Bela Lugosi: Romanian, or Hungarian?

Rating: Null/10 (26 December 1998)

When Martin Landau did Bela Lugosi's trademark hypnotic hand gesture, he revealed the secret of it to Ed Wood, as being "double-jointed" and "Hungarian." Bela Lugosi was born in Romania, but anybody with an adequate amount of knowledge of central europe, also knows that parts of Romania contain a significant population of ethnic-Hungarians, most of which live in...TRANSYLVANIA!(No Joke!).Throughout Romanian history there has been strife between the two peoples, in fact, during WW2, Adolf Hitler took the Transylvanian province away from Romania and gave it to Hungary. So if Lugosi was an ethnic-Hungarian, then maybe that line wasn't a goof after all.
If anybody has any comments on this issue, feel free to speak up...and correct me, if you must.