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Bela lugosi, hungarianborn motionpicture actor who was most famous for his sinister portrayal of the elegantly mannered vampire count dracula. The lugosi estate has announced that bela lugosi will star in a brand new horror comic called bram. Historian john mcelwee reports, in his 20 book showmen, sell it hot. Threeact plays, vaudeville sketches, variety shows, and personal appearances are all chronicled at length, bringing new perspective. Rhodes and bill kaffenberger, bela lugosi in person brims with new facts,figures, and neverseen photos documenting the actors scores of live public performances from 1931 to 1945, the era of his greatest fame. Rhodes and bill kaffenberger, is jampacked with rare information about bela s career outside of the movies. Threeact plays, vaudeville sketches, variety shows, and personal appearances are all chronicled at length. I felt i could actually hear the voices of the people mank interviewed. Rhodes has been writing books on bela lugosi for a generation but. Open library is an initiative of the internet archive, a 501c3 nonprofit, building a digital library of internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. He originated the role on broadway in 1927 and reprised it for the 1931 film. Rhodes and bill kaffenberger, bela lugosi in person brims with new facts, figures, and neverseen photos documenting the actors scores of live public performances from 1931 to 1945, the era of his greatest fame. Threeact plays, vaudeville sketches, variety shows, and personal appearances are all. In early 1940s hollywood, writes robert guffey, you had to go out of your way to descend any lower than monogram studios.
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Fields by himself, written byrather, one should saycompiled with commentary by. Lugosi was an actor known best for his role as dracula in the 1931 film of the same name, though he went on to star in many horror films like murders in the rue morgue 1932. The latest in a series of books by researchers extraordinaire gary d. Bela lugosi played a pivotal role in the modern mythology and rich legend of the iconic count dracula. The expanded story of a haunting collaboration, with a complete. Bela lugosi in person captures the life of a fading star. Its more than a biography of lugosi from about 1930 to the end of world war ii, its a. Rhodes and bill kaffenberger, bela lugosi in person brims with new facts and figures documenting the actors scores of live public performances from 1931 to 1945, the era of his greatest fame. In his most recent book, bela lugosi in person, rhodes works with coauthor bill kaffenberger to produce one of the most thorough actor biographies this writer has read in the last 50 years. My book contains new documentation which may change some peoples minds about belas political affiliations. It also gives a glimpse into the life of stars in the 1930s and 1940s, when making live appearances at theaters and events was as much a part of their lives as appearing before the camera. Bela dracula lugosi in person vista theatre poster.
Rhodes and bill kaffenberger, bela lugosi in person brims with new facts,figures, and neverseen photos documenting the actors scores of live public performances from 1931 to 1945, the era of. Lugosi enterprises is proud to associate the bela lugosi brand with quality products. Bela lugosi in dracula the ghostly figure of bela lugosi can still be seen taking his favourite constitutional walk along hollywood and vine. Bela ferenc dezso blasko known professionally as bela lugosi was a hungarianamerican. The expanded story of a haunting collaboration, with a complete filmography of their films together. He was born in lugos, transylvania, austriahungary now lugoj, romania or the kingdom of hungary, the youngest of four children of a banker. Bela lugosi in person kindle edition by kaffenberger, william, rhodes, gary, croft, ann. They say his mother, lillian, dressed him up like a girl throughout his early childhood until people started making comments about it. Bela lugosi in person bearmanor media, 2015 details the stage and appearances lugosi made from his time as the vampire on broadway to roughly the end of world war ii. Neither was she part of his vaudeville tour of late 1933 on the east coast, in which he performed scenes from dracula, that we dealt with in bela lugosi in person. Rhodes and bill kaffenberger, bela lugosi in person brims with new facts, figures, and neverseen photos documenting the actors scores of live public performances from 1931 to. Bela lugosi returns as the vampire prince in new dracula comic book b.
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