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Lon Chaney: The Man of a Thousand FacesFilm 12 of 14
Laugh, Clown, Laugh
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Herbert Brenon, MGM, 1928, from the David Belasco and Tom Cushing play. Lon Chaney is Tito, a circus clown who raises an abandoned child, Simonetta (Loretta Young, fifteen, billed as Gretchen), and realizes he loves her when Nils Asther’s count does too. He goes to a doctor because he cannot stop the grief that is also his act. Chaney asked for Young and worked without heavy appliances. Seventy-four minutes. The smile is painted on because that is the job. Young later said he treated her as a partner, not a prop.
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Lon Chaney: The Man of a Thousand Faces
A clown who raises a girl and then cannot stop loving her, and the smile is painted on because that is the job. Loretta Young at fifteen, and Chaney asked for her. No heavy appliances. Watch the doctor's office, where he cannot stop crying and calls it his act.
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