Béla Lugosi

...headless killer from the great beyond in "Sleepy Hollow," the undead love story of "Corpse Bride." In a way, Burton knows vampires too, resurrecting Bela Lugosi - the definitive cinematic Count Dracula - in the Oscar-winning biopic "Ed Wood."

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...evening. In addition to screening the Tim Burton-directed flick, screenwriters Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski, and Martin Landau, who won the supporting actor Oscar as Bela Lugosi, will chat after the movie. www.aerotheatre.com.

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...never actually met his hero Welles. Bela Lugosi Jr., has been among those who felt Wood exploited the senior Lugosi's stardom, taking advantage of the fading actor when he could not refuse any work. Most documents and interviews with other...

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...was watching the DVD commentary for Tim Burton's great film, Ed Wood, yesterday. And they brought up how Forry hated Martin Landau's profane portrayal of Lugosi. Ackerman claimed that Bela would never have used such foul language. Me, I think...

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...Tim Burton to make a movie about it, featuring Martin Landau as Lugosi. The film earned Landau an Oscar, an award Lugosi never got within sniffing distance of winning. 4. Groucho Marx, Skidoo (1968) Technically, Groucho Marx isn't the...

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...admiration rather than derision of Wood's work. The relationship between Wood and Lugosi in the script echoes closely Burton's relationship with his own idol and two-time colleague, Vincent Price. He said in an interview, "Meeting Vincent had...

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...the film in general, were played to comic effect in Ed Wood, directed by Tim Burton. Lugosi's monologue to Professor Strowksi is featured twice in the movie. The book The Golden Turkey Awards claims that Lugosi's character declares his...

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...both of them Winston and Bake, so that decision was hard," he says. "Stan worked on Edward Scissorhands and Baker did Martin Landau's makeup as Bela Lugosi in ''Ed Wood '. On his hiring, Baker explained, "I did the Dino De Laurentiis...

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...together. It's all the more fitting a topic, given that the actor now plays a vengeful Victorian-era serial killer who is filled with hateful rage after being wrongfully jailed and losing his wife and baby daughter. Moviegoers eager...

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