The Immortal Count: The Life and Films of Bela LugosiUniversity Press of Kentucky, 2013 M07 24 - 560 páginas This definitive biography of the silver screen legend is “a moving, lively, witty, sad book that revives once more the long dead Count Dracula” (Kirkus Reviews). |
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... creatures , found his rarely revived films dated , his roles hackneyed , and his style corny . And so Bela Lugosi , the once - famed actor , came to be a forgotten and rather pathetic figure whose skills had been misunderstood and whose ...
... creature of night; he is a spectral being—an anomaly of our century, existing against all logic and reason. Yet he is. In contrast, the Frankenstein monster is a creature of light. He is not a product of the supernatural, but of the ...
... creatures , over the whole ant- heap ! " says Raskolnikov . What Lugosi appeals to , then , is our antisocial side , a reductio ad absurdum of our egotism . The screen Lugosi , in a peculiar sense , is a revolutionary . Like the Marx ...
... creature.” The father and stepson argue, which leads to some pushing and a punch. When Harmon calls him a “shiftless idler,” the boy throws what money he has in his pocket on the floor and stalks off, vowing to live independently. He ...
... 1800s. What Stoker did was to introduce the undying creature in his ancestral home in Eastern Europe and then bring him into the world of contemporary England. Stoker made the vampire an aristocrat. BROADWAY TO HOLLYWOOD.
Contenido
DRACULATHE FILM | |
FAME | |
THE PEAK | |
THE COMEBACK | |
THE WAR YEARS | |
THE DECLINE | |
THE FINAL YEARS | |
EPILOGUE | |
FILMOGRAPHY | |
LUGOSIS EARNINGS | |