Mr Dracula – On Béla Lugosi
Mr Dracula – On Béla Lugosi

Summary/Abstract: It is a long way from Transylvania to Hollywood. Béla Lugosi began as an uneducated extra and anonymous Hungarian bon vivant, but ended up as a Hollywood legend, writing film history as one of the world’s great mythmakers and horror movie stars. He played an immortal role, gave it his own face, demeanour and Hungarian identity – a character so petrified in permanence that he never succeeded in stepping out of Dracula’s coffin. He was a famous monster, a creature highly sought-after by the industry, running the gamut of evil and psychopathy, and dying on-screen in every imaginable way. He was the go-to actor for the personification of the dark genres. It was a pigeonholed character that he eventually considered a prison house, but paradoxically it guaranteed the survival of his worldwide fame among movie lovers.

• Details
• Contents