116: Bela and the Vampires (Bela & Boris Part 2)

You Must Remember This

Karina Longworth

Tv & Film

4.6 • 15.7K Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2017

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

With Dracula (1931), Bela Lugosi instantly became the first horror star of sound cinema. It’s not easy being a trailblazer, and Bela would have difficulty capitalizing on his newfound stardom. In this episode we’ll discuss how Dracula made him, and trapped him, and trace the subsequent vampire roles that became his bread and butter.

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0:00.0	T�ai-t�ai-t�ai-tbeda-tzedai-t chatter
0:07.5	Okay? So...
0:10.3	It's just a durchgrip!
0:14.6	ィ
0:15.0	Welcome to another episode of You Must Remember This, the podcast dedicated to exploring
0:37.3	the secret and or forgotten histories of Hollywood's first century, part of the Panoply
0:45.9	Network.
0:46.9	On your host, Karina Longworth, and this is another installment in our ongoing series,
0:56.5	for me, And for this weekend, I have a great job annty, a good story,
1:23.0	Have I been saved?
1:25.0	She hate me.
1:27.0	Like others.
1:29.0	A race of atomic Superman, which will conquer the world.
1:37.0	The phone is dead.
1:40.0	Even the phone is dead.
1:43.0	We belong dead.
1:53.0	Last week, we introduced you to Beila Legosi and Boris Karloff.
1:59.0	This week, we're going to go deep on Legosi.
2:05.0	When last we left him, Beila was a struggling immigrant on the wrong side of his 40th birthday, with few prospects for Stardom.
2:15.0	And then, he was invited to play the vampire, who would define the rest of his career,
2:22.0	and his life.
2:24.0	Today, we're going to focus on Beila Legosi as Dracula, and in other vampire roles that came to him over the course of the next 20 years,
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