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Lon Chaney: The Man of a Thousand FacesFilm 10 of 14
Tell It to the Marines
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George W. Hill, MGM, 1926. Lon Chaney is Sergeant O’Hara, a peacetime Marine who drills William Haines’s slacker and loses ground to him with nurse Norma Shearer. Location work with the Corps; Chaney became the first film actor the Marines named an honorary member, a fact MGM did not underplay. No hump, no clown white. It was among 1926’s stronger grossers and a picture Chaney said he liked. China-station reels follow the boot-camp comedy. Haines is the grin. Chaney is the man who cannot quite say what the girl means to him.
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Lon Chaney: The Man of a Thousand Faces
No disguise. Sergeant O'Hara drills a slacker and loses the nurse to him, and Chaney does it with a jaw and a stance. The Marines made him an honorary member; MGM put it on the poster. This is the test the collection proposes, and he passes it.
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