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Lugosi vs Karloff - "The Monster Mash-Up: When Dracula and Frankenstein Went to War"
October 1956: Bela Lugosi dies in a charity ward, buried in his Dracula cape—the only valuable thing he owned. Boris Karloff sends flowers but doesn't attend, too busy earning $7,500 a week on Broadway. The monsters of Universal Horror spent thirty years locked in a bitter rivalry that began when Karloff's Frankenstein eclipsed Lugosi's Dracula and ended with one man a pauper, the other a millionaire. From their first film together in 1934 to Lugosi's final humiliation playing the Monster he once "rejected," Marcus Reid unearths the petty sabotage, salary disputes, and scene-stealing that…
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