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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... movies. Although I lived twenty-some miles out of the city, on Long Island, I was a rather feisty lad and ventured by myself via bus and then subway to see these films. At that time no one under sixteen was allowed in movie theaters ...
... movies—the first major effort was naturally one about a vampire! Amidst this High Seriousness, I persisted in my devotion to Lugosi, who remained my none-too-secret vice. In 1956, I began working on a doctorate in English and American ...
... movie books but would find only the name of his countryman Paul Lukas . Nor was he ever a popular star with housewives or with intellectually respectable audiences and seldom was he deemed newsworthy enough to be covered by the ...
... Certainly the Lugosi scientist is no sluggard. Quite rightly, Bela has been termed the meanest man in the movies, but what with some actors would be sheer villainy and nastiness is redeemed by Lugosi's passionate intensity . His cause is.
... movies to see—at least for much of the film's length—the Lugosi character revel in the free exercise of his frequently evil will. Why, sage moralists might ask, did the people go? Why did these films, roundly belittled by the critics ...
Contenido
DRACULATHE FILM | |
FAME | |
THE PEAK | |
THE COMEBACK | |
THE WAR YEARS | |
THE DECLINE | |
THE FINAL YEARS | |
EPILOGUE | |
FILMOGRAPHY | |
LUGOSIS EARNINGS | |