Like Le Fanu, Stoker created compelling female vampire characters such as Lucy Westenra and the Brides of Dracula.

* Anthony Hinds, as John Elder-writer of The Brides of Dracula, The Curse of the Werewolf and others

Towards the end of his career he also appeared in cameo roles in several Hammer horror films, with a fairly large role in The Brides of Dracula as the hypochondriac and fee-hungry local doctor.

* The Brides of Dracula ( 1960 ) as Dr. Tobler

This led to her appearing in the work of Edgar Allan Poe, and as the vampire, notably in Carmilla and Brides of Dracula.

* The Brides of Dracula

For the 2009 Full Flash Blank tour, Jack used a drum head with the Three Brides of Dracula on the front, but in 2010, Jack employs a new drum head, upon the release of Sea of Cowards, which has an image of The Third Man himself: Harry Lime attempting to escape certain capture in the sewers of Vienna.

Van Helsing, as seen in The Brides of Dracula.

Peter Cushing played J. in Horror of Dracula ( 1958 ), The Brides of Dracula ( 1960 ).

Some of her other films include Anna Karenina ( 1948 ), My Sister and I ( 1948 ), The Fan ( 1949 ), Folly to be Wise ( 1952 ), The March Hare ( 1956 ), Anastasia ( 1956 ), Three Men in a Boat ( 1956 ), The Admirable Crichton ( 1957 ), The Brides of Dracula ( 1960 ), The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm ( 1962 ), Becket ( 1964 ), The Unsinkable Molly Brown ( 1964 ) and Bunny Lake Is Missing ( 1965 ).

* The Brides of Dracula ( 1960 )

# The Brides of Dracula ( 1960 )

She is later seen trying to sleep while being seduced by 3 vampy women while the Beast sits in a chair ( a reference to Dracula and the Brides ).

:* The Brides of Dracula ( 1960 ) – the first in the sequence which doesn't feature Lee in the lead role.

Originally intended to be the third movie in Hammer's Dracula series ( which began with Dracula and was followed by The Brides of Dracula ); it was another attempt by Hammer to make a Dracula sequel without Christopher Lee.

The final script, by Anthony Hinds makes no reference to Dracula, and expands further on the directions taken in Brides by portraying vampirism as a social disease afflicting those who choose a decadent lifestyle.

The film's climax, involving black magic and swarms of bats, was originally intended to be the ending of The Brides of Dracula, but the star of that film Peter Cushing objected that Van Helsing would never resort to black sorcery.

In fact, Hammer employed a number of other composers, including Franz Reizenstein ( The Mummy, 1959 ), Malcolm Williamson ( The Brides of Dracula, 1960 ) and Tristram Cary ( Quatermass and the Pit, 1967, and Blood from the Mummy's Tomb, 1971 ).

: For the characters from the novel, see Brides of Dracula.

The Brides of Dracula is a 1960 British Hammer Horror film directed by Terence Fisher.

Shooting began for The Brides of Dracula on 16 January 1960 at Bray Studios.

Brides who are virgins may make use of the veil to symbolize and emphasize their status of purity during their wedding however, and if they do, the lifting of the veil may be ceremonially recognized as the crowning event of the wedding, when the beauty of the bride is finally revealed to the groom and the guests.

The Brides of Khaine, commonly known as the Witch Elves, are one of the forces in the ranks of the Dark Elves ; while the Craftworld Eldar can summon the Avatar of Khaine.

Other events created by the Society are: the Atomic Cafe, the Chinese New Year ’ s Treasure Hunt, the picnic on the Golden Gate Bridge, the Brides of March, Urban Iditarod, and the Sewer Walk.

The most savage sect of Khaine worshippers are known as the Brides of Khaine, more commonly called Witch Elves ( or Maibd in the Dark Elf language ).

Although the three vampire women in Dracula are popularly referred to as the " Brides of Dracula ", they are never referred to as such in the novel, instead referred to as the ' sisters '; whether they are married to Dracula or not is never mentioned, nor are they described as having any other relation to him.

While the Brides usually remain nameless, they are called Marishka, Aleera, and Verona ( played by actresses Josie Maran, Elena Anaya and Silvia Colloca, respectively ) in the 2004 film Van Helsing.

For the first time, the Brides are more than brief background, becoming important minions of Dracula and powerful combatants.

In Dracula 2000, the Brides are composed of Dracula victims he bites upon his awakening and journeying to New Orleans.

