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12 mag 2024 · In April of 1913, Creighton went to the Majestic Theater in Los Angeles, where Chaney was managing a show, and attempted suicide by swallowing mercuric chloride. Though she lived, her singing voice was ruined. This supposedly caused a scandal in theater circles, and Chaney was forced to look for work in motion pictures to make his ...
2 giorni fa · Released 24 November 1928, with a synchronised score and sound effects, to reflect fast-paced industry innovations in the wake of The Jazz Singer (1927), Tod Browning’s West of Zanzibar is the director’s most impressively lurid work and the best film he made with Lon Chaney after 1927’s The Unknown.
15 mag 2024 · "I wanted to remind people that the lowest types of humanity may have within them the capacity for supreme self-sacrifice. The dwarfed, misshapen beggar of t...
3 giorni fa · The Scotland Yard inspector and forensic hypnotist in charge, "Professor" Edward C. Burke (Lon Chaney) receives no reports of foul play and the death is deemed a suicide. Five years past, and the estates current occupants are alarmed by a ghoulish, fanged figure wearing a cape and top hat stalking the hallways at night.
4 giorni fa · Lon Chaney:As "The Man of a Thousand Faces," Lon Chaney mesmerized audiences with his transformative performances and mastery of makeup and prosthetics. From...
4 giorni fa · A few fun facts about London After Midnight/Lon Chaney: Tod Browning, based on his story “The Hypnotist”, remade the film as a talkie in 1935, as Mark of the Vampire, starring Bela Lugosi. Lon Chaney was also known for scaring the canned goods out of people as Quasimodo in The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923) and The Phantom of the Opera (1925).
3 giorni fa · Lon Chaney Jr. lacks the versatility of his chameleon-like father, but he brings a certain pathos to his arrogant American stricken by a curse. Thanks to The Wolf Man, Universal got its third icon, a character who would stand side-by-side with Dracula and Frankenstein. 12. The Phantom Of The Opera (1925)
