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Six and a half years after its stage debut in England, Bram Stoker’s 1897 Gothic masterpiece received its first official screen adaptation with Bela Lugosi reprising his acclaimed stage role as Count Dracula. The film gave Lugosi the movie stardom he craved, but also cemented an unbreakable link between the actor and the character which would dog the rest of his career. Stoker’s novel was one of the first properties considered for production by Carl Laemmle when he founded Universal Pictures in 1915. Fifteen years later when Dracula was finally given the green light, it was envisaged as a lavish big budget adaptation of the novel, but financial difficulties caused by the stock market crash and the Great Depression led to the budget being severely slashed and the play being used as the basis of the film. When Dracula was re-released in 1936 several cuts were made as a result of the Motion Picture Production Code, a strictly enforced moral guideline, including an epilogue speech by Edward Van Sloan. The only known copy of this cut segment is now too deteriorated to restore to the film. A silent print of Dracula, which is currently unavailable, was produced for cinemas which had yet to convert to sound. In 2000, Dracula was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.”
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Production company: Universal Studios
Producer: Carl Laemmle, Jr.,
Associate Producer: E.M. Asher
Director: Tod Browning (some scenes by Karl Freund)
Assistant Director: Scotty R. Beal
Second Assistant Director: Herman Schlom
Script: Garrett Fort
Adapted from the play by Hamilton Deane and John L. Balderston, based on the novel Dracula by Bram Stoker
Continuity: Louis Bromfield
Additional Dialogue: Dudley Murphy
Adaptation: Louis Stevens
Treatment: Fritz Stephani
Scenario Supervisor: Charles A. Logue
Art Director: Charles D. Hall
Cinematography: Karl Freund
First Assistant Cameramen: King Gray
Second Assistant Cameramen: Frank H. Booth
Second Unit Director of Photography: Joseph Brotherton
Editor: Milton Carruth
Supervising Film Editor: Maurice Pivar
Set Designers: Herman Rosse and John Ivan Hoffman
Recording Supervisor: C. Roy Hunter
Boom Operator: Jack Bolger
Sound Mixer: William Hedgcock
Musical Supervisor & Conductor: Heinz Roemheld
Make-up: Jack P. Pierce
Set Decoration: Russell A. Gausman
Photographic Effects: Frank A Booth
Miniatures: William Davidson
Matte Artist: John P. Fulton
Costumes: Ed Ware and Vera West
Casting: Phil M. Friedman
Research: Nan Grant
Script Girl: Aileen Webster
Foley Artist: Jack Foley
Art Titles: Max Cohen
Still Photographer: Roman Freulich
Running Time: 78 minutes
Copyright number: LP1947, February 2nd 1931
Cast:
Bela Lugosi: Count Dracula
Helen Chandler: Mina
David Manners: Johnathan Harker
Dwight Frye: Renfield
Edward Van Sloan: Dr. Van Helsing
Herbert Bunston: Dr. Seward
Francis Dade: Lucy
Joan Standing: Briggs
Charles Gerrard: Martin
Moon Carroll: Maid
Josephine Velez: Grace, English nurse
Michael Visaroff: Innkeeper
Anna Bakacs: Innkeeper’s daughter
Barbara Bozoky: Innkeeper’s wife
Wyndham Standing: Surgeon
Geraldine Dvork: Dracula’s vampire bride
Dorothy Tree: Dracula’s vampire bride
Cornelia Thaw: Dracula’s vampire bride
Daisy Belmore: English coach passenger
Nicholas Bela: Transylvanian coach passenger
Carla Laemmle: Sara, the reading coach passenger
Donald Murphy: Coach passenger
John George: Van Helsing’s assistant
Tod Browning: Voice of the Harbor Master
Anita Harder: Flower girl
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Telegram from Carl Laemmle Jr., March 27, 1930
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Plattsburgh Daily Press, January, 1931
Screen Life in Hollywood by Hubbard Keavy
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Silver Screen, January 1931
A mysterious figure, a great actor, will this man replace Lon?
Is HE the Second Chaney?
HIS NAME is Bela Lugosi.
