Word: dracula
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Married. Bela Lugosi, 72, Hungarian-born cinema spook (Dracula); and Hope Lininger, 39, movie studio cutting clerk, after she wrote him daily letters during his recent hospital confinement for drug addiction; he for the fifth time, she for the first; in Hollywood...
Natural Barrier. Lake trout, for many years the richest catch of Canadian and U.S. fisheries in the Great Lakes, have no such defense against the Dracula-like lamprey. The bloodthirsty parasite, usually about 18 inches long, clamps its suction snout onto a fish, drills a hole through the scales with its tongue and multiple rows of sharp teeth, and clings tenaciously, draining the host's body juices until it is satiated, or the fish dies...
...Hollywood, Bela Lugosi, who once spooked moviegoers as Dracula and assorted fiends and zombie doctors, was sent to a state hospital as a drug addict. Now 72, and looking as poorly as any makeup man ever painted him. Lugosi asked to be committed, admitting he had been using narcotics for 20 years. "I don't have a dime left," he said. "I am dependent on my friends for food...
Power of Suggestion. In Toledo, a summer-stock production of Dracula was interrupted when a bat flew in the front door, barged around for 20 minutes until finally knocked down...
Divorced. Bela Lugosi, 68, veteran Hollywood cinemonster (Dracula); by his third wife, Lillian Arch Lugosi, 41, on the ground that his "unfounded jealousy" constituted mental cruelty; after 20 years of marriage, one son; in Los Angeles...