Lon Chaney and Mary Philbin in The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
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Laugh, Clown, Laugh! (1928)
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Uldis Klavins - Lon Chaney Sr. "The Phantom Of The Opera” and “The Creature From The Black Lagoon” (1981) packaging for Remco's 9" line of Universal Monsters action figures
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Michael McQuary in a tribute to Lon Chaney, Sr. in “Phantom Of The Opera“.
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While voting a movie the best of all time only a decade or two after the advent of film is admittedly not that impressive in retrospect, at the time The Miracle Man was considered a better film than Chaplin’s The Kid and Griffith’s Broken Blossoms, which are now generally regarded as masterpieces. The Miracle Man was also the top-grossing film of 1919, out-performing Broken Blossoms for the year and featuring Lon Chaney Sr. as a guy named the Frog who can dislocate his limbs. In short, this movie must have been amazing.
But we’ll probably never know, because it’s presumed lost. There are so many early movies that might’ve been mind-blowing masterpieces, but we took so little care in preserving them that they’re lost forever.
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Lon Chaney, Sr, in Treasure Island (1920)
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Lon Chaney, Sr., the master with his makeup box.
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I wish to God that the original ending of Phantom of the Opera 1925 could be viewed. I hope someone finds the film reels in a warehouse or a box or a drawer or something, because I DESPERATELY want to see it. If they managed to restore it it would officially be the most book accurate adaptation of Phantom (I think it might be anyways but just. Extra points)
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Lon Chaney and Mary Philbin in The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
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Photo from the set of 1925's Phantom of the Opera staring Lon Chaney. It is believed this production still depicts the first ever "dab", a move later popularized by stars from Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford to legendary artist Skippa Da Flippa.
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