Lugosi: A good actor?
For the past week or so I've been re-watching many of the Charlie Chan films, and last night it was THE BLACK CAMEL. I was struck by how natural and sincere Lugosi is throughout most of his scenes. I...
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nice homage, Miss E...all anyone has to do his see him in 'Dracula' 31... says it all, and then him with the Bowery Boys in 'Spooks Run Wild' ...
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Look at a film like MOTHER RILEY MEETS THE VAMPIRE. The script is very weak, but Bela still gives it everything he's got. And he's a lot funnier than Arthur Lucan. I have long contended that one of...
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I love Bela's turn as Dr. Verdegaast, but I have no use for his performance in The Raven. The dialogue given to Dr. Vollin was even sillier than Curt Siodmak's worst moments. Perhaps with better...
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Pretty much the way I feel about THE RAVEN. Lots of folks seem to love Bela in that, but to me it seems misplaced. It's the kind of performance that you laugh at, not with. It's the kind of...
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To me, THE RAVEN just proves my point that the Miserable Hunkie was much better at playing a raving maniac than Hollywood's Greatest Swordsman. I like THE RAVEN approximately 100 times better than THE...
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Ahhhh...David Manners. If there was every ANYONE who didn't want to be an actor, it was good ol' Canadian Dave. Guess what? He got his wish!
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Eddie, not so! Have you seen him in Capra's THE MIRACLE WOMAN?-Craig
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"Sad to say, Bela was not a very good actor."Boris Karloff, quoted by Bob Thomas - source here.(Please note: I don't share the opinion quoted above, I just thought it was both interesting and relevant...
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On it's face value, that seems like a terrible thing for one colleague to say about another. However, within the context about which he is speaking, it makes a bit more sense and was probably just a...
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Gary, I follow you there, and it may be you're right. But generally, when one performer describes another as "not a very good actor," he means that in the literal sense.
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Wich2 wrote:Gary, I follow you there, and it may be you're right. But generally, when one performer describes another as "not a very good actor," he means that in the literal sense.Well, if that's the...
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I would love to find some way to deflect what Boris said, but it's pretty darn blunt. It helps a bit to figure that, if Karloff saw that in print, he probably then thought, "oh, I wish I hadn't said...
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Kind of hard to believe he said that considering Lugosi was the better actor in most of their films together. In my opinion anyway. Even in The Black Cat where Boris has the showy role Bela somehow...
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I believe that the interview Bob Thomas had in mind when putting together that particular section of the obituary was one he conducted with Karloff on the set of AIP's THE RAVEN. Although Karloff's...
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I recall another interview with Karloff-perhaps in "Castle of Frankenstein"- in which Boris described Bela as a "fine actor and a wonderful technician but he remained slightly old fashioned in his...
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. . . But could any other actor have shed off the cape of Dracula and the cloak of the mad but proud and aristocratic doctors Lugosi played to give a performance so startling different and off-beat as...
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Mora, I love Bela. As the years pass, I like his work even more even more than Boris's, which was usually solid, but sometimes a little flat compared to Bela's. But that being said, I'd answer your...
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. . . And Craig I agree with you on each one of the performers you mention. You could even add John Carradine, IMO. I fondly recall sitting with Dolores Fuller and her husband Dr. Philip Chamberlin in...
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