The life and career of vaudevillian and silent screen horror star Lon Chaney, including his contentious relationship with his neurotic wife and his premature death.
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Cast
| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| James Cagney | ... | Lon Chaney | |
| Dorothy Malone | ... | Cleva Creighton Chaney | |
| Jane Greer | ... | Hazel Bennet Chaney | |
| Marjorie Rambeau | ... | Gert | |
| Jim Backus | ... | Clarence Locan | |
| Robert Evans | ... | Irving Thalberg (as Robert J. Evans) | |
| Celia Lovsky | ... | Mrs. Chaney | |
| Jeanne Cagney | ... | Carrie Chaney | |
| Jack Albertson | ... | Dr. J. Wilson Shields | |
| Roger Smith | ... | Creighton Chaney at 21 | |
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Robert Lyden | ... | Creighton Chaney at 13 |
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Rickie Sorensen | ... | Creighton Chaney at 8 |
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Dennis Rush | ... | Creighton Chaney at 4 |
| Nolan Leary | ... | Pa Chaney | |
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Simon Scott | ... | Carl Hastings |
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Loose biography of actor Lon Chaney. Growing up with deaf parents, he learns what it is like to be different. As an actor, he puts that knowledge (together with lots of make-up and talent) to use playing a variety of strange, unusual characters, adopting their characteristics so thoroughly as to be called the Man of a Thousand Faces. Written by Ken Yousten <kyousten@bev.net>
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portrait of abraham lincoln | looking at oneself in a mirror | crying woman | actor | mime |Taglines:
Only Two Women Knew The Secret Behind Lon Chaney, The Fabulous Man Of A Thousand Faces! See more »Parents Guide:
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Country:
USARelease Date:
19 November 1957 (West Germany) See more »Also Known As:
Der Mann mit den 1000 Gesichtern See more »Filming Locations:
Universal Studios - 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, California, USA See more »Company Credits
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Mono (Westrex Recording System)Color:
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(uncredited)
Written by James Pierpont (as James Lord Pierpont) (1857)
integrated into soundtrack when Chaney family reunites at Christmas
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This film starring James Cagney as Lon Chaney shows Chaney making a scene in The Miracle Man (1919). That film was based on a novel by Frank L. Packard and its stage adaptation by George M. Cohan, who acted in it himself (not in the same part as Chaney, though). And in Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942), Cagney had played Cohan. See more »Goofs
Lon Chaney was very much against Creighton entering into the film business. He most certainly did not present Creighton with his makeup case on his death bed. See more »Soundtracks
Jingle Bells(uncredited)
Written by James Pierpont (as James Lord Pierpont) (1857)
integrated into soundtrack when Chaney family reunites at Christmas
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This is the biography of famous actor Lon Chaney, portrayed by the more- famous James Cagney. Normally, I like biographies and I am a big, big fan of Cagney....but this film turned me off fairly quickly, and I wish the "Yankee Doodle" man had turned down this role.
Dorothy Malone plays an awful, selfish woman who was Chaney's first wife. She is so annoying I lost interest in this story. The scenes where Malone freaked out over Lon's parents being deaf and dumb, and her subsequent tirades, plus Chaney apologizing for his parent's physical handicaps - come on!! - totally turned me off.
It also looked strange to see Cagney in his mid '50s playing a guy in his early '20s. Give me a break! That was poor casting if I ever saw it. What a disaster this film turned out to be. I prefer to remember Mr. Cagney for his great roles in the 1930s and 1940s.....not stinkers like this.