Like the beloved Lon, he is a man of mystery and a master of make-up.
He is working in movies at Universal, where Lon Chaney worked, being directed by Tod Browning, the man who directed nearly all of Lon’s greatest pictures.
His great role, “Dracula,” is that of an “undead” vampire who lives on the blood of humans, a part, that had he lived, would inevitably have gone to Chaney.
Lugosi, when first approached to make a picture of “Dracula” – he had played it on the stage – refused. Tests of other players were made. No one could be discovered who could effectively portray this supernatural character. Finally Lugosi signed for four weeks.
Before the cameras, he completed his work in one day. Again like Lon – an artist who knows his job and does it quietly and quickly.
Only in appearance does he differ. He is six feet one in height, with the dreamy, strange face of a mystic. His deep-set eyes have a peculiar fascinating quality.
Lon is gone but his art lives after him. May Lugosi be worthy of following in the path he made so thoroughly his own.
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The New York Times, February 13, 1931
THE SCREEN
Bram Stoker’s Human Vampire
By MORDAUNT HALL
Count Dracula, Bram Stoker’s human vampire, who has chilled the spines of book readers and playgoers, is now to be seen at the Roxy in a talking film directed by Tod Browning, who delights in such bloodcurdling stories. It is a production that evidently had the desired effect upon many in the audience yesterday afternoon, for there was a general outburst of applause when Dr. Van Helsing produced a little cross that caused the dreaded Dracula to fling his cloak over his head and make himself scarce.But Dracula’s evil work is not ended until Dr. Van Helsing hammers a stake through the Count’s heart as he lies in his native earth in a box.Mr. Browning is fortunate in having in the leading rôle in this eerie work, Bela Lugosi, who played the same part on the stage when it was presented here in October, 1927. What with Mr. Browning’s imaginative direction and Mr. Lugosi’s makeup and weird gestures, this picture succeeds to some extent in its grand guignol intentions.As the scenes flash by there are all sorts of queer noises, such as the cries of wolves and the hooting of owls, not to say anything of the screams of Dracula’s feminine victims, who are found with twin red marks on their white throats.The Count is able to change himself into a vampire that flies in through the window and in this guise he is supposed to be able to talk to his victims, who are either driven insane or are so thoroughly terrified that they would sooner do his bidding that pay heed to those who have their welfare at heart. Martin, the keeper in the sanitarium in which an unfortunate individual named Renfield is under supervision, fires at the big bat with a shot gun, but, of course, misses.To enhance the supernatural effect of this film there is a fog in many of the scenes. The first glimpses are of ordinary humans, but so soon as Renfield goes to the Transylvania castle of the Count, who lives on for centuries by his vampirish actions, there are bony hands protruding from boxes, rats and other animals fleeing, and corridors that are thick with cobwebs and here and there a hungry spider.Most of the excitement takes place in Carfax Abbey and other places in England, the Count having traveled there to accomplish his blood-thirsty intentions. To start the grim work he causes all the ship’s crew to go insane and commit suicide, but his subsequent activities are not as fruitful as he anticipates.Helen Chandler gives an excellent performance as one of the girls who is attacked by the “undead” Count. David Manners contributes good work. Dwight Frye does fairly well as Renfield. Herbert Bunston is a most convincing personality. Charles Gerrard affords a few laughs as Martin.This picture can at least boast of being the best of the many mystery films.Bram Stoker’s Human Vampire. DRACULA, with Bela Lugosi, Helen Chandler, David Manners, Dwight Frye, Edward Van Sloan, Herbert Bunston, Frances Dade, Charles Gerrard, Joan Standing, Moon Carroll and Josephine Velez, based on Bram Stoker’s novel, directed by Tod Browning; overture, “Rhapsody in Blue”; Movietone news real: “Hello, New York!” with Santry and Norton and others, including Leonide Masine and the Roxyettes. At the Roxy.
