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Beatrice Weeks Weeks era una actriz de teatro que trabajó con Lugosi en varias producciones teatrales y películas, incluyendo la versión original de "Drácula" en Broadway. Se cree que la relación entre Weeks y Lugosi comenzó mientras trabajaban juntos en el teatro y se mantuvo en secreto debido a que ambos estaban casados en ese momento.
- Early Life
- The Role of Dracula
- Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff
- Later Career
- Personal Life
- Legacy
- Sources
Bela Blasko, the youngest of four children, was born on October 20, 1882 in the city of Lugos, Hungary (now Lugoj, Romania). Blasko dropped out of school at age 12 and began his acting career in 1901. He adopted the stage name Lugosi, which was inspired by the name of his hometown, in 1903. Lugosi acted in regional theater productions for several y...
After arriving in the U.S., Lugosi first found work as a laborer. However, he soon traveled to New York City and began acting in a touring stock company with fellow Hungarian actors. Lugosi appeared on Broadway in 1922 in the play The Red Poppy and took several roles in silent films, including 1923's The Silent Command. Lugosi's breakthrough role c...
Bela Lugosi tried but failed to avoid being typecast in horror roles. In 1934, he co-starred in The Black Cat with Boris Karloff, best-known for portraying the monster in Frankenstein. Lugosi and Karloff became an iconic pair and went on to appear in seven films together. Their final co-starring movie was 1945's The Body Snatcher. Conflicting stori...
By the late 1930s, Bela Lugosi's acting career was in decline. However, he experienced a revival in popularity when a California theater showed Dracula and Frankenstein as a double feature. Audiences flocked to the screenings, and soon other movie theaters followed the example. Lugosi frequently appeared in person to speak to the audience. The rene...
Bela Lugosi married five times. He first wed Ilona Szmik in 1917. They divorced in 1920, reportedly over political conflicts with her parents. In 1921, he married Ilona von Montagh, whom he divorced in 1924. Lugosi's third wife was San Francisco socialite Beatrice Weeks, the widow of famed architect Charles Peter Weeks. They were wed in 1929 and di...
Countless films feature the character of Count Dracula, but Bela Lugosi's performance set the standard for the role. The 1931 film has been selected for preservation by the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress due to its cultural significance. The American Film Institute listed Lugosi's Count Dracula as #33 on their list of Top 100 Her...
Don Rhodes, Gary. Lugosi. His Life in Films, on Stage, and in the Hearts of Horror Lovers.McFarland, 1997.Rhodes, Gary, and Bill Kaffenberger. No Traveler Returns - The Lost Years of Bela Lugosi. BearManor Media, 2016.r/horror. • 12 yr. ago. andobi. Whatever Happened To Beatrice Weeks? The Unhappy Story of the Third Mrs. Bela Lugosi by Frank J. Dello Stritto. Film historian Frank J Dello Stritto explores Bela Lugosi's wild four-day marriage to roaring '20s rich widowed socialite, Beatrice Weeks and his affair with "It Girl" Clara Bow. http ...
Beatrice Woodruff Weeks. Birth. 13 Mar 1897. Manhattan, New York County, New York, USA. Death. 21 May 1931 (aged 34) Colón, Distrito de Colón, Colón, Panama. Burial. Mountain View Cemetery. Oakland, Alameda County, California, USA Add to Map. Plot. Mausoleum, Columbarium, Section 47 Tier 3, niche at left. Memorial ID. 153033277. · View Source.
15 de oct. de 2019 · In 1929, Lugosi got himself wrapped up in a real Hollywood scandal. He’d married the rich widow of a famous architect, Beatrice Weeks—but it only ended in disappointment and death. After a few months, Weeks realized that Lugosi was not the Prince Charming of her dreams.
About Beatrice Lugosi/Weeks. http://beladraculalugosi.wordpress.com/2012/03/28/whatever-happened... In 1929, Bela Lugosi took his place in Hollywood society and scandal when he married wealthy San Francisco widow Beatrice Weeks, but she filed for divorce four months later. Weeks cited actress Clara Bow as the "other woman"
3 de feb. de 2023 · According to Classic Monsters, his third bride was the wealthy widow, Beatrice Weeks, who grew so enraged over his flirtation with "It Girl" Clara Bow that she dissolved the union after only three months.
