Bela Lugosi In Person [Paperback]

The latest in a series of books by researchers extraordinaire Gary D. Rhodes and Bill Kaffenberger, Bela Lugosi in Person brims with new facts, figures, and never-seen photos documenting the actors scores of live public performances from 1931 to 1945, the era of his greatest fame. Three-act plays, vaudeville sketches, variety shows, and personal appearances are all chronicled at length, bringing new perspective to Lugosis life and career. Gary Rhodes and Bill Kaffenberger have once again delivered the goods with their latest work Bela Lugosi in Person. They have combined their gift for scholarly research with an entertaining style to unveil fascinating aspects of Lugosis stage career and the personal dramas that took place behind stage. Chockfull of surprises and new revelations that will delight every reader, but particularly aficionados who know Lugosi, but not 'Lugosi in Person.' Simply superb.  Robert Cremer, author of Lugosi: The Man Behind the Cape Ive been a fan of Bela Lugosi for some six decades. Ironically Id never heard of the actor until the day in 1956 that he died, when my Mother informed me of his passing. Now Im also a fan of Gary D. Rhodes and Bill Kaffenberger, a team who, it seems, know  and care  more about the man best known for his role of Count Dracula, and getting the facts about that man accurately recorded, than anyone else on the planet. Rhodes previous book, Tod Brownings Dracula, and Rhodes and Kaffenbergers No Traveler Returns, are incredibly well-researched and entertaining studies of the actors career that I could not put down once I began reading them & and this new tome, written with the same scholarship and style, completes a literary trilogy every Bela Lugosi enthusiast should own and read. Highly recommended!  Donald F. Glut, author of The Dracula Book and The Empire Strikes Back novelization. I witnessed the intensity of my father, Bela Lugosi, firsthand. But I did not at the time realize how uniqlC–