SC - OT: Eating the Script Girl

[Laura C. Minnick]

Philip & Susan Troy wrote:
> 
> Susan Fox-Davis wrote:
 
> > that the actor was a realllly weird spooky guy.  "What if he had
> > really been a vampire?"  The answer to the cinematic question is that the movie
> > "Nosferatu" would have come out exactly the same.
> 
> I think a great deal of any allegations of spookiness on the part of the
> actor may have had to do with the simple fact that nobody had ever
> played a vampire on film (despite rumors, Melies' "The Devil's Castle"
> doesn't count) before. I just watched "Nosferatu" the other day, and
> Schreck, or whoever it is, is so heavily made up that his actual
> performance is completely obscured by makeup, primitive special effects,
> and an extremely pantomimic directorial style. There was a similarly
> huge mystique attached to Boris Karloff, too, shortly before, and
> shortly after, the production and release of the 1931 "Frankenstein",
> one entirely unjustified except for publicity purposes. At least his
> earlier career is pretty documentably harmless, and nobody was ever
> kinder to children and dogs, but I'm really not aware of any claims that
> Schreck was an especially spooky man off camera. Or, if he was, there
> are quite a few otherwise reputable film historians who weren't aware of
> it.

Well, I can be pretty spooky off-camera (at the moment, I'm a mess!) and
no one has accused me of vampirism. At least not in my hearing...
besides everyone knows how I luuuv garlic...

'Lainie
one cuppa tea, still need more...