Lon Chaney, Sr.

...Carl Laemmle Jr. loved Nosferatu, bought the film rights to Dracula, and set out to make a large-scale silent film of it starring Lon Chaney Sr., who had already starred in Universal's epics The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923) and The Phantom...

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I bought one of the original Lon Chaney makeup boxes that a guy who did a biography on Jack Pierce had bought from one of Lon Chaney Sr.'s maids. The box that according to the story she gave him, the box that Chaney was taking his makeup...

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...to the 1925 silent film classic at Trinity Cathedral, Sixth Avenue, Downtown. The famous film (not the musical!) starring a creepy Lon Chaney was originally seen with some sort of instrumental accompaniment, and the Baltimore-based...

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...Don Kinnear, considered one of the best silent-film accompanists in the Northeast, will accompany a Halloween screening of the Lon Chaney-starring 1923 production of The Hunchback of Notre Dame Saturday at 8 p.m. at Old Pine Street...

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..."The Bullwinkle Show," which is aces in my book. In the hands of the writers of "Fractured Flickers," "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" with Lon Chaney became "Dinky Dunston, Boy Cheerleader. " Wild animal footage was recut and became "Jungle...

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...want to make a debonair impact on the Halloween party circuit, you can become a suave Phantom of the Opera (picture Gerald Butler, not Lon Chaney) in one of Haperman's Venetian-style guises ($100 to $600) crafted from leather, gold leaf...

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...simply titled Dracula, is worth checking out if you haven't, especially if you have already seen the Universal classic. Tricky Trivia: Lon Chaney (Universal's "Phantom of the Opera") was originally slated to play the title role, but...

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...Wounded Knee,' 'By the People: The Election of Barack Obama,' 'Vertigo,' 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show' The Organ Loft's presentation of Lon Chaney's 1925 masterpiece "The Phantom of the Opera." Blaine Gale, in mask and cape, accompanies on...

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...series will be playing the 1925 silent version of "The Phantom of the Opera." Directed by Rupert Julian, the movie stars film legend Lon Chaney as the titular specter, with Mary Philbin as his scarily beloved, Christine. The film is justly...

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...age such as Clark Gable, Jean Harlow and Carole Lombard. Other entertainment icons buried at Forest Lawn include Humphrey Bogart, Lon Chaney, Nat King Cole, Walt Disney, Errol Flynn and Jimmy Stewart. Although open to the public, the...

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