Despite having co-starred along with most of the main leading ladies of the day, the super handsome David Manners (1900-1998) is today best known because of having taken part in some of the most important classic horror movies of all time, such as: "Dracula" (1931), "The Mummy" (1932) and "The Black Cat" (1934), where he would usually play the pretty guy in love with the girl-victim of the story. His movie career has to have been one of the most peculiar cases in Hollywood, as after only 6 years of having been working in it, he finally decided to leave movie industry in 1936, and would never regret about it. After that, David retired to live a peaceful-spiritual life in a ranch, occupying his time with book writing, painting and having always many friends around. It was a key time for him to find out much more about himself and his vision of the world. Although he's rarely remembered today other than because of his work in these early horror classics, his interesting filmography is certainly worthwhile of another revision, with more objective eyes, as he's seldom taken into account as an actor, most likely because of his good looks and lack of real interest in being a movie star. The bright side is that he lived a very long and succesful life, and I'm pretty sure he got to feel fulfilled enough, in every single sense, as not to care a bit about it.
