Incredible vintage 8x10-inch black and white bust portrait as the titular undead Count in Hamilton Deane's stage production of Dracula, signed and inscribed in fountain pen:  "To Fred, / Bela Lugosi."  In good condition, wit scattered surface creases, beautifully matted in black, red and white, with two engraved label plates and a small shadow box containing an exact replica of Lugosi's fabled Dracula ring, all ornately framed.  The Hungarian star of the stage and screen will forever be associated with his portrayal of the titular bloodsucker in Tod Browning’s Dracula (1931), a role he would reprise in Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein in 1948.  He was also chilling as Inspector Delzante in The Thirteenth Chair (1929), Dr. Mirakle in Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932), Murder Legendre in White Zombie (1932), Roxor in Chandu the Magician (1932), the Sayer of the Law in Island of Lost Souls (1932), Degar inNight of Terror (1933), Dr. Verdegast in The Black Cat (1934), Chandu in The Return of Chandu (1934), Count Mora in Mark of the Vampire (1934), Anton Lorenzen in Phantom Ship (1934), Dr. Vollin in The Raven (1934), Dr. Perry in Murder by Television (1935), Dr. Benet in The Invisible Ray (1936), Ygor in Son of Frankenstein(1939), Peters the butler in The Gorilla (1939), Dr. Zorka in The Phantom Creeps (1939), Dr. Orloff in The Human Monster (1939), Eric Marnay in Black Friday (1940), Dr. Carruthers in The Devil Bat (1940), Dr. Kessler in Invisible Ghost (1941), Eduardo Vivos in The Black Cat (1941), Ygor in The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942), Dr. Lorenz in The Corpse Vanishes (1942), Rolf in Night Monster (1942), Professor Brenner in Bowery at Midnight (1942), Dr. Brewster in The Ape Man (1942), Frankenstein’s monster in Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943), Emil in Ghosts on the Loose (1943), Armand Tesla and Dr. Bruckner in Return of the Vampire (1944), Dr. Marlowe in Voodoo Man (1944), Professor Dexter in Return of the Ape Man (1944), Merkil in One Body Too Many (1944), Dr. Renault in Zombies on Broadway (1945), Joseph in The Body Snatcher (1945), Von Housen in My Son, the Vampire (1952), Dr. Zabor in Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla (1952), Dr. Vornoff in Bride of the Monster (1955), and a ghoul in Plan Nine from Outer Space (1959).

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