Margaret Suran > wrote:

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>Wayne Boatwright wrote:
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>>>And before Lugosi, Max Shreck in Nosferatu, 1923, a silent German film.
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>> Ah, I have a videotape of Nosferatu. Max Shreck was scarier than Bela
>> Lugosi, I think.
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>That was the era of really scary films. The Cabinet Of Dr. Mabuse and
>the first Waxworks (Wachsfigurenkabinett) comes to mind. Freaks was
>another one, but that was already a sound film. The first Phantom Of
>The Opera, the first Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and The Invisible Man (a
>sound film), all were real horror films. Actually, I shouldn't even
>talk about this, as I never went to see one. I do not like horror
>films and didn't go to any of them. (
>
>Shirley Temple, Nelson Eddy & Jeanette McDonald and Ginger Rogers &
>Fred Astaire were more my speed. Still are and I watch the same old
>films on TCM and other such stations, whenever they are aired. )
>
>Most of these films had scenes of elaborate meals and at least one man
>or woman character who had indulged in too much alcohol. Everybody
>drank and smoked, which was considered very cool. Remember The Man
>Who Came To Dinner?


We put on The Man Who Came to Dinner as the senior class play a couple
of generations ago.
--
Susan N.

"Moral indignation is in most cases two percent moral, 48 percent indignation, and 50 percent envy."
Vittorio De Sica, Italian movie director (1901-1974)