Dracula's Daughter
USA  -  1936
B&W  -  71 min.
 
Nan Grey and Gloria Holden
 
Otto Kruger  -  Dr. Jeffrey Garth
Gloria Holden  -  Countess Marya Zaleska
Marguerite Churchill  -  Janet Blake
Edward Van Sloan  -  Prof. Van Helsing
Gilbert Emery  -  Sir Basil Humphrey
Irving Pichel  -  Sandor
Halliwell Hobbes  -  Constable Hawkins
Billy Bevan  -  Albert
Nan Grey  -  Lili
Hedda Hopper  -  Lady Esme Hammond
Claud Allister  -  Sir Aubrey Vail
Edgar Norton  -  Hobbs
 
DIRECTED BY   Lambert Hillyer
WRITTEN BY  John L. Balderston & Garrett Fort
 
 
Holden, Kruger, and Churchill
 
 
When Dr. Van Helsing kills Dracula in London,
the police charge him with murder.  To defend
himself, Van Helsing contacts Dr. Jeffrey
Garth to help explain the vampire legend.
Garth is unknowingly counseling a patient
named Countess Marya Zaleska.
As the vampire murders in London continue,
the police enlist the aid of both Garth
and Van Helsing.  The Countess, who is
Dracula's daughter, lures young women to
their deaths with the help of her servant.
When her doctor refuses to move to
Transylvannia with her, Countess Zaleska
abducts his secretary.  Garth is given the
choice of life with Dracula's daughter for
eternity or death for his lovely secretary.
 
Also known as Daughter of Dracula, this was the first film to
feature a female vampire seducing and possessing female victims in an
implied lesbian relationship.  Later examples of this can be seen in the films
Blood and Roses (1961), The Vampire Lovers (1970),  and
The Blood-Spattered Bride (1972), all based on the "Carmilla" tales,
and Hunger, The (1983).
 
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