A Bela Lugosi Group of Personally-Owned Scrapbooks, 1920s-1950s. Three total, compiled by and for the actor himself over the course of many decades, the first with a black cloth cover with a handwritten notation reading Bela Lugosi / Dracula, with a typed legend glued to the left side noting in part New York Stage / Productions, title page has a penciled annotation in the actors hand reading If found please call / Bryant 4811 - (bet. 9-12 a.m. / Reward / Bela Lugosi / Actors Equity / 45 W. 47th Street; dating from 1921 to 1929, filled with countless pages of newspaper clippings, magazine clippings, photographs (just two), theatre programs, playbills, and critics reviews of 1920s theatrical productions Lugosi starred in such as The Red Poppy, Arabesque, The Devil in the Cheese, and, most importantly, Dracula, among a few others, housed in its own clamshell case; 2) the second also with a black cloth cover, with a typed legend glued to the left side noting Personal / 1924-1935 / Sport / 1934-1935, filled with numerous pages of mostly clipping service newspaper articles about the actors personal life, covering his failed romances with Clara Bow, Iona von Montagh (wife #2), Beatrice Woodruff Weeks (wife #3, for all of four days), and Lillian Arch (wife #4), clippings also relate to the actors professional life and public appearances; and 3) the third is oversized with a green leather cover, filled with newspaper clippings about the actors activities starting in 1939 and ending in 1956 when the actor died, the last pages filled with dozens of Lugosis obits from newspapers around the country (most of which got his age and personal information wrong) plus a handful of sympathy cards sent to his last wife, Hope Lininger; the contents of these three scrapbooks are quite comprehensive with fascinating and detailed information about Lugosi that cannot be found elsewhere - perfect for the diehard Lugosi fan and scholar. (Please note that due to age, many of the contents are now brittle and fragile, but still legible.) Largest Scrapbook: 17 x 15 x 1 From the Book Sail / John McLaughlin Collection This Sold $5,000.00
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