Dracula's (Grand) Daughter - Lynne Lugosi Sparks
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- Опубліковано 6 жов 2024
- Lynne Lugosi Sparks, granddaughter of Dracula's Bela Lugosi and countess of Lugosi Enterprises sits down to chat about her family's legacy, growing up Lugosi, partying with the Karloffs, and whether Bela ever drank... wine.
Along the way we spend some time geeking out on Bauhaus, Tim Burton movies, the early days of SAG, Dracula vs Orlock, 1931 Spanish vs 1931 English, and Lugosi vs Universal Pictures.
For more info on Lugosi Enterprises and licensed products, visit:
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For more reading on Lugosi vs Universal Pictures:
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Bela in Dracula, 1931 (gotta pay to see)
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Bela in White Zombie, 1932 (free HD):
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Special Thanks to Lugosi Enterprises for some of the hard-to-find imagery used in this video. Also big acknowledgment to the two underrated bands who's music you hear in this edit: Forever Autumn and The Bonecollectors, both covering "Bela Lugosi's Dead" by Bauhaus.
One thing that is rarely mentioned in terms of Lugosi's success as Dracula is that he was incredibly handsome mixed with a personal magnetism that the camera loved. You can never take your eyes off Lugosi in any film that he appears in(even in heavy make up that obscures his looks). He also was a very very good actor like Karloff, both of whom are often underrated as performers and talked about only in terms of the characters they played.
He definitely had something that commanded attention. It’s hard to look at anyone else in a scene!
You are completely drawn to him. It's his intensity!
It's that time of the year again: if you'd like, join me now, as we celebrate Bela Lugosi Jr.'s birthday today, Jan 5. Video set to premiere in less than 3 hours! (No Bela content in this one, but I made plenty throughout the years.)
YES,I have always thought that Bela Lugosi' s Dracula,was very sensual,seductive,romantic.Mr.Lugosi's portrayal of Dracula,I think,was the BEST.
@Sotzume, you're correct in your observation about both Bela and Karloff. I enjoyed Karloff in The Old Dark House movie. I enjoyed Bela Lugosi's Dracula. 😊
Bela was the best Dracula ever! He also played Armond Tesla which was actually Dracula for Columbia and did a superb job also.
He was the mold
Return of the Vampire is an excellent film.You get a werewolf,too!
Bela Lugosi also played the vampire in the 1940's movie The Return Of The Vampire !.
I can't thank you enough for this! I respect Lugosi for his ability to give his all no matter what kind of role he was given to play. In this time now, actors come and go in a flash, he is much different. He gave us something intangible that is impossible to forget!
And yet he had to struggle for much of his life. I’m glad that he can get his due now, even if a little late.
So interesting! Bela was born to play Dracula! Tall dark handsome debonair charismatic and a gentleman! No one wears a tuxedo like Bela. To me Ed Wood is an insult to Bela. I really hope his beautiful granddaughter puts together this project. I wish Bela Lugosi was alive today to see how loved and respected he truly is. In addition, wouldn't it be awesome to have videos of the actual play starring Bela as Count Dracula 😊🙏❤❤🧛♂️🕯🕯
I wish! How great to have films of his stage version?
@@toothpickings9218 I've heard women fainted watching the stage version. If only we could turn back the hands of time and be in the audience!
@@karenhummel49 I also heard some of them were plants 😂😂. The nurse on duty in the lobby was definitely a publicity stunt. Effective, though!
The film Ed Wood is actually a 🎉very kind telling of the life of Bela Lugosi, at least of his final years.
The real life Lugosi was a different story. He was a tremendously selfish and entitled individual who sabotaged his career and life. In addition, he was an abusive husband and an absentee father. All that seemed to matter to him was the satisfaction of his very large and very fragile ego.
I wish his fans would stop denying the many unpleasant facts about his life but I guess that's what fans do.
@@karenhummel49if time travel was possible, I'd love being down front so I could enjoy the Dracula play. Bela is charismatic no matter the role. 😊
Great interview, My Grand Father came from a town near Lugos. The family was a part of the old nobility from the region
No kidding? What do they think of the association between Vlad Tepes and Count Dracula?
@@toothpickings9218 Highly fictionalized
@@michaelwuchitech7598 Well sure. I guess I mean, did they hate the association or lean in to it?
Great interview, glad she brought up those old Crestwood books because that’s exactly how I discovered Dracula and all those other Universal Monsters. We 70’s kids absolutely loved them!
It seems like every generation finds them differently. Some through Famous Monsters, some through Monster Mash, some through Ed Wood and Bauhaus... I suspect a fair number found them through Scooby Doo 😂
Charles Dance would make a great Bela Lugosi in a biopic.
Very true
Neat. I found out some things I didn't know. It would have been neat if Bela Lugosi could have played Dracula a few more times for Universal.
Agreed. He did so much with the character!
My great uncle James Wong Howe worked with Bela Lugosi in two films in the 1930s. Chandu the Magician and Mark of the Vampire.
