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Did Emil Jannings or Bela Lugosi give vampires their Widow's Peak?

Original: Did Emil Jannings or Bela Lugosi give vampires their Widow's Peak? (Faust 1926 by F.W. Murnau) https:// lemmy.zip/post/7

Film buffs are debating whether the pointed hairline now known as the vampire's widow's peak originated with Emil Jannings in F.W. Murnau's 1926 silent classic Faust, or later with Bela Lugosi's iconic 1931 Dracula. The question touches on how silent-era German expressionist cinema shaped vampire imagery that Lugosi later cemented in popular culture.

Why now: Classic film enthusiasts are debating the origins of a famous horror trope in early cinema.

Emil JanningsBela LugosiF.W. MurnauFaust

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• Did Emil Jannings or Bela Lugosi give vampires their Widow's Peak? (Faust 1926 by F.W. Murnau) https:// lemmy.zip/post/72410469 · Edges@lemmy.zip · 1

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