14 Facts About Dracula's Daughter

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Dracula's Daughter is a 1936 American vampire horror film produced by Universal Pictures as a sequel to the 1931 film Dracula.

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Dracula's Daughter tells the story of Countess Marya Zaleska, the daughter of Count Dracula and herself a vampire.

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3.

Dracula's Daughter is taken to Scotland Yard, where he explains to Sir Basil Humphrey that he indeed did destroy Count Dracula, but because he had already been dead for over 500 years, it cannot be considered murder.

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4.

Dracula's Daughter sees a pretty young woman, Lili, and follows her onto a bridge.

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5.

Dracula's Daughter's follows him back to London and operates under the name "Countess Szekelsky".

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6.

The script included scenes that implied that Dracula's daughter enjoyed torturing her male victims, and that while under her control, the men liked it, too.

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7.

Dracula's Daughter was Gloria Holden's first starring role, and reportedly she was extremely displeased at having been assigned it.

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8.

Dracula's Daughter's had seen Bela Lugosi struggle over the years since Dracula was made to free himself from typecasting, and feared that the role would lead to the same fate for her.

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Dracula's Daughter was the last in the first cycle of Universal Horror films that reached back into the 1920s.

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10.

In truth, the cycle was suspended because, just before filming on Dracula's Daughter had wrapped, the Laemmle family had lost control of Universal.

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11.

Dracula's Daughter's named a bar in her novel The Queen of the Damned "Dracula's Daughter" in honor of the film.

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Dracula's Daughter marked the first time that the trend was incorporated into a film.

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13.

The lesbian implications of Dracula's Daughter were obvious from the start and were of great concern to the Production Code Administration.

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14.

Dracula's Daughter's will be posing her neck and shoulders, and there will be no suggestion that she undresses, and there will be no exposure of her person.

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