• as • as • as • as • as • as • as • as Nurse Briggs (in an error on the, she is misidentified as 'Maid') • as Martin, Renfield's attendant Uncredited cast [ ] Among those uncredited were: • The film's producer/director as the off-screen voice of the harbormaster. • in a cameo at the start of the film as a woman with glasses in the coach carrying Renfield and reading aloud from a travel brochure of the area, “Among the rugged peaks that frown down upon the Borgo Pass are found crumbling castles of a bygone age” Laemmle was one of the last surviving stars having died in 2014, 4 months before her 105th birthday. She was a cousin of the film's producer and niece of Universal Studios founder. • Geraldine Dvorak, Cornelia Thaw, and as Dracula's wives Background [ ]. Geraldine Dvorak, and Cornelia Thaw as Dracula’s wives Bram Stoker's novel had already been filmed without permission as in 1922 by film maker.

Bram Stoker's widow sued for and, and the courts decided in her favor, essentially ordering that all of Nosferatu be destroyed. Enthusiastic young Hollywood producer also saw the box office potential in Stoker's gothic chiller, and he legally acquired the novel's film rights. Initially, he wanted Dracula to be a spectacle on a scale with the lavish silent films (1923) and (1925). [ ] Already a huge hit on, the Deane/Balderston Dracula play would become the blueprint as the production gained momentum. The screenwriters carefully studied the silent, unauthorized version, 's, for inspiration.

One bit of business lifted directly from a nearly identical scene in Nosferatu that does not appear in Stoker's novel was the early scene at the Count's castle when Renfield accidentally pricks his finger on a paper clip and it starts to bleed, and Dracula creeps toward him with glee, only to be repelled when the crucifix falls in front of the bleeding finger. As Dracula Production [ ] Decision on casting the title role proved problematic. Initially, Laemmle was not at all interested in Lugosi, in spite of good reviews for his stage portrayal.

Laemmle instead considered other actors, including,,,,, and. Lugosi had played the role on Broadway, and to his good fortune, happened to be in with a touring company of the play when the film was being cast. Against the tide of studio opinion, Lugosi lobbied hard and ultimately won the executives over, thanks in part to him accepting a paltry $500 per week salary for seven weeks of work, amounting to $3,500.

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According to numerous accounts, the production is alleged to have been a mostly disorganized affair, with the usually meticulous Tod Browning leaving cinematographer to take over during much of the shoot, making Freund something of an uncredited director on the film. The peasants at the beginning are praying in, and the signs of the village are also in Hungarian. This was because when Bram Stoker wrote the original novel, the was near and modern. This part of the world was then part of the and within the. Now that area is part of. The scenes of crew members on the ship struggling in the violent storm were lifted from a Universal silent film, The Storm Breaker (1925).

Photographed at, this accounts for the jerky, sped-up appearance of the footage when projected at 24 frames per second sound film speed and cobbled together with new footage of Dracula and Renfield. Was the who produced the sound effects. Cinematic process [ ] The film's histrionic dramatics from the stage play are also reflected in its, which are limited to fog, lighting, and large flexible bats. Dracula's transition from bat to person is always done off-camera. The film also employs extended periods of silence and character close-ups for dramatic effect, and employs several and a closeup of a newspaper article to advance the story, holdovers from.

One point made by online is that the actors' performance style seems to belong to the silent era. Director had a solid reputation as a silent film director, having made them since 1915, but he never felt completely at ease with sound films.

He only directed a few more, the next one being the notorious, a horror movie with and a cast of actual carnival freaks that was yanked from distribution immediately. Browning directed his last film in 1939. Soundtrack [ ] Due to the limitations of adding a musical score to a film's soundtrack during 1930 and 1931, no score had ever been composed specifically for the film. The music heard during the opening credits, an excerpt from Act II of 's, was re-used in 1932 for another Universal horror film,. During the theatre scene where Dracula meets Dr. Seward, Harker, Mina and Lucy, the end of the overture to 's can also be heard as well as the dark opening of.