Lugosi
Americannoun
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Lugosi, who had first played the Count onstage in 1927, kept the cape after filming and continued wearing it for stage and public appearances until his death in 1956.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
She incorporates films as seemingly irrelevant but surprisingly apropos as the Bela Lugosi horror movie “The Black Cat” and an Astaire-Rogers musical.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 7, 2026
He explains as a child he'd seen the Hungarian-American actor Bela Lugosi do the same when playing Count Dracula in the 1931 movie.
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2025
Bela Lugosi, the star of Dracula, served on the Russian front and was wounded three times, surviving one attack by burrowing beneath a pile of the corpses of his friends.
From Slate ● Oct. 31, 2024
Mary Alice had been hoping for a Shirley Temple, but it was a Dracula, not too old, starring Bela Lugosi I have to say, it got to me.
From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck
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