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("FILE 770") "BENEATH THE CAPE: THE LIFE OF BELA LUGOSI"
REMEMBERING "THE COUNT" ... BELA LUGOSI ... ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF HIS BIRTH ... OCTOBER 20TH, 1882 - AUGUST 16TH, 1956)
Lugosi. The very name struck palpable terror into the hearts of film goers throughout the nineteen thirties. With his iconic voice, hypnotic gaze, and nightmarish persona, Lugosi became the very embodiment of vampiric decadence and mortal decay. A fallen aristocrat, the Transylvanian Count was the symbolic reflection of sexual repression and the abduction of innocence.
Like the haunted character whom he most famously portrayed, Bela Lugosi has long ago passed both into memory and legend. Born Béla Ferenc Dezső Blaskó on October 20th, 1882, no single individual has ever been as closely or indelibly associated with Bram stoker's immortal "Dracula" as this aristocratic, ultimately tragic Hungarian actor.
Here, then, is my affectionate remembrance of Bela Lugosi ... his "horrific" career ascension, as well as its poignant decline ... as we remember The Man Beneath Dracula's "Cape," waving ever nobly within the fertile winds of time.
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Steve Vertlieb
("FILE 770") "BENEATH THE CAPE: THE LIFE OF BELA LUGOSI"
REMEMBERING "THE COUNT" ... BELA LUGOSI ... ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF HIS BIRTH ... OCTOBER 20TH, 1882 - AUGUST 16TH, 1956)
Lugosi. The very name struck palpable terror into the hearts of film goers throughout the nineteen thirties. With his iconic voice, hypnotic gaze, and nightmarish persona, Lugosi became the very embodiment of vampiric decadence and mortal decay. A fallen aristocrat, the Transylvanian Count was the symbolic reflection of sexual repression and the abduction of innocence.
Like the haunted character whom he most famously portrayed, Bela Lugosi has long ago passed both into memory and legend. Born Béla Ferenc Dezső Blaskó on October 20th, 1882, no single individual has ever been as closely or indelibly associated with Bram stoker's immortal "Dracula" as this aristocratic, ultimately tragic Hungarian actor.
Here, then, is my affectionate remembrance of Bela Lugosi ... his "horrific" career ascension, as well as its poignant decline ... as we remember The Man Beneath Dracula's "Cape," waving ever nobly within the fertile winds of time.
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Steve Vertlieb
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