Florence Balcombe was the wife and literary executor of Bram Stoker.
12 Facts About Florence Balcombe
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Florence Balcombe is remembered for her legal dispute with the makers of Nosferatu, an unauthorized film based on her husband's novel Dracula.
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The daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel James Balcombe of 1 Marino Crescent, Clontarf, and of Phillippa Anne Marshall, she was a celebrated beauty whose former suitor was Oscar Wilde.
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Florence Balcombe had known Wilde from their student days, and had proposed Wilde for membership of the university's Philosophical Society while he was president.
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Florence Balcombe outlived her husband by 25 years and died in 1937 at the age of 78.
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Florence Balcombe was cremated at Golders Green Crematorium, and her ashes scattered at the Gardens of Rest there.
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Florence Balcombe is remembered for her legal dispute with the makers of the 1922 German horror film Nosferatu, which was based without attribution or permission on Stoker's novel Dracula.
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Florence Balcombe was unaware of the existence of Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau's Nosferatu until she received an anonymous letter from Berlin.
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Florence Balcombe was struggling financially and, as Stoker's literary executor, had never given permission for the adaptation, nor received payment for it.
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Florence Balcombe launched a lawsuit in which she was represented by the lawyers of the British Incorporated Society of Authors.
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Florence Balcombe did grant the rights to the stage adaptation of Dracula to Hamilton Deane, who had been a neighbour of hers in Dublin.
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In 1927 Horace Liveright bought the American dramatic rights from Florence and hired John L Balderston to edit it for the New York stage.