Bela Lugosi
Blaskó Béla Ferenc Dezső
20.10.1882. - 16.08.1956.
Bela Lugosi is Dead... 66 years ago today. He was buried in his Dracula costume.
Lugosi had been receiving regular medication for sciatic neuritis, for years, and became addicted to doctor-prescribed morphine and methadone. This drug dependence come along with gradually worsening alcoholism. Lugosi died of a heart attack on Thursday, August 16, 1956, in his Los Angeles apartment while taking a nap. His wife Hope discovered him dead, on his bed dressed only in his underwear. The rumor that Lugosi was clutching the script for "The Final Curtain, a planned Ed Wood project, at the time of his death is not true. Lugosi was buried wearing one of the "Dracula" capes and his full costume as well as his Dracula ring in the Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California. Contrary to popular belief, Lugosi never requested to be buried in his cloak.
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