The Immortal Count: The Life and Films of Bela LugosiUniversity Press of Kentucky, 2013 M07 24 - 560 páginas Bela Lugosi won immediate fame for his portrayal of the immortal count in the 1931 film Dracula. After a decade of trying vainly to broaden his range and secure parts to challenge his acting abilities, Lugosi resigned himself to a career as the world's most recognizable vampire. His last years were spent as a forgotten and rather tragic figure. When he died in 1956, Lugosi could not have known that vindication of his talent would come—his face would adorn theaters, his image would appear on greeting cards and postage stamps, his film memorabilia would sell for more than he earned in his entire career, and his Hungarian accent would be instantly recognized by millions of people. Martin Landau's Oscar-winning role as Lugosi in the 1994 film Ed Wood added an ironic twist to a career that had ended in oblivion. In 1974, devoted Lugosi fan Arthur Lennig published a highly regarded biography of the unsung actor. More than twice the length of the original and completely rewritten, The Immortal Count provides deeper insights into Lugosi's films and personality. Drawing upon personal interviews, studio memos, shooting scripts, research in Romania and Hungary, and his own recollections, Lennig has written the definitive account of Lugosi's tragic life. |
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... Universal “Jewel” that was being filmed in the daytime in New York. Released in June 1928, this farce concerns an inventive cartoonist who helps the bankrupt Prince Hendryx of Volgaria to get a loan on his country's peanut crop to ...
... Universal, and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Browning naturally had a sympathy for the carnival world as well as a somewhat morbid nature, which he probably tried to assuage with heavy drinking. His fascination with the grotesque resulted in a ...
... Universal studios, Lugosi's fellow Hungarian, Paul Fejos, was finishing directing Conrad Veidt in The Last Performance (1929), which a title card described as “a tale of three passions—love, desire, and hate.” At this time in the early ...
... Universal, the complicated and sometimes contradictory desires of the owners of the copyrights of the play and novel of Dracula, and the ramifications of what was proving to be a worldwide Depression. On April 28, 1929, the five-foot ...
... Universal's general. True, he may not have been the best commander, but generally his decisions were more right than wrong. Without him there would have been no Dracula or Frankenstein, no horror cycle that soon followed at Universal ...
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PHOTOGRAPHS | 103 |
5 DRACULATHE FILM | 103 |
6 FAME | 133 |
7 THE PEAK | 183 |
9 THE WAR YEARS | 283 |
10 THE DECLINE | 349 |
11 THE FINAL YEARS | 415 |
EPILOGUE | 53 |
FILMOGRAPHY | 67 |
LUGOSIS EARNINGS | 91 |
NOTES | 93 |
INDEX | 127 |