Frank Sinatra, fresh off the success of his album, In the Wee Small Hours, was quietly contributing to Lugosi's mental health fund.
He'd hoped, like his contemporary, Boris Karloff, to win the hearts and minds of not just fans but critics, too.
When his son, Bela Jr.
According to The Vintage News, 100,000 Austro-Hungarian soldiers perished in the battle, and Lugosi was promoted to.
His professional status made him exempt from the draft, but he signed up anyway and was made a lieutenant in the 43rd Royal Hungarian Infantry.
As biography notes, he was fired from gigs roughly 20 times over the next two decades for incompetence.