YOU ASKED FOR IT starring Bela Lugosi

Bela Lugosi appears in a rare TV episode where he performs magic. It gives us a glimpse into what it must have been like to see him touring in his horror magic show. He also discusses, then, upcoming projects that would never be.

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• Bela Lugosi
• Vintage TV
• Horror
• Vampire
• Art Baker
• You Asked For It
• Dracula
• Bat
• Magic

[don4321]

Don't know what year this is from (early/mid 1950s?), but if Miss Harriet Fraiser--the lady in the peanut butter jar--"has recently missed his unusual roles", then she didn't get to see the likes of "Bride of the Monster", "Glen or Glenda" or "Old Mother Riley Meets Dracula". Maybe she caught "Plan 9" a few years later? Poor Bela, he deserved better in the end...

[VampireOverLondon]

@don4321 Broadcast lists July 27th, 1953. "Mother Riley Meets the Vampire" didn't receive a U.S. release until 1963 or 1964. It was under the title "My Son the Vampire." As for "Glen or Glenda," that was a very limited release.

[kolchack55]

There will never be another like him. Thanks for posting this.

[VampireOverLondon]

I couldn't agree more.

[banner74]

@kolchack55 Absolutely,the only other Dracula on par with him is,of course,Sir Christopher Lee.

[VampireOverLondon]

@banner74 I always thought Louis Jourdan did an outstanding job. And I enjoyed Frank Langella too.

[Heavymetalpunker92x]

to be honest he is exremely hot but i think he was gettin hotter when he got older, i have always liked older gentlemen.

and i dreamed once that bela lugosi killed edward cullen omg i wish it was true, that dream was so fantastic :D

im a 17 year old girl and i love old school vampires and i hate the modern world

even tho true blood is ok show, but still im stuck in the past.

I hate twillight and i tend to feel that i am alone (of the girls)

[snakes3425]

@xtrmsprts

You wouldn't be too far from the truth, part of him despised being typecast as a horror movie villain. Many of his performances were Oscar worthy, it's sad to think that he ended what should've been a brilliant stage and screen career in the Ed Wood Movies, despite being in the three worst films ever made Lugosi still was able to die happy, knowing he was back on the screen and doing what he loved. He died holding a script in his hand, an actor and artist to the end

[snakes3425]

@Heavymetalpunker92x

Bela Lugosi was born to play Dracula and he went out of his way to make Dracula look and act like a civilized gentelman while preserving that aura of pure evil, tragically he played the role too well and it typecast him

[vampira9]

Hahaha

[vampira9]

Hahaha

[vampira9]

Hahaha

[luis6079]

Unfortunately, the two "Upcoming films" Bela mentions are both unproduced Ed Wood projects. Poor, poor Mr. Lugosi...

[xtrmsprts]

Poor bela, he had no money so he had to do this type cast vampire shit all his life. Imagine, the beatles after 40 years still wearing black suits and with dyed moptops, wrinkles and all, singing she loves you... ugh. im sure part of him hated doing this vampire stuff to the depth of his soul

[JoeCavy4]

Sam Waterson (Law and Order DA) looks like Bela Lugosi

[ziggycat999]

This is the best TV appearance of Bela I've seen! The production values for a TV show are on par to a Hollywood movie. Most of Bela's other television appearances were pretty lackluster. Although Lugosi played the character most of his life,for legal reasons,was only called Count Dracula in only two movies. "Dracula" and " A&C Meet Frankenstein". Catch his disclaimer near the end of this video.

[Impowers]

Lugosi was the greatest Dracula, and actually from Transylvania. Christopher Lee's version is merely an accountant in a cape by comparison. This clip is so bizarre I'm at a loss for words.