he must vent
To high culture he's bred
But the vulture sees red
And by Hyde into two Jekyll's rent.  

Fredric March is both Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Rouben Mamoulian; 1931). Title by David Cairns, cool in a crisis.

Raw Hyde

His smile hides his sundered persona
He defiles everyone like a Jonah
He's unsafe: for example
A waif he will trample
He runs wild, making London Pamplona.

David Cairns with Surly Hack

Fredric March is both Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931).

Prince Charmless

To get kissed he won't chat with a skirt 
For a tryst doesn't flatter or flirt 
There's no sweeping off feet
When this creep starts to heat
This Mister, the rat, does her dirt.

Fredric March and Miriam Hopkins in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Rouben Mamoulian; 1931). Title by princely Donald B. Benson.

Assaulter Ego

There once was a man, or else two
He had fun quaffing rancid homebrew
With his split personality
He'd commit immorality
A grunting, big-fanged bugaboo.

David Cairns

Muriel Carew (Rose Hobart) is threatened by Edward Hyde (Fredric March), the alter ego of her fiancée, in a still from Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Rouben Mamoulian; 1931).

Me, Myself and Hyde

There's my medical side, upper crust
But embedded inside me hides lust
Just taking this drink
Will make me a fink
And your head, open wide, I will bust.

Surly Hack and Donald B. Benson

Fredric March is Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Rouben Mamoulian; 1931).

Hideous Stinky

Hyde's features are freakily sagging
His teeth on your cheekbones keep snagging
His breath's wet and foul
Like death's fetid bowel
You'd shriek but you're too busy gagging.

Ivy Pearson (Miriam Hopkins) is repulsed by the advances of Edward Hyde (Fredric March) in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Rouben Mamoulian; 1931).

Just Vile About Hairy

 

Hyde's ugly and brutal and coarse
A thug, he gets cuties by force
He gropes and he presses
In hopes she undresses
His hugs too hirsute to endorse.

Fredric March as Edward Hyde and Miriam Hopkins as Ivy Pearson in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Rouben Mamoulian; 1931). Donald B. Benson just came up with the title.

Alter Ego Maniac

Henry's hiding a psyche insidious
In his mind, monkey-like and invidious
It breaks out in a storm
And takes over his form
A sneering, snide, psycho, so hideous.

David Cairns

Fredric March is divided between  Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Rouben Mamoulian; 1931).

Twisted Mister

 

He's atrocious, a lewd, rotten feller
Quite gauche, like a spoon skewed by Geller
But what lights his short fuse
Isn't nights filled with booze
But a potion he brewed in his cellar.

David Cairns

Edward Hyde (Fredric March), the darker half of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Rouben Mamoulian; 1931).

Numb Waiter

 

Do not watch this customer sip

In hope that he'll muster a tip.

This silk-hatted creep

Is more than just cheap.

He's thinking of busting your lip.
 

Donald B. Benson

Edward Hyde (Fredric March) intimidates the waiter (John Rogers) at the music hall in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Rouben Mamoulian; 1931). 

One For the Rogue

This lout thinks all morals are trite
Stays out until four and gets tight 
Too rowdy and rude,
So loud and so lewd,
He's about half the floor show tonight.

Surly Hack and Donald B. Benson

Edward Hyde (Fredric March) visits the music hall in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Rouben Mamoulian; 1931). John Rogers plays the waiter.

Hydebound

It's men Ivy's keen to attract
And with Henry she means to be sacked
But his shadow will follow
(A gross cad! No Apollo!)
In the end with that demon she's shacked.
 
Miriam Hopkins is Ivy Pearson, caught between Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Rouben Mamoulian; 1931). These days a clever title is bound to be the work of Donald B. Benson.

Monster Masher

When roping this fine feathered floozy
Hyde's opening line is a doozy
Many shillings he'll pay
If she's willing to play
She's no dope, but declines to be choosey.  

Music hall entertainer Ivy Pearson (Miriam Hopkins) accepts an indecent proposal from Edward Hyde (Fredric March) in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Rouben Mamoulian; 1931). Donald B. Benson created the monstrous title.

Hyde By Side

The routine of we "win some and lose some"
Ain't the scene with this skin-sharing twosome
For these two are a crowd
And no future's allowed
When one's mean, and the pin-up for "gruesome."

Fredric March stars as both Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Rouben Mamoulian; 1931). Title by sidesplitting David Cairns, of Shadowplay.

Ogre Exposure

 Says Ivy to Hyde "You should know, sir
I never 'ave eyed nothin' grosser."
Says the clever cad, "Miss,
Then you've never spied THIS!"
And grinning with pride he then shows her.

Donald B. Benson

Fredric March as Edward Hyde and Miriam Hopkins as Ivy Pearson in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Rouben Mamoulian; 1931).

The Lighter Hyde

For felonies Hyde should be banned.
But what of offenses more bland?
At cards does he cheat?
Or stay in his seat
On streetcars while old ladies stand?

Donald B. Benson

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Rouben Mamoulian; 1931). Fredric March as Edward Hyde, on the outside looking in.