The Hungarian actor Bela Lugosi first played the role onstage in the 1927 Broadway production of Dracula.
It was adapted by Hamilton Deane and John Balderston from Bram Stoker’s novel.
Lugosi became famous by playing Dracula in the 1931 movie version.
James Chaney, 21, Andrew Goodman, 21, and Michael Schwerner, 25, were the names of the three civil rights workers murdered by the Ku Klux Klan in 1964. Goodman and Schwemer were white students from New York who had come to Mississippi to help in the “Freedom Summer” voter registration project. Chaney was a black Mississippian….
The 32,000-ton liner the Lusitania sunk by a German submarine on May 6, 1915, was British. Of the 1,200 passengers who lost their lives, 128 were Americans, a fact that aroused strong anti-German feeling in the U.S.
The League of Women Voters was founded in Chicago in 1920 by Carrie Chapman Catt, along with other leaders of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. Its aim was to strengthen the political power of women following passage of the 19th Amendment (granting women the vote). Since then, the organization’s aims broadened to general advocacy…
Most of the employees in the early years of the Boston Manufacturing Company, which was one of the first American cloth factories, were young, unmarried women. Founded at Waltham, Massachusetts, in 1814 by Francis Cabot Lowell, the company ran the first American factories to produce both yarn and finished textiles. Its employees were daughters of…
Less than eight months had gone by when the three network television movies on the “Long Island Lolita” shooting aired. The teenaged Fisher shot Buttafuoco, wife of her alleged lover Joey, on May 19, 1992, in Massapequa, Long Island. The NBC, CBS, and ABC TV-movies aired in the week from December 28, 1992, to January…
George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, premiered in 1924 by the Paul Whiteman Orchestra was billed as “An Experiment in Modern Music”. The piece fused symphonic and jazz styles, reflecting Gershwin’s background as a popular songwriter.