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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... never had an important part in a " great " picture . Dracula had no intellectual patina during his lifetime for there was as yet no such phenomenon as " popular culture . " A fan of Lugosi might check the indexes of movie books but ...
... never bland. When he is on the screen, the film comes alive, and when he is not, the film generally becomes a species of the “undead.” Dracula and Frankenstein (1931) were the first sound horror films, and two of the most successful ...
... never gave me a chance . " In a sense they never did . Except for his portrayal of Ygor , in Son of Frankenstein ( 1939 ) and The Ghost of Frankenstein ( 1942 ) , and for a few minor comic roles , he was never able to escape playing ...
... never get any true passion. The mad doctor's main goal is to carry out his experiments. In Murders in the Rue Morgue, he sacrifices women in order to mix their blood with that of an ape, and so prove evolution. In White Zombie, the ...
... never an intellectual and cultured person on the screen. Those who did appear were included strictly for satirical purposes, such as Edward Everett Horton's absentminded, fuddy-duddy professor in Lost Horizon (1937). Everyone was ...
Contenido
DRACULATHE FILM | |
FAME | |
THE PEAK | |
THE COMEBACK | |
THE WAR YEARS | |
THE DECLINE | |
THE FINAL YEARS | |
EPILOGUE | |
FILMOGRAPHY | |
LUGOSIS EARNINGS | |