I saw some of the posters and lobby cards in a book a few months ago and the glamor and romance with which Bela's Dracula was presented leaves the Twilight stuff in the dust.
I've seen some of that stuff, too (several years back there was a TV program, possibly on PBS, about movie promotion in the 30s), and know exactly what you mean.
Just another day in the United States of Amnesia...
So true. But then it's hardly surprising that many people and particularly that many people who post these blogs have no clue how Lugosi's
Dracula was promoted because they don't even know how movies in the '70s and '80s were promoted, much less the movies of the '30s. It's quite unfortunate how much their knowledge base is limited. And heaven forbid they should actually do research - particularly research that doesn't include simply looking up info on the Internet which is all too often as unresearched as their own knowledge. Checking out old (and by old, sadly I mean ones even published only 20 years ago) books and even old magazine articles is a foreign concept to them...