{"id":2297,"date":"2023-10-20T07:00:32","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T07:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/?p=2297"},"modified":"2023-10-28T09:48:42","modified_gmt":"2023-10-28T09:48:42","slug":"happy-birthday-to-cdf-alumnus-bela-lugosi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/10\/happy-birthday-to-cdf-alumnus-bela-lugosi\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday to CDF alumnus Bela Lugosi!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">October 20, 1882 \u2013 August 16, 1956<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Born B\u00e9la Ferenc Dezs\u0151 Blask\u00f3 in Lugos, Kingdom of Hungary, Austria-Hungary; Bela Lugosi was a fantastic character actor with over 110 credits on his acting resume \u2013 including the CDF classics THE RAVEN (1935), THE INVISIBLE RAY (1936), SON OF FRANKENSTEIN (1939), BLACK FRIDAY (1940), THE WOLF MAN (1941), THE GHOST OF FRANKENSTEIN (1942), FRANKENSTEIN MEETS THE WOLF MAN, and ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN (1948)! However it is his captivating performance as the undead Translyvanian Count in 1931\u2019s DRACULA that achieves his silver screen immortality as one of the original Universal Monsters horror icons!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2298\" src=\"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Bela-Lugosi_Instagram_1080x1080.jpg\" alt=\"Bela Lugosi photo collage\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Bela-Lugosi_Instagram_1080x1080.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Bela-Lugosi_Instagram_1080x1080-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Bela-Lugosi_Instagram_1080x1080-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Bela-Lugosi_Instagram_1080x1080-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Bela-Lugosi_Instagram_1080x1080-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 20, 1882 \u2013 August 16, 1956 Born B\u00e9la Ferenc Dezs\u0151 Blask\u00f3 in Lugos, Kingdom of Hungary, Austria-Hungary; Bela Lugosi was a fantastic character actor with over 110 credits on his acting resume \u2013 including the CDF classics THE RAVEN (1935), THE INVISIBLE RAY (1936), SON OF FRANKENSTEIN (1939), BLACK FRIDAY (1940), THE WOLF MAN [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2298,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[89,42,15,7,5,6,67,33,9,64],"class_list":["post-2297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-creaturefeature","tag-actor","tag-belalugosi","tag-cdfalum","tag-cdfroundup","tag-creaturedoublefeature","tag-creaturefeature","tag-dracula","tag-frankenstein","tag-horror","tag-thewolfman"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Bela-Lugosi_Instagram_1080x1080.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2297"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2299,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2297\/revisions\/2299"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}