When people think of Dracula, they often imagine a suave, aristocratic vampire. But in the 1922 silent film Nosferatu, he's renamed Count Orlok and has an entirely different, grotesque appearance.
Bela Lugosi, who made his mark as Dracula in Hollywood, insisted to reporters he battled a crippling addiction to drugs for over two decades — but one author claimed he “deliberately ...
But the storied setting of the acclaimed 1931 work "Spanish Dracula," the "rediscovered classic film," is a tantalizing ... a recent renaissance, and many now hail it as the superior version." ...
Shocking in its time, the movie made Dracula a fixture of popular culture ... "It's quite surreal now to be standing next to a picture inspired by three of the characters in the story," said ...
Cremer said Lugosi was exploited by film studios. At the end of his life, the actor felt he had been forgotten. "Lillian told me that after he starred in ‘Dracula' [in 1931], he began appearing ...