"One day I told Bela Lugosi that his daughter had come to call for him, and he said, 'She is my wife'. I wanted to sink through the floor for being so tactless! It might have hurt him, but I wouldn't have done that for the world because he was such a charming man, very soft and very congenial..." da un'intervista del 1986.

(Frances Drake, pseudonimo di Frances Dean, attrice; New York, 22 ottobre 1912 – Irvine, 18 gennaio 2000)