DRACULA -LUGOSI-CHANEY JR. CARRADINE CUT SIGNATURE MOUNTED IN DISPLAY WITH AUTHENTIC CUT SIGNATURES Start Price USD 2,695.00 Current Price USD 2,695.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Saturday, November 01, 2008 End Time Monday, December 01, 2008 Location Rutherfordton, North Carolina See more about 'DRACULA -LUGOSI-CHANEY JR. CARRADINE CUT SIGNATURE' Description -Dracula - Cut Signatures ofLugosi - Chaney - CarradineHere is a great display with independently outside authenticated autographs of Lugosi, Chaney Jr. and Carradine. (Authentication to go with winning bid)This piece measures 32" x 21" . Mounted with threeBlack and White 8" x 10" in double acid free mat professional framed with uv glass ready to displayAll three played Dracula during the Universal years with Lon Chaney being the only one to play the four monster in individual pictures.  This cut measure:  3 1/2" x 2" Lugosi has signed inlight blue ink on leaf paper (small ink smear on underscore)Bela LugosiFew actors have ever personified one of their famous characters more than Bela Lugosi. 25 years after playing the embodiment of evil in Dracula, Lugosi was put to rest in full Count Dracula costume, including the cape. His life and his death will forever be under the shadow of the lurid Count. "Every actor is somewhat mad, or else he'd be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman." – Bela Lugosi Born in October of 1882, Be'la Ferenc Dezso Blasko was youngest of four in a family settled in the village of Lugos, Hungary. Be'la's young life collided with World War I. He volunteered for the military and was eventually commissioned as a lieutenant. Upon his release from service he began appearing on stage and quickly became a distinguished actor in his native Hungary. Away from the limelight, Lugosi was responsible for organizing an actors' union in his home land before being forced to leave the country in response to his political activity. He eventually helped to unionize American actors and was a charter member of the Screen Actors Guild. It was in 1920 that the newly titled Bela Lugosi immigrated to the United States. Unable to speak English, he learned his lines phonetically and earned excellent reviews in several Broadway plays, as well as earning him his first film role in 1923's The Silent Command. Lugosi balanced stage and film work up before focusing solely on what became a three year Broadway run of Dracula, a move that altered Lugosi's life forever. During the stage run of Dracula, Lugosi married a rich Californian widow. Only three days later divorce papers were issued citing another woman in Lugosi's life. The media attention and notoriety followed him into the filming of the Dracula movie, arguably his shining moment on screen and undeniably his transformation into iconic horror legend. "Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as type. I was both amused and disappointed." – Bela Lugosi Lon Chaney Jr.Lon Chaney has signed in ink on white leaf paper.This cut measures 3" x 3"American character actor whose career was influenced (and often overshadowed) by that of his father, silent film star Lon Chaney. The younger Chaney was born while his parents were on a theatrical tour, and he joined them onstage for the first time at the age of six months. However, as a young man, even during the time of his father's growing fame, Creighton Chaney worked menial jobs to support himself without calling upon his father. He was at various times a plumber, a meatcutter's apprentice, a metal worker, and a farm worker. Always, however, there was the desire to follow in his father's footsteps. He studied makeup at his father's side, learning many of the techniques that had made his father famous. And he took stage roles in stock companies. It was not until after his father's death in 1930 that Chaney went to work in films. His first appearances were under his real name (he had been named for his mother, singer Cleva Creighton). He played number of supporting parts before a producer in 1935 insisted on changing his name to Lon Chaney Jr. as a marketing ploy. Chaney was uncomfortable with the ploy and always hated the "Jr". addendum. But he was also aware that the famous name could help his career, and so he kept it. Most of the parts he played were unmemorable, often bits, until 1939 when he was given the role of the simple-minded Lennie in the film adaptation of John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men (1939). Chaney's performance was spectacularly touching; indeed, it became one of the two roles for which he would always be best remembered. The other came within the next year, when Universal, in hopes of reviving their horror film franchise as well as memories of their great silent star, Chaney Sr., cast Chaney as the tortured Lawrence Talbot in The Wolf Man (1941). With this film and the slew of horror films that followed it, Chaney achieved a kind of stardom, though he was never able to achieve his goal of surpassing his father. By the 1950s, he was established as a star in low-budget horror films and as a reliable character actor in more prestigious, big-budget films such as High Noon (1952). Never as versatile as his father, he fell more and more into cheap and mundane productions which traded primarily on his name and those of other fading horror stars. His later years were bedeviled by illness and problems with alcohol. When he died from a variety of causes in 1973, it was as an actor who had spent his life chasing the fame of his father, but who was much beloved by a generation of filmgoers who had never seen his father.John CarradineJohn Carradine has signed in dark ink on leaf paper and this cut measures 4 1/2" x 3" Gaunt, celebrated Hollywood supporting player who appeared in ten John Ford films, including the 1940 classic "The Grapes of Wrath". A specialist in eccentric roles who did much enjoyable and professional hamming in many routine horror films, Carradine was also a keen Shakespearean stage actor, and his habit of reciting soliloquies while walking in public earned him the nick-name "Bard of the Boulevard." Carradine was the son of a noted attorney father and a noted surgeon mother, but was not as inclined towards a conventional profession. Instead, he became an artist, working his way around the country doing portrait sketches in office buildings. In New Orleans in 1925, Carradine suddenly decided on a career on the stage and made his debut in a production of "Camille". He then joined a Shakespearean stock company and worked his way out to the west coast. There, he broke into films using the name John Peter Richmond. His first feature was "Tol'able David" in 1930. But though he can be sighted in Claudette Colbert's "Cleopatra" (1934), his career wasn't going anywhere until he signed a contract with Fox and took the name John Carradine. Beginning with "Anything Goes" (1935), Carradine appeared in 220 films, typically playing supporting roles in "A" pictures and leads in "B" horror films, often as a demented scientist or a Dracula. He played the latter beginning in 1945 in "House of Frankenstein" and played the vampire again in "House of Dracula" (1945), "Billy the Kid versus Dracula" (1966), and others, including the final go of it in "Nocturna" (1978). (Carradine played Dracula on screen as frequently -- if not more frequently -- than Bela Lugosi.) 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