Bela Lugosi's Dead

[RCMerchant]

^ I saw Joan Jett and the Blackhearts at the Cass County fair in 1987!
The stage was some stacked pallets. Me and my buddy Sam were so close to her we could have touched her.
The music they played over the loud speaker while they were setting up was the Sex Pistols! 

[Allhallowsday]

UPDATE!

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"...To die...!  To really be dead...!"

[RCMerchant]

Bela's death certificate.

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http://youtu.be/o_N-H_5Pvu8 

[RCMerchant]

https://findadeath.com/bela-lugosi/

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http://youtu.be/o_N-H_5Pvu8  

That's still one of the creepiest scenes I have ever seen.  Of ANY movie !

[RCMerchant]

Lugosi in an early Hungarian film- 1918.

[Svengoolie 3]

http://youtu.be/o_N-H_5Pvu8  

That's still one of the creepiest scenes I have ever seen.  Of ANY movie !

I've  heard that the Spanish version was in some ways better than the English because it used some gear still regarded as experimental back then. This scene,  in the Spanish version I think it used a long flying dolly system to make one long shot sweeping all the way from he door to dracula's face.

[RCMerchant]

http://youtu.be/o_N-H_5Pvu8  

That's still one of the creepiest scenes I have ever seen.  Of ANY movie !

I've  heard that the Spanish version was in some ways better than the English because it used some gear still regarded as experimental back then. This scene,  in the Spanish version I think it used a long flying dolly system to make one long shot sweeping all the way from he door to dracula's face.

Yeah. I heard that too.
I seen the Spanish version. Only one problem. It can be technically better.
But without Lugosi? It's like spaghetti without sauce.
And of course Dwight Frye!

[Svengoolie 3]

Yeah RC, but you may undervalue Edward sloane's contribution to the movie.



Every villain needs a hero to foil with.

[RCMerchant]

^ Not at all. But any old actor could have done the role just as well. He wasn't a star by any means.

And oh -hate to be a nit-picker- but it's Edward VAN Sloan. That's like calling Van Gough  just Gough.

[RCMerchant]

Among the few who attended Bela's funeral were Mr. and Mrs. Tor Johnson, Ed Wood Jr. and his wife Kathy, his then current wife Hope, his wife and mother of his son Lillian, Bela Jr., and Wood's usual entourage of stars Dudley Manlove, Conrad Brooks, and Paul Marco. Future Famous Monsters editor Forrest J. Ackerman and MARK OF THE VAMPIRE actress Carroll Borland  and
Bela's agent Don Marlowe were also there.
As was his teenage friend and fan who helped him and kept him company in his final years,  Richard Sheffield who photographed Bela in his coffin.

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It's odd that Lugosi is advertised in this 1929 film fan magazine for the then-unmade movie DRACULA, which considered Conrad Veidt and Ian Keith before Lugosi!