Béla Lugosi

...else to chew on - some highlights, and lowlights, about the ways vampires have been portrayed in pop culture over the years. With Bela Lugosi in the starring role of "Dracula" in 1931, Hollywood created a blueprint for how to sell vampires...

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...-- remains the screen's scariest bloodsucker. Kim Ok-vin stars in the Korean vampire romp "Thirst." The count who counts most is Bela Lugosi, the Hungarian who had the role on stage before doning cape and formal attire for Tod Browning's...

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...libido; when they drink blood they're not just quenching their thirst. Witness Dracula's three comely brides in the classic 1931 Bela Lugosi movie. "That sexual connection has been there from early on in vampire stories," says Sean...

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...Long: In honor of "New Moon," and in case you didn't catch it elsewhere on the site, my list of bloodsucking faves: Count Dracula (Bela Lugosi) from … Continued Chris McCosky: I would be surprised if the Wings weren't given an explanation...

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...such as Transvestite, I Led Two Lives, and He or She?. Wood's next project was a proposed TV series called Dr. Acula, to star Lugosi as an investigator into the supernatural. When this fell through, he directed and produced the...

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Other cast members included Bill Murray, Vincent D'Onofrio (who contributed a striking cameo as Orson Welles), and the late Martin Landau, who won an Academy Award for his touching portrayal of the has-been horror star Bela Lugosi. "Ed...

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...D. Wood, Jr. The film concerns the period in Wood's life when he made his best-known films as well as his relationship with actor Bela Lugosi, played by Martin Landau. Sarah Jessica Parker, Patricia Arquette, Jeffrey Jones, Lisa Marie , and...

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The American production starred Bela Lugosi in his first major English-speaking role, with Edward Van Sloan as Van Helsing; both actors reprised their roles in the 1931 film version , which drew on the Deane-Balderston play. In...

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...- his power to seduce women - is first hinted at in F.W. Murnau's "Nosferatu" (1922) and again in "Dracula" from 1931, starring Bela Lugosi, in which the count cast a hypnotic spell over both Mina and her friend Lucy. By the time of John...

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...Pictures. The film stars George Sanders as Simon Templar, a.k.a. "The Saint", a master criminal turned crime-fighter, and features horror film legend Bela Lugosi as "The Partner". This was one of a series of films based upon the character...

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