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in 1878. He had known Wilde from their student days, and had proposed Wilde for membership of the university's Philosophical Society while he was president. Wilde was upset at Florence's decision, but Stoker later resumed the acquaintanceship and after Wilde's fall visited him on the Continent.
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to edit it for the New York stage. The show ran for a year on Broadway and for two more years on tour, breaking all previous records for any show put on tour in the United States. However, Liveright failed to pay Florence all her entitlements for the show – he died shortly afterwards.
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was prompt and uncompromising; not only did she want the financial reparation she felt was due to the estate, she demanded that the negative and all prints of the film (which she would never actually see) be immediately destroyed.
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screenwriter Henrik Galeen had changed the names of the main characters and made some liberal changes to certain key points. However, the resemblance to Stoker's novel was undeniable.
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Despite this ruling, prints of the film slowly began to resurface in the late 1920s, with the first American screenings taking place in New York City and Detroit in 1929.
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Florence Balcombe outlived her husband by 25 years and died in 1937 at the age of 78. She was cremated at
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Balcombe launched a lawsuit in which she was represented by the lawyers of the British Incorporated
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The Stokers moved to London, where he became acting-manager and then business manager of
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Balcombe is remembered for her legal dispute with the makers of the 1922 German
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Hollywood Gothic: The Tangled Web of Dracula From Novel to Stage to Screen
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bought the American dramatic rights from Florence and hired
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In Search of Dracula: The History of Dracula and Vampires
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Balcombe did grant the rights to the stage adaptation of
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The daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel James Balcombe of 1
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Balcombe was struggling financially and, as Stoker's
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Snowbound: The Record of a Theatrical Touring Party
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Florence Stoker

Falmouth, Cornwall
Knightsbridge
Bram Stoker
literary executor
Bram Stoker
Nosferatu
Dracula
Marino Crescent
Clontarf
Oscar Wilde
Dublin
Henry Irving
Lyceum Theatre, London

Golders Green Crematorium
horror film
Nosferatu
Dracula
Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau
Berlin
Berlin Zoological Garden
handbill
literary executor
copyright infringement
Society of Authors
Hamilton Deane
Dracula
Derby

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