Bela Lugosi came to the U.S. in 1920. With fellow Hungarian actors, he formed a small stock company that toured Eastern cities playing for immigrant audiences. In 1922, at age 40, he appeared his first English-speaking Broadway play, The Red Poppy,(top photo):
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