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Bela Lugosi Wire

Comprehensive News Feed for Bela Lugosi.

Results 1 - 20 of 138 in Bela Lugosi

  1. Monsters are stars of summer seriesRead the original story w/Photo

    18 hrs ago | Metromix Louisville

    ... - "Monsters: A Celebration of Horror Classics from Universal Studios" - with the 1931 movie "Dracula," starring Bela Lugosi, and the 1925 silent film "The Phantom of the Opera," with Lon Chaney as the disfigured music lover who haunts the Paris ...

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  2. Jackson, glove to be buried togetherRead the original story w/Photo

    19 hrs ago | WWLP

    ... e. The LA Times points out that other celebrities have been buried in special clothing and personal items. Actor Bela Lugosi, famous for his role as Dracula, was buried in his high-collared vampire cape.

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  3. Cover attractionRead the original story

    21 hrs ago | Hindustan Times

    ... for Dracula) as Mephistopheles in Faust; an Oxford World Classics edition showing a close-up of a caped Bela Lugosi playing the count in the 1931 movie Dracula; a Puffin (unabridged) edition showing a red-eyed, buck-toothed fellow who resembles Tom ...

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    Related Topix: Horror Movies, Short, Thriller, Mystery Movies, Drama Movies

  4. 'Nightmare' showcases dreamy actressRead the original story

    Yesterday | Post Tribune

    ... Bava's masterpiece, "Black Sunday" (1960), a movie that typed Steele as surely as the 1931 "Dracula" pigeonholed Bela Lugosi. Such titles as "The Ghost," "The She-Beast" and "The Pit and the Pendulum" (with Vincent Price) followed. Now 71, Steele ...

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  5. Vampires: 'The new James Dean' has a biteRead the original story

    Wednesday Jul 8 | The State

    ... vampire mania seems to stem from the ethereal cool and youthful sexiness with which the demons are portrayed. Bela Lugosi they are not. "The vampire is the new James Dean," said Julie Plec, the writer and executive producer of "The Vampire Diaries," ...

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  6. Review: How RiffTrax makes the epic fail of Plan 9 epic funRead the original story w/Photo

    Monday Jul 6 | SCI FI Wire

    As the horror/punk/metal/thrash band the Murderdolls sang, "You can knock on Ed Wood, but it won't do you no good." What's the point of making fun of Ed Wood's Plan 9 From Outer Space ? The movie about super-advanced aliens rising the dead - which features a posthumous performance by Bela Lugosi courtesy of Mrs.

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    Related Topix: Metal, Murderdolls, Theater, Arts

  7. Cranky Hankea s Screening Room: The Allure of the Obscure

    Friday Jul 3 | Mountain Xpress

    ... in this world who simply are not content if they are not in possession of absolutely every film in which, say, Bela Lugosi so much as showed up for a paycheck. One hopes in these cases that the buyers are at least somewhat savvy. I saw copies of the ...

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  8. 'Nightmare Castle' DVD showcases dreamy actressRead the original story

    Thursday Jul 2 | ScrippsNews

    ... Bava's masterpiece, "Black Sunday" (1960), a movie that typed Steele as surely as the 1931 "Dracula" pigeonholed Bela Lugosi. Such titles as "The Ghost," "The She-Beast" and "The Pit and the Pendulum" (with Vincent Price) followed. Now 71, Steele ...

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    Related Topix: Horror Movies, Black Sunday, Thriller, Pit and the Pendulum, Drama Movies, Action Movies, Barbara Steele

  9. Well, Everyone's Entitled To Good RepresentationRead the original story

    Thursday Jul 2 | 6-4-2

    ... video and the video about the video when Branca pitched another idea, this one to the star. Branca noted that Bela Lugosi had resolved religious misgivings about portraying Dracula by insisting on a note at the start of the film saying he was in no ...

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  10. Ex-child actor plays vampire and soldier

    Thursday Jul 2 | OhNoTheyDidnt

    ... I did my research, I re-watched movies that I've seen, like the old "Nosferatu" with Max Schreck from the '20s, Bela Lugosi's "Dracula," and Werner Herzog's "Nosferatu" from the '70s. Obviously, Eric Northman's quite a different character. But ...

