Okay, got the names right. I don't know why I always say Renfew instead of Renfield. (A few of you through the years have corrected me on this.) Was there any characters in the 'old fashioned scary movies' named Renfew?
Alright, watching (what I consider the 'original' Dracula), 1931/B. Lugosi.
Until the movie Van Helsing came out, I do not ever remember hearing of him. You also have mentioned the Van Helsing character (not the one w/Hugh Jackman). In OS, to me, seems like Prof. Stokes would be him, but, we're not ever actually and 'in-your-face' told that Stokes knows about Barn. This leaves Julia, who, well, we know she couldn't fight against him.
Again, 1931, and, it's been mentioned here that Lugosi never bears teeth. Were people in the 1931 time so familiar w/vampires that he doesn't have to? Or, would that have been too 'shocking' (by 1930/little earlier, there were now 'standards', which, 15 years before, it was a free for all.
Again, anyone know if either Dracula or Frankenstein was ever a stage production? (Back then I mean.)
Patti