But our marriage would survive, as it would if Heather was to have a daliance. Heather and I will be together for ever - no one else will ever get the key to my heart, but that's not to say I won't ever walk into a room and feel an instant attraction to someone else. So much importance is put on the sexual side of a relationship and the ability to be faithful. If you can put up with that, I'll happily get married." Incredibly, she said yes. SO I was honest and said, "Look, I'm in a rock band, I've got loads of other girlfriends and I'm not going to give any of them up. I wanted to do the right thing again by marrying her, but at the same time I still felt that I had so much more living to do. Roger Daltrey: - We lived together for four years before Heather decided that she'd like to have children. I was instantly besotted, but terrified at the same time. As bizarre as it sounds, she was a friend of a friend and the pair of them moved into my flat because they had nowhere else to stay. Roger Daltrey: - I didn't have any intention of ever getting married again - The Who was touring the world and we had hit singles both here and in the US - but then I met Heather. Roger took her to Woodstock with him in 1969. Attitudes have changed since 1936, although it’s hard to accept the advice of the New York Times, which concluded ‘Be sure to bring the kiddies!’.Met during a tour of America around 1968, moved in together, and married three years later. But with surprising emphasis on hypnosis, this is a personable film that strains at the leash in terms of full-blooded sexuality. For legal reasons, various aspects of the production had to be carefully measured for censorship and copyright issues, and the result is more of a success for lawyers that viewers. That makes this female vampire rather remote, and dampens down the fun in a second half that pretty much replays the race to Transylvania that most films on this subject end with.īased on the story Dracula’s Guest by Bram Stoker, Dracula’s Daughter is a little staid by today’s standards, and has become something of a rarity, not currently streaming in the UK. Unfortunately, The Countess is played in a rather off-hand fashion by Gloria Holden, who reputedly did not care for the role or the genre. The Hays Code had previously created strict rules about content, and it’s rather surprising that this film came out so stridently against the grain. Yup, Dracula’s Daughter is LGBTQ audience-friendly, and that’s something of a surprise in 1936. That’s not easy, however, since the Countess kicks off a hot streak with actress-turned model Lili (Nan Grey), getting her to pose nude for her before sinking her teeth into her neck… You see, the Countess does not want to follow in her dad’s career-path, and seeks to purify herself of all vampire instincts. That is, until the intervention of Countess Marya Zaleska, Dracula’s daughter, who steals her father’s body and sets it ablaze on a pyre. Whitby’s finest allow Von Helsing to talk his way out of jail-time, and they come to an agreement to say no more about this unsavoury matter. In a startlingly direct into, we go back to the end of the film (and novel) to find Van Helsing, now Von Helsing (Edward Van Sloan) arrested on the scene of Dracula’s staking, the vampire’s form is seen prostrate in the background. Dracula’s Daughter is something rather different from the usual horror fare, and it’s worth de-staking this particular vampire, a gal-pal version somewhat ahead of it’s time by a good eighty years. “Save the women of London from Dracula’s Daughter!” ran an original advertising line for Lambert Hillyer’s neglected horror sequel from 1936.
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