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Edmonton Journal, March 19, 1931
Foot Light Glow
Capitol: The strange mysterious, “Dracula” will rise and dingy in the monastery mouse to be displayed on the Capitol screen in a series of horrible almost scene-infested, out of the shadow of musty old coffin. There, live in the shadow of the night to weild for a supernatural power over the rising hum the specter of the past of the dead again, without leaving visible traces without the massacre of the devil, he is again in the mist of dawn melting. By the Bela Lugosi, powerful figure of Count Dracula, which came into effect in this dramatic picture is like that.Would you be horrified to hear that draws howls a long night? If you had a premonition about the crash is bad for you, thinking to freeze you in fear you? If you met him, what afraid of hypnosis this maniac? Alternatively, the fear of the dead 500 years ago of ARS neighbor pounces quietly and quickly to his victims – all is very real in the “Dracula”, that there is one of these grip sheet.If you serve him through his use of hypnosis, still, calm, this power TOS was afraid, to understand this great phenomenon, there is a professor of strong will and try to destroy him. Dramatic situation, he has to look at the face Dracula and horrible finally, the risk of facing with others to keep track of Dracula in his coffin in the elbow of Professor Most you he and put you, you are full of grip adventiures. . . Professor and win! You go by all means, “Dracula” will be displayed. You afraid to miss it now.Talkartoon, there is a comedy snappy “caption. You news of Fox movie tone, two days more, to” go one yard to give laugh a lot to relieve taken you from tension attituyou in order to give a contrast to the program It is very interesting that you complete the program with excellent Congress – CEB
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Reading Eagle, March 21, 1931
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Spokane Daily Chronicle, April 9, 1931
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The Evening Huronite, April 13, 1931
Dracula Is Called Most Weird StoryBran Stoker’s Famous Mystery Story Comes To Screen At Huron Tomorrow
“The weirdest story in the world” has been dramatized on the talking screen. The story in question is Bram Stoker’s immortal and nerve-tingling novel of a deathless vampire, entitled “Dracula.” So if you plan to go to the Huron theatre during the week of Sunday, Monday or Tuesday prepare yourself for a truly different and exciting evening’s entertainment.
Of course, if you’ve read “Dracula” there is no need to tell you more. All the king’s horses and all the king’s men won’t be able to keep you from seeing the picture. And if you’ve never heard of “Dracula” you owe it to yourself to see this uncanny dramatization of Bram Stoker’s justly famous novel. For “Dracula” is a mystery story unlike any other you have ever seen. And meeting “Dracula” for the first time is an experience in theatre-going you will long remember.Without telling you too much, suffice to say that “Dracula” is a story of a vampire man, dead more than five hundred years, who comes to life between the hours of sunset and sunrise, stalking the earth to search out young and beautiful victims. Sometimes he comes to life in the form of a wolf, other times as a soft, choking, mysterious mist, wreaking his strange vengeance on all those who cross his path”. This combat of deathless forces, as you may well imagine, makes for gripping, fantastic, awe inspiring drama that arouses and maintains intense interest from beginning to end.The role of the vampire. Count Dracula, is played with remarkable skill by Bela Lugosi, noted actor of the legitimate stage, who originally created this role in the highly successful stage version of Stoker’s “Dracula.” Sinister, evil and terrifying to look upon, Lugosi’s Dracula is a high mark in unusual and fantastic characterization. David Manners portrays the role of the young boy who desperately attempts to save his finance from the influence of Dracula; and Dwight Frye is convincing as the lawyer who fails under the spell of the deathless vampire.Others in the cast include Helen Chandler, in a fine role, Edward Van Sloan, a member of the stage cast, Frances Dade, Joan Standing and Herbert Bunston. “Dracula” was directed by Tow Browning, remembered for many of Lon Chaney’ssuccesses.
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La Opinion (Los Angeles), May 7, 1931
This ad for the Spanish version of Dracula mistakenly features the images of Bela Lugosi, David Manners and Helen Chandler
(Courtesy of John Donaldson)
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La Opinion (Los Angeles), May 8, 1931
This ad for the Spanish version of Dracula mistakenly features the images of Bela Lugosi and Helen Chandler
(Courtesy of John Donaldson)
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The Modern Screen, June, 1931
DRACULA (Universal) – A weird story about creatures who are “undead.” It’s thrilly and creepy. Bela Lugosi, David Manners and Helen Chandler. Very Good – but not for children.