In the first sequel, The Bloody Red Baron, the Brides of Dracula are mentioned as including Mata Hari, Lady Marikova ( from the novel The House of Dracula by Ronald Chetwynd-Hayes ), Lola-Lola ( from the film The Blue Angel ), Sadie Thompson, Lemora, and the Baron Meinster ( from the film The Brides of Dracula ).

In The Diaries of the Family Dracul by Jeanne Kalogridis, the Brides are imagined as Zsuzsanna Tsepesh, a descendant of Vlad Dracul ( believed in the novels to be his niece ); Dunya, a Transylvanian servant of Vlad's mortal descendants, and Elisabeth Bathory, the notorious Hungarian noblewoman who murdered hundreds of her servants and bathed in their blood.

The Brides are seen in the DC Comics mini series, Victorian Undead II: Sherlock Holmes vs Dracula.

Antonio's only recurring TV guest role character was on Here Come the Brides, but he made multiple appearances as different characters on 1960s and 1970s series like The Rookies, Mission: Impossible, Gunsmoke, The Fugitive, Twelve O ' Clock High, Star Trek ( in the memorable episode " Let That Be Your Last Battlefield ", in which he played the half-white, half-black alien pursued by the oppositely half-black, half-white alien played by Frank Gorshin ), I Dream of Jeannie, and The Defenders.

In Honoré de Balzac's novel Letters of Two Brides, two women who became friends during their education at a convent correspond over a 17 year period, exchanging letters describing their lives.

* Canadian novelist Paul Anderson devoted 12 years writing a 1300 page novel entitled Hunger's Brides ( pub.

* The sheela na gig of St Brides Church, Bridelow in the English Peak District, features prominently as a plot device in Phil Rickman's novel The Man in the Moss.

Barbara Hambly's Star Trek novel Ishmael has Spock travelling back to the time and place of Here Come the Brides after discovering a Klingon plot to destroy the Federation by killing Aaron Stempel ( spelled " Stemple " in the book ) before he could thwart an attempted 19th-century alien invasion of Earth.

He appeared in an episode of Here Come the Brides, as well as two episodes each of Love, American Style and My Two Dads.

A planned 1972 U. S. network television screening of the 1966 Warner Bros. film The Brides of Fu Manchu was cancelled due to protests from an Asian anti-defamation group.

Within the following six years, Sixx played in the bands 58 and Brides of Destruction, while Lee formed Methods of Mayhem and performed as a solo artist.

Guns, Trapt, Faster Pussycat, Black Veil Brides, Hollywood Trash ( Canadian Rock band from the early 1990s ) and Supergroupies among others.

Shows have included My Fair Lady, Anything Goes and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers.

The War Brides Act of 1945 permitted soldiers to bring back their foreign wives and established precedent in naturalization through marriage.

His next role, in War Brides opposite Nazimova, attracted the attention of legendary director D. W. Griffith, who offered him several important roles, finally casting him opposite Lillian Gish in Broken Blossoms ( 1919 ) and Way Down East ( 1920 ).

Crawford in Rain ( 1932 film ) | Rain ( 1932 ) With the early sound film, Our Blushing Brides ( 1930 ), another financial success, MGM began to develop a more sophisticated image of Crawford, rather than continuing to promote her flapper girl persona of the silent era.

Among MGM's most notable soundtrack albums were those of the films Good News, Easter Parade, Annie Get Your Gun, Singin ' in the Rain, Show Boat, The Band Wagon, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, and Gigi.

* Boose, Linda E. " Scolding Brides and Bridling Scolds: Taming the Woman's Unruly Member ", Shakespeare Quarterly, 42: 2 ( Summer, 1991 ), 179 – 213

Brides once used to wear their hair flowing down their back at their wedding to symbolise their virginity.

The 1954 movie Seven Brides for Seven Brothers is a classic film musical about seven lumberjack brothers who, in the spirit of the Roman story of the The Rape of the Sabine Women, decide to kidnap brides for themselves from the neighboring town.

That same year, he composed the soundtrack to all episodes of the TV series Seven Brides for Seven Brothers.

Two songs from 1982's Seven Brides for Seven Brothers also appear on the album.

The Walton's house facade was built on the Here Come the Brides set on the Columbia Ranch studio, now one of the Warner Brothers studios.

In 1917, while still in distribution, the Warners had secured the rights for War Brides, a film that featured Alla Nazimova as " a woman who kills herself rather than breed children for an unidentified country whose army looks suspiciously Teutonic.

and Here Come the Brides among many others.