Showing posts with label Bela Lugosi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bela Lugosi. Show all posts

Monday, June 13, 2022

Reflections of the Way Life (or the Undead) Used to Be

 
 

Basil Rathbone examines Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff in this publicity still from 1939's The Son of Frankenstein. If that wasn't spooky enough, that very same year Rathbone had to contend with a Baskervilles hound!

Thursday, August 8, 2019

Quips and Quotations (Hungarian in Hollywood Edition)

 



He always said that if he hadn't had an accent, he wouldn't have been typecast in pictures. But if he hadn't had an accent, he wouldn't have become a star by being cast as Dracula!

--Basil Rathbone





Saturday, February 9, 2013

Typecasting?


 
Actor Bela Lugosi as Jesus Christ in a 1909 Passion play.
 
In 1931, Lugosi would play yet another character who rose from the grave.