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- The original Hollywood Dracula and Frankenstein, Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff were two middle-aged, foreign, struggling actors who became huge stars thanks to a wave of monster movie hits released by Universal Studios during the 1930s.
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Sep 14, 2021 · Fans of silver screen horror films have probably heard of a notorious rivalry between Hollywood newcomers Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff.
Feb 2, 2022 · Unenthusiastic about the idea of being typecast as a monster with no legible dialogue and a lot of makeup, Lugosi turned it down and the role went to the silent-era veteran Boris Karloff who stole the show in James Whale’s 1931 Frankenstein.
Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff are referenced in the Curtis Stigers' song "Sleeping with the Lights On", from the 1991 album Curtis Stigers. In Tim Burton's Ed Wood, Bela Lugosi is portrayed by Martin Landau, who received the 1994 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the performance.
Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi did a total of 8 films together. Here is the complete list.
- 8 Gift of Gab
- 7 The Invisible Ray
- 6 Black Friday
- 5 You'll Find Out
- 4 The Raven
- 3 The Body Snatcher
- 2 The Black Cat
- 1 Son of Frankenstein
Lugosi and Karloff had become horrifying household names by the mid-'30s, and their cameo appearances in 1934's Gift of Gab were a testament to that fact. The film told the story of a radio announcer with the titular gift who managed to irritate his co-workers at a major studio. Sadly, the movie lacked plot and humor, which is what made many great ...
1936's The Invisible Ray was an ambitious and flawed outing. The film told the story of a scientist who gained extraordinary powers from a meteorite and used his abilities to get revenge against colleagues who betrayed him. Karloff and Lugosi settled into their usual roles as adversaries in the film, and Karloff's take on Dr. Rukh proved he was the...
1940's Black Friday was one of Universal's best non-monster horror moviesof the '40s, but the disproportionate roles between Karloff and Lugosi hurt it in the end. In the movie, a scientist implanted a piece of a gangster's brain into his friend which caused the latter to begin acting like the former murderer. Carrying the film alongside his co-sta...
Horror comedy had been quite popular since the birth of horror itself, and the Karloff/Lugosi tandem was cast in 1940's You'll Find Out for their fright appeal. Far from the best horror comedy of all time, the movie followed band leader Kay Kyser after his manager booked him to perform at the eerie mansion of a mysterious heiress. Karloff was perfe...
Before the institution of a rating system, films like 1935's The Raven were shocking and hard to stomach. The gruesome tale followed an Edgar Allan Poe-obsessed surgeon, who used one of his victims to do his bidding. The creepy horror movie wasinspired by the works of Poe, but wasn't a direct adaptation of the author's writings. Instead, the film f...
After departing Universal Pictures in the early 1940s, Lugosi and Karloff were signed to make a few films for RKO Radio Pictures, including 1945's The Body Snatcher. Adapted from the Robert Louis Stevenson story of the same name, the film followed a desperate cab driver, who became a grave robber and murderer to supply cadavers for a greedy doctor....
One of the few horror movies from the '30s that should be considered scary, The Black Cat from 1934 was so much more a formulaic studio movie. The story followed a traveling couple who found themselves caught in a game of revenge between a dangerous doctor and an evil cult leader. The power in the film was perfectly balanced between Lugosi and Karl...
Although Karloff and Lugosi were best known for their roles in the Universal Classic Monster movies, 1939's Son of Frankenstein was the only time the two appeared together in one of them. The atmospheric horror filmsaw Dr. Frankenstein's son return to his ancestral home where he began to revive his father's old experiment at the behest of the evil ...
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Jul 29, 2019 · Join us as we look to compare beloved horror icons Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi in this cinema overview. In sports, great rivalries and impassioned debates over the greatest of all time are most compelling when two rivals actually face off against each other at their peak.
Nov 21, 2017 · The original Hollywood Dracula and Frankenstein, Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff were two middle-aged, foreign, struggling actors who became huge stars thanks to a wave of monster movie hits released by Universal Studios during the 1930s. This season, we discuss their parallel but very different lives
