
Carla Laemmle in the late 1920s.
Carla was the niece of Universal Pictures founder Carl Laemmle and got early film roles in 1925’s PHANTOM OF THE OPERA as well as a part in the 1931 DRACULA with Bela Lugosi, where she famously spoke the film’s first lines: “Among the rugged peaks that frown down upon the Borgo Pass are found crumbling castles of a bygone age …. ” Ms. Laemmle lived to be 104.
This is a very different look from the one she sported in that scene.