I've never seen Chandu but Mark has wonderful visuals! Much recognition to your great uncle for making that film so atmospheric!
Thanks for this excellent episode. I learned a lot. Your choice of stills and clips added much value
Thank you! Necessity lead to invention in this case, but I'm glad it did!
Thank you for this interview! I enjoyed hearing Lynne speaking about her grandfather. The clips and photos were nice touch. I enjoy hearing more about the real person behind the star and image.
I always say about Bela Lugosi that “he can stop by my place, & bite my neck any time”. He is one of the most handsome & compelling actors ever up on the screen.
Bela Lugosi forever!! 🙋♀️🥂🍷🌹
He’s certainly my Dracula
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Great interview and so glad you’ve captured it for posterity!!
I enjoyed this interview but I found the small Dracula figure hung upside down over the baby Jesus tasteless and offensive. Christmas is about the birth of Jesus and what was he thinking. The song Bela Lugosi is dead is also done in poor taste. She's really good and so is he with the interview.
Brian, this series has been fantastic, and quite frankly, something I've looked forward to every day of the pandemic. Thanks for all the time and effort you've put into it, and I look forward to the next season. Good luck on the other ventures!
Thank you Sean! I'm so glad you've gotten something out of this. With any luck, when and if there's a return for another season, it'll be to a world that has a vaccine! Stay safe!
This is a great interview! I know that Crestwood Dracula book she mentions. I used to check it out constantly during grade school. If a book had Dracula or vampires in it, I'd read it! Other than another friend of mine from elementary school, we loved old vampire movies. However, all we seen on those Saturday afternoon "Creature Features" were Hammer films with Christopher Lee. The Hammer series is excellent. It wouldn't be until 2004 when I finally found a vhs copy of Bela Lugosi's 1931 Dracula and enjoyed seeing him on screen after decades of searching for that very film.
I'm quite the Bela Lugosi fan now as an adult partly due to when I was growing up, I wasn't sure if the Dracula movie was even around. (As a kid, I had erroneously thought London After Midnight starring Lon Chaney existed, which it's a lost silent film still to this day).
What captivated my interest to Bela Lugosi is the way he portrayed Dracula. He's a debonair, old worldly "aristocrat" type at first, but there's that hidden element of danger just the same.
Bela as Dracula embodied the 'tall, dark, and handsome' and did so extremely well.
Bela as Dracula likely took the repressed Victorian woman's Decorum from that era, then merged it with the overlap of the Roaring Twenties and with the onset of the Great Depression of the 1930's gave movie audiences food for thought. And given the times (On the eve of the Hays Pre-Code Hollywood), the film debuted at just the right time and place. True, Bela would be haunted by being typecast as "Dracula". However, he'd become a legend, immortal like the Dracula he worked hard to bring from the stage to that of the silver screen.
I love that finding a copy of Dracula on vhs was a lifelong quest. He really set a standard!
Ralph Fiennes could play a good Bela Lugosi, very similar facial structure, in my humble opinion of course.
I agree, there’s something similar in their look
I reckon so.
This interview was so engaging. I didn't mind the technical problem. I'm a subscriber now
Good job!
Thanks! The technical issue was a happy accident, I suppose, since it made me actually be an editor rather than just let the interview play out haha
Bela Lugosi was my first celebrity crush 😅 honestly this is awesome! I had no idea He even had a granddaughter and didn't know a lot of this information. I think Bella Lugosi was the beginning of my vampire obsession for life 🦇
Better with the added photos, memorabilia....Good job making it work...Love Bela...
Thanks! I was aghast when I first realized that the system hadn't recorded Lynn's video, but it forced me to edit together something better than I would have otherwise. Making lemonade!
A good sequel to the original Dracula is Fred Saberhagen's "The Dracula Tape", which is Dracula's rebuttal to the book Dracula and the events depicted in it
Very fun book.
What a great & insightful interview
She was so great wasn’t she?
@@toothpickings9218 So so great. Felt like listening to Lugosi himself
Lovely interview, and I'm pleased to be introduced to your channel and your interesting content!
Thank you! More coming soon!
How did you get into contact with her? I was wanting to interview her myself.
It’s been a while and I don’t recall exactly- I do remember trying a lot of different roads before making contact. I just can’t recall which was the one that got attention.
Very special, there was never any other.
Agreed! Defined the role forever
For some reason I felt like when she Wasn’t moving on screen I thought of puppeteers that don’t move there lips
Such a nice interview
Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! He never had fangs. How have I never realized this? 😮 My whole life is a lie 😂
It's a fun bit of trivia to break out at parties ;)
@@toothpickings9218 for real!
I never really understood why Bela Lugosi's son and granddaughter do use the name Lugosi. It actually wasn't Bela's real name but just his stage name, and stage names normally are not inherited. At least that's how it is here in Germany.
I'm going to plead a little bit of ignorance here, but Bela used that name legally as well, didn't he? Not just on stage?
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How many siblings does she have?
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