#Lugosi Béla

[faustiandevil]

New 4-issue comic series featuring Universal Monsters’ Dracula in collaboration with Skybound Entertainment coming this Halloween.

[classicfilmblr]

Béla Lugosi and Boris Karloff The Black Cat (1934) dir. Edgar G. Ulmer

[old-hollywood-smash-or-pass]

Requested by @spacepunksupreme

[thinkingimages]

Lugosi Dracula image from 1931. (From an album author David J. Skal had access to)

[gothicretro]

My favourite thing about Béla Lugosi is that he was a loud and proud anti-fascist. Enough said.

[vero-niche]

yet another example of "please google the names of your ocs in case they mean something else in another language". this dude stepped out all confident and declared his name to be pussy (in hungarian)

[scarletsmiles]

Hey lovely Lugosi freaks, I uncovered something cool on our guy.

He wore this smoking jacket with a moon and star motif in The Raven (1935). I thought it was quite pretty, so I remembered it.

Lugosi must have thought it looked good too, because this jacket appears his films all the way back to Hungary. It’s no movie prop; it must’ve his own piece that he kept almost 20 years and brought across the ocean.

It’s a little surprising, as he is said to have owned almost nothing else other than his WW1 Hungarian lieutenant’s uniform when he emigrated to America in 1922.

Lugosi in Küzdelem a Létért (The Leopard), a 1918 Hungarian silent film.

In Daughter of the Night, or Der Tanz auf dem Vulkan ‘The Dance on the Volcano’ (1920), a German silent film.

Finally, The Raven (1935), an American film:

Aside from me wanting to do the girl-steals-a-guy’s-hoodie-thing to a man in the 1930’s, I thought it was a neat little fact about Béla.

[draculasnightshift]

Béla Lugosi as Benedict Hisston in The Silent Command (1923)

[trans-corvo]

last exam of my bachelors degree is done, all I have left is my thesis defense, which I'm actually really excited for because I've been waiting a year to have a good in depth conversation about early 20th century Hungarian history, but have the good sense to know that no one else in my life wants to talk about that for an hour straight. Sure it'll be with people trying to pick my argument apart, but a. none of them actually specialize in Hungarian history, and b. I feel like I handled the colloquium presentation and questions pretty well.

Anyway, I'm going to be proud of myself for this because I spent most of my childhood thinking I was stupid, was a C average student in in K-12, and believed that post secondary was utterly beyond my capabilities. I've always loved history but I never really thought I'd be able to study it, so the fact I'm about to graduate (with honours!) and will be going on to do my masters this fall is literally more than I ever dreamed.

[mysticum-draconis]

Happy birthday to Béla Lugosi!

This is a portrait of Béla that I did for his birthday last year, a significant improvement of the very first portrait of him I did of him the year before.

I was very pleased with how he came out, except for his hair, which looks a bit streaky (probably because I did it in HB mechanical pencil instead of a softer, darker pencil like I should have done). I had been going for something a bit more realistic, though.

I did my best to copy his signature for his name at the bottom ✏️

2B and HB graphite and mechanical pencils and Lyra aquarelles on 160 gsm paper.

Process photos below cut.

Please don’t use or post on other websites without credit or permission, thanks 🙏

[faustiandevil]

Wanted to post about this for a while now, but I came across the trailer for this short animation (the full animation is not available online sadly) about Béla Lugosi. It’s apparently only 15 minutes long, but shows him from early childhood, hitting important landmarks in his early career right up to filming Dracula.

As a fan of Béla bá I love it, but as an artist I do gotta say… it do be not looking like him…

Anyway here he is in the animation as Dracula:

[sharks-in-boots]

I like how Gray pets his cat while killing someone

[carloskaplan]

Béla Lugosi

[gonnaeatyourgirlfriend]

watched drakula (1931) and let me tell you, life is worth dying for again !

[doubtfultaste]

Son of Frankenstein (1939)

[atropalugosi]

also this is so far outta left field but it's important to me. got lotsa new mutuals and friends lately and with how often my name is mispronounced by new people, i figured i'll just give y'all the phonetic reading so you can say it properly in your heads when you see my posts <3

loo-go-shee