
However, we will always have her performance in the 1931 classic Dracula and remember her fondly as the woman that caught The Count’s eye. Chandler was married three times: Cyril Hume (1930-1934), Bramwell Fletcher (1935-1940) and Walter Piascik (until her death).īram Stoker wrote a tragic love story when he wrote “Dracula” and Helen Chandler gave us a tragic story of a promising starlet who was defeated by her inner demons.

My tongue is slick And it's licking your wicked body You're writhing and moaning But you don't want to stop me.
WOLF LOVE AT FIRST BITE MOVIE
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson: David Steinberg/Jill Ireland/The 'Jim' Twins (1979) (TV Episode) David Steinberg mentions the movie written by. Helen Chandler died on Apin Hollywood after she went into cardiac arrest following surgery to repair a stomach ulcer. Slithering, sliding Outside your bedroom door Something is creeping It's seeking to devour. At one point Angel tells Rockford that one of the thugs who attacked him was,' a cross between George Hamilton and Dracula.' This episode was broadcast two months before the movie's premiere. In 1950, she was severely burned and disfigured after she fell asleep with a lit cigarette, setting her home on fire. Chandler was in and out of hospitals and other facilities as she tried to overcome alcoholism and an addiction to sleeping pills. Although she would star in numerous movies after Dracula, she would succumb to substance abuse. These bites, however, could also be fatal, and a mixture of silver and dittany applied to the fresh wound would seal it and allow the. While Dracula became a huge success, Helen Chandler’s career took a nosedive. Lycanthropy was a magical illness known to be spread by contact between saliva and blood thus, when a transformed werewolf bit a human, the bitten would become a werewolf themselves. In 1931, she was cast in what would become her most famous role, Mina Seward.

Helen Chandler, one of Universal’s true starlets!
