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From: Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales)
Date: 20050913
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Byline: By BRIAN LEE

The early 1922 silent film version of Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula, which was called Nosferatu, has spurned many vampire remakes over the years. Perhaps best known was the 1931 movie Dracula which gave Bela Lugosi, who played Count Dracula his first Hollywood starring role.

Lugosi was one of Hollywood's most intriguing and tragic early stars. Born BAla Ferenc Dezso Blasku in 1882 in Transylvania, he emigrated to the United States in 1921 after serving in the First World War.

He became re-involved in the theatre within the Hungarian- American ...

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