1958. Directed by Gene Fowler Jr. TAGLINES : "Shuddery things from beyond the stars, here to breed with human women!" "The bride wore terror!" - Aliens arrive on Earth to possess the bodies of humans. One of their first victims is a young man, whose new wife soon realizes something is wrong with him. In Norrisville, Bill Farrell leaves his bachelor party on the eve of his marriage with Marge Bradley. He is abducted by an alien that takes his shape and marries Marge on the next day. Marge feels something strange with Bill and one year later she realizes that he is a totally different man. One day, Marge follows Bill and he goes to the woods; she finds that he is an alien and sees his spacecraft. She tries to tell to Washington and to the FBI, but the aliens have dominated key people in town that do not allow any sort of communication with the exterior world. What is the intention of the alien invasion? Max, the bartender, was played by former professional boxer Maxie Rosenbloom (best known as "Slapsie Maxie" Rosenbloom). In the1950s, he owned his own nightclub. For over 35 years, he was a very popular character actor in motion pictures (features and shorts), radio and television. CAST includes Tom Tryon, Gloria Talbott, Peter Baldwin, Robert Ivers, Valerie Allen, Ken Lynch, John Eldredge, Ty Hardin, Maxie Rosenbloom. BEHIND THE SCENES TRIVIA : The brilliant visual effects (absorbing cloud, glowing costumes, transformations, ray gun beams, etc) were created and developed by John P. Fulton, a pioneer in matte photography and trick shots. He brought to life "The Invisible Man" in 1933 but his most famous cinematic achievement is the iconic parting of the Red Sea in Cecil B. De Mille's spectacular 1956 epic "The Ten Commandments" for which Fulton won the Oscar for Best Special Effects just before he began working on this film. This was an in-house Paramount production. It was intended to be released at the top of a pre-packaged double feature. Paramount had acquired a negative pickup of a low budget independent production, that had the benefit of being in color, to fill out the bottom of the double feature. In test screenings and early releases, it was discovered that there was more audience interest in the second feature. As a result, the second feature was given more of the promotional budget and made the leading feature. The original second feature, "The Blob" (1958) has become an icon of low budget 1950s science fiction while this feature has become almost forgotten today. The widely ridiculed title of this film is almost certainly lifted - with tongue in cheek - from "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet" TV series. At the beginning of "Harriet's Secret Admirer," which first aired on May 25, 1956, more than two years before the film was released, Ricky mentions to Harriet that he would like to see a movie called "I Married a Monster from Outer Space." He describes it as "sort of a science-fiction musical" and says it features a novelty song named "Disintegrate Me, Baby, with Your Cosmic Ray" that is sung by a three-headed space monster to a giant amoeba. So, barring a wild coincidence, Paramount's idiotic but highly memorable title is the result of mischievous borrowing.