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Bela Lugosi's Personal Newspaper
Clipping Scrapbook From His Collection
Location # HR
Amazing piece of movie history from the man who created the modern
version of Count Dracula. In 1931, Bela Lugosi played Dracula in the
1931 Universal film based on Bram Stoker's novel. Lugosi's
interpretation of the role of the blood thirsty count has become the
standard for many other versions. In Stoker's book, Count Dracula was a
dead, smelly, walking corpse. Lugosi made the character into a master
of mind control, able to seduce women with his piercing eyes. Ask any young
boy to talk like Dracula, and he will imitate Lugosi's Hungarian accent.
This newspaper clipping scrapbook was owned by Bela Lugosi. The
newspaper clippings are marked with red numbers, suggesting he purchased
them from a clipping service, then he and his wife, Lillian, glued them
into the scrapbook. Also included in the scrapbook are Lugosi's personal
copies of his movie pressbooks and theater programs. The scrapbook has
been authenticated by Lugosi authors and scholars Gary Rhodes and Arthur
Lenig. The history of the scrapbook: After Lugosi passed away, Hope, his
last wife, gave it to Richard Sheffield, the boy who befriended Lugosi
during his final years. While attending Forry Ackerman's auction in the
1980's, Richard added this scrapbook and another to the auction line up.
Comes with a LOA from the auction bidder, email correspondence with
Richard Sheffield, and letters from Arthur Lenig and Gary Rhodes
verifying authenticity and thanking me for allowing access to the
information for both of their books. The scrapbook is visible in a photo
of Lugosi's home. Movies covered in the scrapbook: Black Camel, White
Zombie, Frankenstein, Murders in the Rue Morgue and more. Click
here for an article I wrote about the scrapbook.
$5000
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