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| Above, a photo of Bela Lugosi, senior and junior. |
For those who are fans of Bela Lugosi, KTTV Channel 11 in Los Angeles has "unearthed" rare video footage of the actor while he was in a treatment center in 1955 for narcotics addiction. This is footage his family didn't know existed.
This is one fascinating video! Thanks to Archie Waugh for posting it on Facebook!
According to KTTV:
LOS ANGELES, Calif. (FOX 11) - From deep in our KTTV archives we present the story of a man who we all came to know as a Monster. He was a family man. A proud actor. And, like many of us at different times in our lives, a man fighting his own demons even though he was Count Dracula! Dracula -- a creature conjured up by author Bram Stoker, but, brought to life by Bela Lugosi.
He was in 23 Hungarian and German films; 113 films and shorts in the United States. He appeared in well over 200 stage performances. 48 of those were in the United States. He was on radio shows, he made public appearances… but, those movies like Dracula and White Zombie.
In our KTTV archives, we discovered footage even Lugosi’s family didn’t know existed. Metropolitan Hospital in Norwalk. A state mental hospital where Lugosi, who checked himself in, sought help for drug addiction.
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| Above, Bela Lugosi Jr. in 2013. Photo by Armand Vaquer. |
To read the article and see the video, go here.
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