Laugh, Clown, Laugh
1928 · 74 min · US
Directed by Herbert Brenon
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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Cast
Principal players
Crew
Elizabeth Meehan
writer
James Wong Howe
cinematographer
H. Scott Salinas
composer
Tom Cushing
writer
David Belasco
writer
