Universal Studios Monsters - 1936 - Draculas Daughter

Dracula’s Daughter, Universal’s first follow-up to their original classic monster success story, was released on the 11th of May, 1936. A sequel to the 1931 Dracula, the film picks up exactly where its predecessor leaves off, and sees that vampire’s daughter, the Countess Marya Zaleska (Gloria Holden), destroying her father’s body in the hope that she will then be free of his influence and can live as a human. Directed by Lambert Hillyer from a screenplay by Garrett Fort, the film also stars Otto Kruger, Marguerite Churchill, Irving Pichel and, as the only cast continuity from the original, Edward Van Sloan, who now bears the inexplicably changed moniker of Von intending to film it as Bram Stoker’smissing chapter, Dracula’s Guest, David O Selznick had bought the rights for MGM. Mindful of Universal’s stringent copyright on Dracula as both a character and property, he quickly lost interest and ultimately sold them on to the Laemmles. After first giving the treatment to James Whale, Univer