Milton Berle : Lugosi vindicated

Lugosi vindicated

Berle, via his rapid speech and blatant disregard for the rehearsed script during "Texaco Star Theatre" in 1949 was enormously disrespectful to Bela Lugosi, and his parting shot of "you kill people on screen - you kill jokes, too" was totally uncalled for.

Lugosi was a tremendous actor and a great comic, given half a chance. Berle didn't even give him that.

I'm sure Bela Lugosi rests in peace safe in the knowledge that he is still a household name, whereas Berle is, at best, a footnote. And, given his behaviour, deservedly so.

Re: Lugosi vindicated

Since they're both dead, I don't think either of them know what's going on. LOL!
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Re: Lugosi vindicated

Alex Gordon, a writer and friend of Lugosi's denied that there was any tension between Lugosi and Milton Berle. Arthur Lennig [Lugosi's biographer] asked Berle about the incident in 1974. Berle had a clear memory of working with Lugosi and had a favorable impression of him and had no idea that Lugosi had been upset.

But Lugosi was unhappy with Red Skelton's add-libbing when he worked on Skelton's tv show. A version of this is depicted in ED WOOD [1994].

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