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The Kingsport Times, June 12, 1931
Spooks Will Invade Strand Theatre Wednesday 10:30 pm
One of the most famous of all actors on stage or screen would like to forget the character that made him famous! Audiences on Broadway were thrilled for more than two years by his artistry; millions of picture fans throughout the country are being fascinated by the startling impersonation he gives on the screen. But the character haunts him, and he never wants to play it again.
The actor is Bela Lugosi, and the character is Count Dracula in the most startling of all plays or pictures — “Dracula.” Bram Stoker, the famous English novelist, wrote it first as a novel — this terrifying narration of an “undead” being who rises from his grave at night and through his horrible influence brings death and suffering to his victims.
For more than a thousand nights, Lugosi played it in the theatre. Then when the Universal Studios decided to produce the great story as a picture, Lugosi was the natural choice for the role he had made so famous on
the stage. At first, it was difficult to prevail upon him to appear on the screen. He had lived with the horrible vampire character so long on the stage that he wanted to forget, and how could he forget if he played it again on the screen?
But he finally consented, and for weeks at the Universal City studios while the picture was in production, he lived again the startling’, fantastic role of Count Dracula. Those who have seen both play and picture assert that his impersonation for the films is even greater than his stage work.But, now that the picture is finished and shortly to be shown at the Strand Theatre, Lugosi says he will nver play the role again.And Lugosi’s determination is in itself a great tribute to his ability as an actor. If he had been able to act the part mechanically —had not thrown himself heart and soul into the role—it would not have the terrors that it now has. But a great artist does not play mechanically, and Lugosi is a great artist. Thus, each night in the theatre and for .many days at the picture studios, his nervous system has been subjected to a terrible strain.“Dracula” brought him fame and fortune, but Lugosi, wants more than anything else, to escape from Count Dracula. It is well, however, that he die not reach this decision before the marking of the picture—well for the millions of fans who will be fascinated by his great work on the screen.When “Dracula” is shown at the Strand Theatre, local theatre-goers will see one of the most remarkable casts ever assembled. Besides Lugosi, two other, players of the original stage cast appear — Edward Van Sloan and Herbert Bunston. In addition, there are many other favorites, including David Manners, Helen Chandler, Dwight Frye, Francis Dade, Charles Gerrard and Joan Standing.Tod Browning, creator of weird and unusual films, directed the picture.In addition to .the feature, “Dracula,” there will be a stage show in the form of Ali-Din. Ali-Din will present a spook party featuring spirit slate writing, talking skulls and handkerchiefs taring into snakes.The admission will be the same to everyone. No half fare tickets will be sold as the program is not recommended for children under twelve. The box office opens at 10:15 — program starts at 10:45.
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Variety, July 21, 1931
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Modern Screen, August, 1931
Dracula (Universal) – A story of the souls who are dead yet not dead – “undead” they are called. They prey upon the living. A creepy and chilling story. Bela Lugosi, Helen Chandler and David Manners have the chief roles. Very good but hardly suitable for children.
