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Lon Chaney HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME vintage #978258

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Lon Chaney HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME vintage #978258
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Lon Chaney Sr. as The Hunchback of Notre Dame, c. 19243
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Rare vintage gelatin silver print, c. 1924

8 x 10 inches (20.3 x 25.4 cm.)

Provanance: Forrest Ackerman Collection
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1920 saw the first outing of interest to horror fans of the silent period's most famous character actor, Lon Chaney Sr, when he appeared in director Wallace Worsley's The Penalty. Worsley and Chaney teamed up more famously for this classic 1923 film version of Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Chaney's career-making turns in Hunchback and as Gaston Leroux's Phantom of the Opera (1925) which Chaney himself co-directed, would forever seal his credentials as an actor of considerable skill and of one of the early stars of what after 1930 would become the horror genre. His performance as Quasimodo in the 1923 film remains a spectacular showcase for his athleticism and physicality as an actor, prefiguring the arrival of later actors like Burt Lancaster. For modern audiences, Hunchback is probably one of the most accessible of the early silent movies. The film has aged well and the scale of its sets and set pieces will be a pleasant surprise to many. Both Phantom and Hunchback were products of entrepeneur Carl Laemmle's fledgling Universal Film Manufacturing Company, later to become Universal Studios - the Hollywood home of horror movies - as producers of Dracula, Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein. Chaney would equally go on to become Universal's most bankable star in the silent period ...
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<tr><td>Condition:Very good</td></tr>
<tr><td>Year:1924</td></tr>
<tr><td>Country:USA</td></tr>

<tr><td>Height:8</td></tr>

<tr><td>Width:10</td></tr>

<tr><td>Title:Lon Chaney HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME vintage</td></tr>



<tr><td>Location:New York</td></tr>
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