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Dracula's Daughter

Dracula's Daughter
Draculas Doughter original Poster 1936.jpg
theatrical release poster
Directed by Lambert Hillyer
Produced by E. M. Asher
Screenplay by Garrett Fort
Based on Dracula
by Bram Stoker
Starring Otto Kruger
Gloria Holden
Marguerite Churchill
Music by Heinz Roemheld
Cinematography George Robinson
Edited by Milton Carruth
Production
company
Distributed by Universal Studios
Release date
  • May 11, 1936 (1936-05-11) (US)
Running time
71 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Budget $278,000

Dracula's Daughter is a 1936 American vampire horror film produced by Universal Studios as a sequel to the 1931 film Dracula. Directed by Lambert Hillyer from a screenplay by Garrett Fort, the film stars Otto Kruger, Gloria Holden in the title role, Marguerite Churchill and features, as the only cast member to return from the original, Edward Van Sloan – although his character's name was altered from Van Helsing to Von Helsing.

Dracula's Daughter tells the story of Countess Marya Zaleska, the daughter of Count Dracula and herself a vampire. Following Dracula's death, she believes that by destroying his body she will be free of his influence and can live as a human. When this fails, she turns to psychiatry and Dr. Jeffrey Garth. When his efforts fail, she kidnaps Janet, the woman Jeffrey loves, and flees with her to Transylvania in an attempt to bind Jeffrey to her. She is foiled and destroyed when her jealous manservant shoots her with an arrow.

Ostensibly based on a short story titled "Dracula's Guest" by Bram Stoker, the film bears little or no resemblance to the original source material. David O. Selznick initially purchased the rights to the story for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Selznick, probably knowing he could not legally make the film because of Universal's copyright on the original film, sold the rights to Universal. After first assigning the picture to James Whale, Universal production head Carl Laemmle, Jr. finally put Hillyer in the director's chair.


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