 The actor wondered why the film version reduced the large mirror used in the play to the small cigarette box with a mirrored lid.Bernard Jukes, who played the role of Renfield in the play on Broadway and during the 1928 tour, wanted that part in the film, but it went to Dwight Frye instead.Tod Browning remembered actress Helen Chandler from the 1928 Broadway play "The Silent House" and based on that maiden performance chose her for Mina, the heroine, who becomes mistress to Bela Lugosi’s Count Dracula.