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Audiences rate it 13 points higher than critics do.
Synopsis
The turbulent life and professional career of vaudeville actor and silent screen horror star Lon Chaney (1883-1930), the man of a thousand faces; bearer of many personal misfortunes that even his great success could not mitigate.
Ratings
IMDb7.1/10
Rotten Tomatoes80%
Metacritic58/100
Audiences rate it 13 points higher than critics do.
45 audience votes
Key crew
- Joseph PevneyDirector
- Ben RobertsScreenplay
- R. Wright Campbell Screenplay
- Ivan GoffScreenplay
- Frank SkinnerOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- James CagneyLon Chaney
- Dorothy MaloneCleva Creighton Chaney
- Jane GreerHazel Bennet Chaney
- Marjorie RambeauGert
- Jim BackusClarence Locan
- Robert EvansIrving Thalberg
- Celia LovskyMrs. Chaney
- Jeanne CagneyCarrie Chaney
- Jack AlbertsonDr. J. Wilson Shiels
- Roger SmithCreighton Chaney (at 21)
- Robert LydenCreighton Chaney (at 13)
- Rickie SorensenCreighton Chaney (at 8)
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Themes
husband wife relationshipmovie businesspregnancydeaf-mutebiographyhistorical figuremakeupfilmmakingex-husband ex-wife relationshipclown makeup1920s1910s