BELA (BAY-luh)
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Bela Lugosi – actor
2. Bela Bartok – composer
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Bela Karolyi – gymnastics coach
Common clues: Gymnastics
coach Karolyi; Dracula portrayer Lugosi; Lugosi portrayed in "Ed
Wood"; Composer Bartok; Bartok or Lugosi; First name in
horror; Mary Lou's coach; Banjoist Fleck
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“We would walk over the names of Vincent Price, Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi, never, ever thinking that our names would ever be on the Walk of Fame, ... That is really quite a privilege to be here.” ~ Alice Cooper
Béla Lugosi was the stage name of actor Béla Ferenc Dezso Blasko (October 20, 1882–August 16, 1956). He was born in Lugos, Transylvania, Austria-Hungary (now Lugoj, Romania), the youngest of four children of a banker. He is best known for his portrayal of Dracula in the American Broadway stage production, and subsequent film, of Bram Stoker's classic vampire story.
Following the success of Dracula (1931), Lugosi received a studio contract with Universal.
After Universal changed management in 1936, he found himself consigned, along with their entire approach to horror films, to Universal's b-film unit, at times in small roles where he was obviously used for "name value" only. In the early 1940s, Universal did not renew its contract with Lugosi, and he ended up having to contract with the poverty row company Monogram Pictures, where he received star billing in a succession of horror, psycho and mystery B-films produced by Sam Katzman.
Truth being sometimes stranger than fiction , Bela Lugosi was buried in his full Dracula costume, as per the request in his will, in the Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California.
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Béla Viktor János Bartók (March 25, 1881 – September 26, 1945) was a composer, pianist and collector of East European folk music. Bartók was one of the founders of the field of ethnomusicology, the study of folk music and the music of non-Western cultures.
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Béla Károlyi (born September 13, 1942) is a Romanian gymnastics coach. Born in Kolozsvár, Hungary (Cluj-Napoca, Romania since 1944), to an ethnic Hungarian family, Károlyi and his wife, Márta, also of Hungarian ancestry, emigrated to the United States in 1981 and both have dual citizenships for Romania and America. The Károlyis have coached both United States and Romanian Olympic teams to medal-winning success.
Among the gymnasts Béla and Marta Károlyi have trained are Nadia Comăneci (first 10), Mary Lou Retton, Betty Okino, Kerri Strug, Teodora Ungureanu, Kim Zmeskal, Kristie Phillips and Dominique Moceanu. In total, Károlyi has coached nine Olympic champions, fifteen world champions, sixteen European medalists and six U.S. national champions.
This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Bela Lugosi", “Bela Karolyi”, and “Bela Bartok”
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