Bela Lugosi Interview (1951)

Local journalist Jack Mangan interviews legend Bela Lugosi as the latter relaxes on the RMS Queen Elisabeth...

The year is 1951, and horror icon Lugosi has had a long and storied career...arriving in the United States after shooting the low-budget comedy "Vampire Over London" aka "Mother Riley Meets the Vampire", the actor seems to have come to terms with a lifetime of typecasting-indeed, he seems rather grateful that he was in a comedy for a change. Lugosi speaks frankly about his career, typecasting and all, mentions wanting to play Cyrano de Bergerac and mentions a few details of his early plays in Hungary ( if only someone had filmed them for us!). Sadly, the interview was timed by the National Television Guild for just over 4 minutes-one has the impression that Lugosi could easily have gone on for longer...

This interview remained in the NTG Archives for decades (escaping the destruction through recording over the footage that was often the fate of such short features) and is once again available for public consumption by Lugosi fans...B&W, Sound.

BTW, sorry for the increasing delay between Postings-i'm currently working 60+ hours a week with two jobs and had a minor issue with the PC...i'll try to Post a bit more often.