Jan 6, 2024
Michael Visaroff as The Innkeeper in Dracula (1931)
Watercolors on Paper, 8.5" x 11", 2024
By Josh Ryals
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Michael Visaroff as The Innkeeper in Dracula (1931)
Watercolors on Paper, 8.5" x 11", 2024
By Josh Ryals
The Nickel-Hopper 1926
Partially written by Stan Laurel and Hal Roach, produced by Hal and directed by F. Richard Yates who also directed THE EXTRA GIRL (1923) this is a fabulously funny film. What a cast! Mabel Normand as the title character, a girl who works in a nickel-a-dance dive. She is described by a title card as “A girl who chased the bluebird of happiness but never caught a feather.” Her good for nothing…
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Actor Michael Visaroff (right), who played (mostly uncredited, unfortunately) in a number of classic horror films - Dracula (1931), Freaks (1932), Murders In the Rue Morgue (1933). Both Dracula and Freaks were directed by Tod Browning, who would again cast - and finally credit - Visaroff in his 1935 vampire film (with Bela Lugosi), Mark of the Vampire, itself a "talkie" remake of his now-lost silent film, London After Midnight, starring Universal's first choice to play Dracula, Lon Chaney Sr.