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May 31, 2024 · Universal remade the film as a Technicolor musical melodrama in 1943 with Claude Rains, Nelson Eddy and Susanna Foster. The studio then released Hammer's 1962 remake with Herbert Lom. Enter Andrew Lloyd Webber, who created a worldwide phenomenom with his romantic musical version.
May 25, 2024 · The Phantom of the Opera, award-winning stage musical by composer Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyricists Charles Hart and Richard Stilgoe, adapted from Gaston Leroux ’s 1910 novel of the same name. A romantic melodrama, The Phantom of the Opera premiered in London’s West End on October 9, 1986, and began its Broadway run on January 26, 1988.
May 12, 2024 · He would have his revenge on these uninterested MGM beauties in his best-known film, The Phantom of the Opera (1925), where he terrorizes his beloved Christine (Mary Philbin) after she pulls off his mask and reveals a startled skull where a face should be—the impact of this famous image comes from the visual of a skull with seemingly human ...
May 17, 2024 · He played Quasimodo in The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1924) and Erik in The Phantom of the Opera (1925). Studios did not have dedicated makeup departments in the silent era, and Chaney’s versatility not only as a performer but also in makeup and costuming made him an asset.
May 18, 2024 · Jonathan improvises a live soundtrack to Lon Chaney’s 1925 silent movie, ‘The Phantom of the Opera’. Part of Gloucester Cathedral’s A Season of Silent Film.
May 27, 2024 · I made this list simply because I couldn't find anything else like it. Hopefully it can be of some use to my fellow Lon Chaney fans. The Oubliette….
1 day ago · In the 1925 silent film, The Phantom of the Opera, the “dialogue” is shown on title cards. The storyline is pretty much what you’d be familiar with if you’ve seen Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical version. (I have…eight times.) Lon Chaney (the elder) scared the crap out of filmgoers with his creepy makeup.
