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•   Revered as the masters of the horror movie, Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff are often seen as rivals, but it seems that in the beginning their careers depended entirely on each another.
• " -Lugosi.
• It seems redundant to dismiss either Boris Karloff or Bela Lugosi over the other. ... Karloff managed to maintain a run of high profile character portrayals, while Lugosi steadily found himself being cast in a stream of low budget programmers of decreasing quality. Many factors were to cause Lugosi's fall from grace, especially after Universal procured his services for Dracula at $500 a week on a seven week shooting schedule, the other studios became wise to the fact that he could be bought cheaply. Later on Lugosi would just be thankful for the work that was offered him while his lack of business acumen made his career even more precarious. ... Even Boris Karloff remarked after Lugosi's death, "Poor old Bela, it was a strange thing. ...
• As the newly crowned "King of Horror", Bela was approached by Carl Laemmle Jnr. ... However, tempers began to flare when Bela discovered the role was a non-speaking part. Lugosi and Florey both demanded to know why a handsome star with a superb voice be wasted in a role that, as Lugosi put it, "any half-wit extra" could play?.
• Bela eventually agreed to a test reel with his own make-up design. ...
• In 1935 Lugosi offered his own version of the story, "I made up for the role and had tests taken, which were pronounced okay. ...
• Lugosi's wife Lillian supported his claim. ... Bela created his own monster. ...
• In any event Lugosi had clearly been the subject of harsh studio descisions, despite Universal attempting to quell any bad-feeling by teaming Lugosi and Florey for the first of three Edgar Allen Poe adaptations, Murders in the Rue Morgue.
• Karloff and Lugosi apparantly first met in March of 1932 on the set of Universal's NIGHT WORLD, a drama centered around a nightclub with Karloff cast as "Happy" MacDonald, the proprieter. ...

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