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Oct 30, 2021 · The first, most famous and perhaps only example of an early Hollywood lesbian vampire film is 1936's “Dracula’s Daughter,” Universal Pictures’ follow-up to its massive 1931 hit “Dracula...
Oct 27, 2022 · Marya Zaleska goes after women more often than men in the film, and the movie grapples with some hallmark issues of anyone's coming out story: denial, self-hatred, inner-conflict and...
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Jun 22, 2015 · As noted by film historians, Dracula’s Daughter contains a number of scenes in which a lesbian subtext is evident. The most obvious of these scenes occurs between Marya and her manservant, Sandor. Upon returning home after disposing of Count Dracula’s body, Marya confides to Sandor that her curse will be lifted and that she’ll finally be ...
Feb 19, 2022 · Forgotten Universal monster movie Dracula's Daughter was forced to tone down its lesbian subtext in order to comply with the Hays Code.
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The lesbian implications of Dracula's Daughter were of great concern to the Production Code Administration. PCA head Breen took special notice of the scene between the Countess and her model, Lili, writing: "This will need very careful handling to avoid any questionable flavor". [37]
Oct 30, 2021 · “Dracula’s Daughter” and other coded takes on lesbianism lit a cultural fire that exploded in the ‘60s and ‘70s. As censorship and restrictions on nudity waned, lesbian vampires morphed from...
May 28, 2021 · Even this relatively toned-down expression of homosexuality made Universal executives very nervous. Regardless, decades of onscreen vampiric lesbian women owe Dracula’s Daughter a debt.