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  11. Jackson chose the man who saved 'Thriller' to execute estateRead the original story w/Photo

    Thursday Jul 2 | NY Daily News

    ... video and the video about the video when Branca pitched another idea, this one to the star. Branca noted that Bela Lugosi had resolved religious misgivings about portraying Dracula by insisting on a note at the start of the film saying he was in no ...

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  12. Growing Up With Monsters by Carla Laemmle & Daniel Kinske

    Tuesday Jun 30 | Pop Syndicate

    ... ghoulies to the big screen beginning in 1931. In essence, the undead kept the studio alive. 10 years before Bela Lugosi debuted on the silver screen in his iconic role Carl had asked his brother, mother, sister-in-law and niece, Carla to move from ...

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    Related Topix: Horror Movies, Short, Thriller, Mystery Movies, Drama Movies, Music!, The Phantom of the Opera, Carla Laemmle

  13. Dracula, Frankenstein & Bride of Frankenstein

    Saturday Jun 27 | Catholic.net

    ... They starred actors who would forever personify the classic Hollywood monster movie tradition. The stars were Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff, and the films were Tod Browning's Dracula and James Whale's Frankenstein (both newly available in new DVD ...

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    Related Topix: Horror Movies, Thriller, Mystery Movies, Frankenstein, Drama Movies, Science Fiction Movies, Short, Bride of Frankenstein, Boris Karloff, Dwight Frye

  14. Caretaker M.L. Austin speaks about Aimee's Castle in Lake Elsinore.Read the original story

    Friday Jun 26 | Lake Elsinore Valley News

    ... homes of muckraking writer Upton Sinclair, evangelist and faith healer Aimee Semple McPherson and movie legends Bela Lugosi, best known for his 1931 role of 'Dracula,' and Johnny Weissmuller, who won five Olympic gold medals and one bronze medal ...

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  15. Cranky Hankea s Screening Room: Bashing at the Monster Bash

    Friday Jun 26 | Mountain Xpress

    ... who doesn't know, is an affair where folks like myself get together to debate such things as the merits of Bela Lugosi's performance as the Monster in Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man . We do this to prove to the Trekkies and Star Warvians that they ...

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  16. WSJ Publisher: Google a 'Digital Vampire'Read the original story

    Thursday Jun 25 | Screenwerk

    ... haps we should call Mr. Hinton the newspaper industry's Van Helsing to Google's Dracula. One can almost hear the Bela Lugosi or Boris Karloff accents coming out now . . .

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  17. No Vampires in Argentina

    Tuesday Jun 23 | Times-Sentinel

    "Count Dracula - Hometown: Transylvania, Special Skills: Turns into a Bat, Likes: Blood, Dislikes: Wooden Stakes." All I needed to know about Dracula was found on the back of the trading card and on the front was a familiar image of Bela Lugosi in the 1931 Universal film.

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  18. Q&A with Philip GlassRead the original story

    Monday Jun 22 | Vancouver Sun

    ... - all have benefited from Glass scores. The 71-year-old composer and pianist performs his score for the 1931 Bela Lugosi film, Dracula, on Friday at Jack Singer Concert Hall, with longtime collaborators, the Kronos Quartet. In a Herald interview ...

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  19. Cranky Hankea s Screening Room: Remakes, rethinkings, rehashingsRead the original story w/Photo

    Friday Jun 19 | Mountain Xpress

    ... that it's a very imperfect movie that wastes perhaps the strongest cast Universal ever assembled - Claude Rains, Bela Lugosi, Warren William, Patric Knowles, Ralph Bellamy - in order to showcase their new horror star, Lon Chaney Jr. It's hard, I ...

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    Related Topix: Horror Movies, The Wolf Man, Drama Movies, Benicio Del Toro, Short, Thriller, Mystery Movies, Movies, Entertainment

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    Friday Jun 19 | Local Newspapers for North Fulton and Forsyth

    ... shown for teens at the NESO Library on Friday, June 19th from 1- 3:30 p.m. in the Teen Center. 'Dracula' stars Bela Lugosi as the screen's most popular vampire. Karloff's compassionate portrayal of a creature groping for identity makes this ...

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    Related Topix: Horror Movies, Short, Thriller, Mystery Movies, Drama Movies, Frankenstein, Science Fiction Movies, Boris Karloff, Duluth, GA, Symphony, Arts