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Bela Lugosi by Joseph Grant for the Los Angeles Record, 1931
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Wallace County Chronicle and Otautau Standard (New Zealand), July 1932
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Picture Show Annual 1932
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Posters
1931 Twenty-Four Sheet (original in full colour)
1931 One Sheet
1931 One Sheet
1931 One Sheet
1931 Three Sheet (original in full colour)
1931 Three Sheet (original in full colour)
1931 22″ x 28″ Poster
1931 Six Sheet (original in full colour)
1931 Window Card
1931 3’x10′ Banner
(original in purple, silver and green -metallic letters on felt background)
1931 Three Sheet Block
1938 Re-Release One Sheet
1947 Re-Release One Sheet
1947 Re-Release Insert
1947 Re-Release Three Sheet
1951 Re-Release One Sheet
1951 Re-Release Half Sheet
1951 Re-Release Insert
1951 Re-Release Banner
French Poster date unknown
1960 Re-Release One Sheet
French 1966 Re-Release Grande
Spanish 1971 Re-Release One Sheet
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Lobby Cards
Jumbo lobby card
1931 Lobby Cards
1938 Re-Release Lobby Cards
1947 Re-Release Lobby Cards
1951 Re-Release Lobby Cards
Mexican Lobby Cards (Date Unknown)
1960s Mexican Lobby Cards
The lobby card below mistakenly features a scene from Universal’s 1931 Spanish language version of Dracula
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Publicity Stills
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British Front of House Cards
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The card below mistakenly features a scene from Universal’s1931 Spanish language version of Dracula
1951 Re-Release
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Roxy Cinema Advertising
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Heralds
5.5″ x 7″ Herald
8″ x 10.5″ Herald
Prince’s Theatre Herald
Spanish Heralds
Singapore Herald
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Cinema Programmes
The Roxy Theatre, New York
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The Capitol, Bombay, India
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Pressbooks
1931 Pressbook
1937 Pressbook
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A promotional packet of wolfbane
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Photoplay Edition of Dracula
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A letter from Universal President Carl Laemmle to a fan of Dracula
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Cinemas
The Stanley, Jersey City
Kentucky Theatre, Lexington
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Stills
Tod Browning filming Frances Dade and Helen Chandler
Bela Lugosi
Edward Van Sloan (Courtesy of David J. Skal)
Helen Chandler (Courtesy of David J. Skal)
Helen Chandler and Frances Dade (Courtesy of David J. Skal)
Bela Lugosi
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Edward Van Sloan and Bela Lugosi (Courtesy of Paul Seiler)
Edward Van Sloan and Bela Lugosi
Bela Lugosi
Bela Lugosi
Bela Lugosi, Helen Chandler and Tod Browning
Tod Browning, Bela Lugosi, Horace Liveright, and Dudley Murphy
Edward Van Sloan, David Manners, Helen Chandler and Bela Lugosi
Bela Lugosi, David Manners, Helen Chandler, Dwight Frye and Edward Van Sloan
Bela Lugosi, David Manners, Helen Chandler, Dwight Frye and Edward Van Sloan
Helen Chandler and Bela Lugosi (Courtesy of Paul Seiler)
Frances Dade and Bela Lugosi
Frances Dade and Bela Lugosi
Helen Chandler and Bela Lugosi
Helen Chandler and Bela Lugosi
Helen Chandler, Bela Lugosi and Dwight Frye
Helen Chandler, Bela Lugosi and Dwight Frye
Dwight Frye
Bela Lugosi
Geraldine Dvorak, Dorothy Tree and Cornelia Thaw
Bela Lugosi and Dwight Frye
Bela Lugosi in a scene deleted from the final cut
Bela Lugosi in a trick shot which didn’t appear in the film
Bela Lugosi
Dwight Frye and Bela Lugosi
Dorothy Tree, Geraldine Dvorak and Cornelia Thaw
Dorothy Tree, Geraldine Dvorak and Cornelia Thaw
Bela Lugosi is rumoured to be one of the seated medical students in this scene
(Courtesy of David J. Skal)
Bela Lugosi
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Bela Lugosi and Frances Dade
Bela Lugosi and unidentified extra
Frances Dade and Bela Lugosi
Bela Lugosi and Helen Chandler
Bela Lugosi and Helen Chandler
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Edward Van Sloan and Bela Lugosi
Edward Van Sloan and Bela Lugosi
Edward Van Sloan and Bela Lugosi
Helen Chandler and David Manners
Helen Chandler and David Manners
Bela Lugosi and Helen Chandler
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Bela Lugosi and Helen Chandler on a portion of the set which didn’t appear in the final cut of the film.
Bela Lugosi and Helen Chandler on a portion of the set which didn’t appear in the final cut of the film.
Bela Lugosi and Helen Chandler
Bela Lugosi and Dwight Fyre
Helen Chandler, Bela Lugosi and Dwight Fyre
David Manners, Helen Chandler and Edward Van Sloan
Edward Van Sloan delivering his epilogue speech. Cut upon Dracula’s re-release in 1936, the surviving footage is now too deteriorated to reinstall into the film.
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Click on the link below for details of the 1938 Dracula and Frankenstein double-bill
