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- From: "eliot gelwan" <eliot.gelwan@channel1.com>
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
- Subject: who is dwight frye?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.1489.35541@channel1>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 15:59:52 EST
- Reply-To: "eliot gelwan" <eliot.gelwan@channel1.com>
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- Organization: Channel 1 Communications
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- On 12-23-92 PETER REIHER wrote:
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- PR»That makes him third choice, since Universal originally planned it for
- PR»Lon Chaney, who died before it could be made. None the less, Lugosi
- PR»was well known for the part from the Broadway production of "Dracula",
- PR»and so completely defined the role in the public's imagination that I think
- PR»it's fair to say that if anyone was born to play any part, Lugosi was born
- PR»for "Dracula".
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- I agree with you aesthetically. It is impossible to not think of
- Lugosi when I see anyone else in the role. Certainly Oldman, and
- also Langella, and Carradine (and am I remembering correctly that
- Jack Palance once played him too?). Klaus Kinski's Nosferatu is
- archetypal in its own way.
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- I was commenting *historically*, not *aesthetically*, in my
- earlier post, I guess it's clear...
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