Joe Biden was born on November 20, 1942, in the state of Pennsylvania. Biden started his professional life as an attorney, having studied law at Syracuse University Law School after graduating from the University of Delaware in 1965. However, he is most famously known for serving as Vice President alongside the 44th President, Barack Obama, and has spent the majority of his professional career in politics.
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Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock was a British film director and producer whose career spanned over 50 years. His films earned him the nickname The Master of Suspense. Hitchcock was a master of the plot twist, loved to push the boundaries of what censors would allow, and was a technical innovator. He was also known for making short cameo appearances in many of his films. From 1955 to 1965, Hitchcock hosted and produced a television series entitled Alfred Hitchcock Presents. Hitchcock was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II in 1980. He never won an Academy Award for the direction of a film, but his movies, the actors, and the writers garnered fifty nominations and many awards.
Béla Ferenc Dezsö Blaskó was born October 20, 1882, in Lugos, Hungary, located near the Western border of the Transylvanian Alps to parents István Blaskó and Paula de Vojnich. The youngest of 4 children, Bela grew up preferring acting to schoolwork – leading him at an early age to pursue a career following this passion. At this time, Béla adopted the professional surname “Lugosi” after the town in which he was raised. By the early 1900s, Lugosi was an established actor in Hungary, becoming a member of the National Theater of Budapest in 1911 where he was highly regarded for his versatility.
During World War I, Lugosi left his established stage career to serve his country as part of the Hungarian ski patrol in the Forty-third Infantry Regiment of the Austro-Hungarian Army, where he was eventually wounded on the Russian front. As a result of political unrest in Hungary following World War I, Lugosi fled to Vienna and then to Germany where he continued his acting career, until being forced to flee again to the United States aboard a merchant ship as a crewman.
Upon arriving in America, Lugosi continued to pursue his career on the stage and in film, receiving his big break in 1927 when he landed the leading role in the Broadway production of Dracula. The show ran for 33 weeks on Broadway and was followed by two years of touring. Lugosi’s performance in the 1929 film The Thirteenth Chair drew the attention of Universal Studios, and although Bela Lugosi was not the studio’s first choice, he was ultimately chosen for the title role of Dracula in the 1931 Universal Studios film. His unique portrayal would define the standard for all future interpretations of the character.
This Elvira bobblehead is part of Royal Bobbles’ collection of pop icons. This collection features icons in pop culture, whom we all love and cherish. The talented actress Cassandra Peterson is the creator of this well-known witchy and vampire-like character on the show, “Elvira’s Movie Macabre.” When you hear the name Elvira, only one person comes to mind: Halloween icon and quintessential symbol of all things spooky, the one and only Mistress of the Dark. In 1981, who could have imagined the hostess of a local Hollywood Horror movie show would grow to become a household name? Elvira was the first horror host ever to be syndicated nationally and has emerged as one of the most original and outrageous characters in popular culture today. Elvira’s reign as ‘Queen of Halloween’ has now spanned thirty-five years and includes two feature films (“Elvira, Mistress of the Dark,” and “Elvira’s Haunted Hills”) as well as hundreds of TV shows and live appearances.