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TODAY’S BLOCKBUSTER QUOTE

Dracula

20 October 2026 1931
Square Today’s Blockbuster Quote card for Dracula (1931), featuring Bela Lugosi’s line ‘I never drink... wine.’ with a symbolic cross-hatched wine goblet and context about Lugosi’s 20 October birthday and influence on the screen image of Dracula.

“I never drink... wine.”

Count Dracula · Bela Lugosi

Why today

20 October is Bela Lugosi’s birthday. Dracula is featured today because his 1931 performance, shaped by more than 350 stage performances in the role, helped define cinema’s Count Dracula and the screen vampire itself. Greeting Renfield at the castle, he delivers the immortal line: “I never drink... wine.”

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