In fact, he's just a wax bust of Bela Lugosi.
Edward Van Sloan returns as Von Helsing, taken into custody after heving told the police he'd put a stake through the heart of the Count.
Gloria Holden is Countess Marya Zaleska, Dracula's daughter, come to make sure her father is truly dead in hopes it will free her from the curse of vampirism.
It doesn't.
She has her own servant, Sandor, who loves being EEEEEEEEEVIL. She tries to soothe herself after burning the Count's body, she imagines birds and dogs, while Sandor tells her they're bats and wolves.
"Sandor, look at me. What do you see in my eyes?"
"Death."
Of the Universal Dracula movies, Dracula's Daughter stands out because the monster, the vampire, doesn't want to be one. She longs to be normal. She sees a psychiatrist even.
No use. She can't escape her fate.
There is a heavy lesbian subtext here, her attempts to change her nature with the help of a doctor. When that doesn't work, she gives in to her need by choosing a street girl as her victim.
Dracula's Daughter actually made me a little melancholy, giving us a horror character as tragic as James Whale's Frankenstein's Monster .
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