From Dracula to Bacon
It’s the first of the month and time for another round of Six Degrees of Bacon.
October already! Where has the year gone? It’s nearly Halloween.
Which is why this month’s movie calendar poster is that old school horror film "Dracula," starring Bela Lugosi.
When I first saw this month’s poster, I was worried because the only co-stars I could think of for Bela Lugosi were Ed Wood, Jr. and Vampyra. Getting either of them from “Plan 9 From Outer Space” to a Kevin Bacon film seemed impossible.
But then I remembered following the success of "Dracula" and "Frankenstein," there was a flurry of horror star match ups. So my Bacon streak continues.
I was surprised to learn that Lugosi was not the first choice for the role. Not only had he enjoyed a successful run starring in the stage version of “Dracula,” (based on the book by Bram Stoker) he was born in Hungary not far from Count Dracula’s own Transylvania. His accent was the real deal. It’s quite possible that I could be trying to connect Paul Muni, Joseph Schildkraut, John Wray, or Arthur Edmund Carewe to Kevin Bacon instead of the legendary Bela Lugosi.
The film was a hit, and in the 1930s, Lugosi was cast in a string of Universal produced horror movies. Then midway through the decade his career began its slow decline toward the Ed Wood, Jr. D-minus movies. Universal management changed its management and because of a British ban on horror movies, they were dropped from production. The thick Hungarian accent that worked so well for him in “Dracula” limited his roles in other films. And there was his famous drug addiction.
He continued to make personal appearances and did stage shows like “Arsenic and Old Lace” and “Dracula,” and also in the Ed Wood movies near the end of his life. But he was never the big star he’d been in the 1930s. He died of a heart attack in 1956.
All right, let’s start with Bela Lugosi,
Who was in “The Raven” with Boris Karloff
Who was in “The Bride of Frankenstein” with Elsa Lanchester
Who was in “Murder by Death” with Maggie Smith
Who was in “California Suite” with Michael Caine
Who was in “The Man Who Would Be King” with Sean Connery
Who was in “The Name of the Rose” with Christian Slater
Who was in “Murder in the First” with KEVIN BACON!!!!!!!!
If anyone has any other ways to Bacon, feel free to share them.
Judy Nichols is the author of several mysteries available on Amazon.
October already! Where has the year gone? It’s nearly Halloween.
Which is why this month’s movie calendar poster is that old school horror film "Dracula," starring Bela Lugosi.
When I first saw this month’s poster, I was worried because the only co-stars I could think of for Bela Lugosi were Ed Wood, Jr. and Vampyra. Getting either of them from “Plan 9 From Outer Space” to a Kevin Bacon film seemed impossible.
But then I remembered following the success of "Dracula" and "Frankenstein," there was a flurry of horror star match ups. So my Bacon streak continues.
I was surprised to learn that Lugosi was not the first choice for the role. Not only had he enjoyed a successful run starring in the stage version of “Dracula,” (based on the book by Bram Stoker) he was born in Hungary not far from Count Dracula’s own Transylvania. His accent was the real deal. It’s quite possible that I could be trying to connect Paul Muni, Joseph Schildkraut, John Wray, or Arthur Edmund Carewe to Kevin Bacon instead of the legendary Bela Lugosi.
The film was a hit, and in the 1930s, Lugosi was cast in a string of Universal produced horror movies. Then midway through the decade his career began its slow decline toward the Ed Wood, Jr. D-minus movies. Universal management changed its management and because of a British ban on horror movies, they were dropped from production. The thick Hungarian accent that worked so well for him in “Dracula” limited his roles in other films. And there was his famous drug addiction.
He continued to make personal appearances and did stage shows like “Arsenic and Old Lace” and “Dracula,” and also in the Ed Wood movies near the end of his life. But he was never the big star he’d been in the 1930s. He died of a heart attack in 1956.
All right, let’s start with Bela Lugosi,
Who was in “The Raven” with Boris Karloff
Who was in “The Bride of Frankenstein” with Elsa Lanchester
Who was in “Murder by Death” with Maggie Smith
Who was in “California Suite” with Michael Caine
Who was in “The Man Who Would Be King” with Sean Connery
Who was in “The Name of the Rose” with Christian Slater
Who was in “Murder in the First” with KEVIN BACON!!!!!!!!
If anyone has any other ways to Bacon, feel free to share them.
Judy Nichols is the author of several mysteries available on Amazon.
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