REMEMBERING: Melissa Stribling who was born
today November 7th 1927. Stribling appeared in just the one film with
Peter Cushing...but boy did she pick the right one! She also got to play
in one of Hammer films most iconic scenes in their 1958
'Dracula', where Christopher Lee's Count, in the dead of night, visits
her home and..without a word.. seduces her. The scene is so super
charged with sexual tension, it almost crackles off the screen and as a
result got the scissors treatment from the censors at the time.
In 2013,
in Hammer's restored print the exorcised footage was replaced, giving
us the full picture of what Director Terence Fisher, Stribling and Lee
had originally intended and created.
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