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[belalugosi1882]

A young Bela Lugosi (circa 1923)

[scarletsmiles]

Lugosi and Walt Disney’s Fantasia (1940)

During the making of Fantasia (1940), Bela Lugosi auditioned for the animation of the demon lord Chernabog. In an unfortunate twist the role was credited to director Wilfred Jackson, but according to Walt Disney himself (*see above image), Lugosi’s tapes were used as reference. It was an unethical and underhanded decision, however much more expensive Bela Lugosi’s asking pay may have been. But, I am grateful for what remains: Bela’s movements animating the fearsome Chernabog. The gestures are a thousand percent his. One photo exists of Lugosi’s audition.

The part of that movie The Night on Bald Mountain had always been one my favorite since childhood, although it also terrified me.

Taken from the Facebook group A Celebration of the Life and Art of Bela Lugosi; I highly recommend this group.

[lunaotic]

Eternal winter - Lunaotic If you would like to support me - KoFi

[sanctus-ingenium]

what if it's not me? / print

[mournfulroses]

Albert Camus, from a journal entry featured in American Journals, published in 1978

[scarletsmiles]

Bela Lugosi in the late 1920s or early 1930s, as Dracula.

[shisasan]

And the most maddening thing of all is that tomorrow, for no reason at all, I may be as happy as I am sorrowful today.

August 26, 1925 Journals of Anais Nin 1923-1927 [volume 3]

[sincerelykarlosi]

We love you forever, Bela.

Oct. 20th, 1882 - Aug. 16th, 1956

[poison-interior]

White Zombie

[mournfulroses]

Savannah Brown, from a poem titled "Girl knees! This is what I've become," featured in Closer Baby Closer: Poems

[nixscriptum]

we wrote it all by midnight. ( ☾ )

[thecollectibles]

In the Air by Artem Chebokha

[aqua-regia009]

El juego del bosque (Detail), oil painting — Guillermo Lorca (Chilean, b.1984)

[sackedaw]

31 Days of Horror: White Zombie (1932)

Before we get through with this thing we may uncover sins that even the devil would be ashamed of.

[charnel-grounds]

George Burr MacAnnan, Robert Frazer, Frederick Peters, and Bela Lugosi in White Zombie (1932)

[death-is-whimsical-t0day-deacti]

[gabitzart]

They're stupid