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Dracula (Work): Bela Lugosi
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The novel Dracula wasn't a huge success until the 1931 Dracula movie starring the Hungarian Bela Lugosi (the guy in the Ed Wood movie). Dracula became firmly entrenched in the West and other places around the world.
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Frankenstein and Dracula made Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi into the Hollywood heavy-hitters of horror. And it wouldn't be until 1941 that a contender for the crown appeared. He came in the guise of Lon Chaney, Jr. playing the lead in Universal Studios new slab of monster movie madness, The Wolf Man. Based on ancient legends of shape-shifting humans who become the personification of evil curses, The Wolf Man breathed new life into horror, to say nothing of the box office. Deliciously written by Curt Siodmak and directed by George Waggoner, this dark moody vision of horror paired Chaney with Claude Reins as his stiff-necked father, Bela Lug
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Dracula sets his sights on revenge against these three young upstarts and the story unfolds over several continents and decades, never being resolved. One amusing chapter takes place in America in the early 30's as all the parties happen to attend the stage version of Dracula played by Bela Lugosi before he would go on to do the film version. Needless to say, the real Dracula is not amused by this Charlatan pretending to be him. The story continues right up through modern day and Angel's takeover of the Wolfram & Hart law firm of which Dracula is a client.
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The Balderston version of Dracula would become the basis of Universal's monumental film of 1931 starring Bela Lugosi and the Spanish-language version shot simultaneously. To turn the play into a screenplay, the Balderston text underwent further significant revision in the hands of Louis Bloomfield and Garrett Fort. That further revision (... later adapted by W. D. Richter for the 1979 remake of Dracula starring Frank Langella) was published in 1990. The Balderston version of the play remains popular and both amateur and professional companies regularly revive it.
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The 1931 film Dracula starred Béla Lugosi and was directed by Tod Browning. It is one of the most famous versions of the story and is commonly considered a horror classic. In 2000, the United States Library of Congress deemed the film "culturally significant" and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry.
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