"Among the rugged peaks..." So begins one of the great horror films, Dracula. Carla Laemmle, niece of Universal Studios founder Carl Laemmle, uttered those words in the opening scene of this 1931 film. At age 99, she is the last living cast member of the silent film "Phantom of the Opera" starring Lon Chaney (1925), and is more than likely the last cast member of Dracula. She still loves that fans continue to write to her after so many years have passed since her film career. In the drawing she is the one with glasses in the lower left, who has taken a tumble in the coach. She also wrote a touching letter about her Uncle Carl's efforts to sponsor the immigration of Jews from his native Germany, saving them from the Holocaust.
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