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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... live to relish his becoming an icon, but it is gratifying to know that the passion and sincerity and emotion he placed in his performances have been recognized, and that now he resides permanently in a shrine reserved for those who ...
... live in Karloff's shadow. It has often been said that Lugosi was a personality first, an actor second. He would not have been pleased with this judgment and would counter, “Well, they never gave me a chance.” In a sense they never did ...
... live in a mere house. Even so, no dwelling of his is ever without a cellar, a symbolic underworld where he can carry out his experiments. Usually, his mad doctors are a dedicated lot interested in philosophical, metaphysical, or ...
... live in submission and have no right to transgress the laws, because . . . they are ordinary. And the extraordinary ... lives life on a cosmic plane, not in the mundane world. He does not care what his neighbors think. In fact, if he had ...
... live on and unknowingly affect the lives of those who knew him in his last years—as well as those not yet born. The number of his fans did not dwindle as death carried the older ones away, for television brought the almost forgotten ...
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15 | |
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75 | |
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 |