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1958 Dracula : Cast and Characters in Improvised Locations! Over at the Facebook PCASUK Fan Page I have posted three stills, from a series of about six, taken back in January 1957 at
Bray studios, by a stills photographer visiting from the international
trade newspaper, 'Stage and Screen'. Here are TWO of them. The first a photograph of #PeterCushing as Van Helsing, but sitting studio
office with wicker chair.. and 1950's Venetian window blind with
microphone on a stand in the background! The next, an interesting, Melissa Stribling posing with a 1950's telephone, wearing that beautiful fur collared coat, that she wore in the film . . .
ALL CAST FEATURED are wearing
their costumes. There is also a photograph that features Christopher Lee in full
Dracula costume, on the set of what appears to be the Holmwood family
home, 'biting' a woman in costume. Behind them, the Dracula coffin, rests on the arms of a wooden coach house seat! The victim could be Melissa
Stribling... but, something ain't right, so I am not sure. One theory is, it could be the actress
Barbara Archer who played Inga, the 'waitress' who appears in actor
George Woodbridge's Inn, with Peter Cushing... she gives Van Helsing,
Jonathan Harker's diary to him!
Is it Stribling or Archer? Not sure. These photographs are thought to
have been commissioned by John Springer, famous publicist and 'agent to
the stars' which he fed to news and trade papers, world -wide.. all
being part of the publicity machine after the success of Peter Cushing's
and Christopher Lee's first Hammer films, 'The Curse of Frankenstein' in
1957.
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