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The cover of the March 1960 issue of "Rogue" does list an article titled "The Clown at Midnight". QI has not yet found additional evidence supporting the attribution of the quotation to Lon Chaney. Chaney died in 1930. The final sentence with the word "essence" is a quotation directly from Bloch and not Chaney.
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Already a seasoned actress at age 14, she was cast in LAUGH, CLOWN, LAUGH as the young waif Chaney adopts. Although billed as Loretta, she was still referred to on the set by her real name, Gretchen. In a 1985 interview with this author, she recalled working with Chaney on the film: "Lon Chaney, I think, was one of the real geniuses in our.
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'Laugh, Clown, Laugh' was Lon Chaney's favourite of his own films, according to Robert Gordon Anderson's 1971 Chaney bio. As Tito Beppi, an Italian clown who adopts a foundling, Lon Chaney pulls the stops out: playing a wide range of emotions, even legitimately over-acting as a circus clown.
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Lon Chaney. Actor: He Who Gets Slapped. Although his parents were deaf, Leonidas Chaney became an actor and also owner of a theatre company (together with his brother John). He made his debut at the movies in 1912, and his filmography is vast. Lon Chaney was especially famous for his horror parts in movies like e.g. Quasimodo in The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923).
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In a famous quote often attributed to him, Lon Chaney says, "There's nothing funny about a clown at midnight." Perhaps there isn't, but there can be something memorable, chilling, and great. That's what Lon Chaney's legacy leaves us with… a clown at midnight. A trained, masterful entertainer bathed in a kind of unsettling darkness.
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The plot is old-fashioned in its unabashed embrace of melodrama (and, we must confess, its sexual politics): an itinerant clown, Tito (Chaney), takes in an abandoned child, Simonetta. Years later, after she's grown to adulthood (embodied by 14-year-old future movie star Loretta Young, in her first screen performance), Tito finds himself.
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Laugh, Clown, Laugh (1928) -- (Movie Clip) Child Of The Road Struggling to amuse a foundling girl, itinerant Italian clown Tito (Lon Chaney) persuades partner Simon (Bernard Siegel) to keep her by naming her "Simonetta," who grows up to 14-year-old Loretta Young, early in MGM's Laugh, Clown, Laugh, 1928.
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To call the 1924 silent film perhaps the creepiest and most disturbing film of Lon Chaney's. Given the star would be spending two-thirds of the film in clown makeup, casting Chaney seems to.
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A gifted clown (Lon Chaney) finds a little girl in the rushes, makes her laugh with his cockerel-based shadow puppetry and takes her under his wing (pun intended), naming her Simonella. When she grows to adulthood, and reveals a bit of shoulder, he realises he loves her in a different way - but then so does the count and reformed cad with whom.
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Lon Chaney in 1923. Lon Chaney (April 1, 1883 - August 26, 1930) was an American actor during the age of silent films.He is regarded as one of cinema's most versatile and powerful actors, renowned for his characterizations of tortured, sometimes grotesque and afflicted characters, and his groundbreaking artistry with makeup. Chaney is known for his starring roles in such silent horror films.
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Laugh, Clown, Laugh is a 1928 American silent drama film starring Lon Chaney and Loretta Young (her film debut). The movie was directed by Herbert Brenon and produced by Irving G. Thalberg for MGM Pictures.
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Laugh, Clown, Laugh is a 1928 American silent drama film starring Lon Chaney and Loretta Young. The movie was directed by Herbert Brenon and produced and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer . The film is based on the 1923 Broadway stage production Laugh, Clown, Laugh, by David Belasco and Tom Cushing , based on a 1919 play Ridi, Pagliaccio by.
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Laugh, Clown, Laugh is an American silent drama film, released on April 14th, 1928. The movie was directed by Herbert Brenon, and starred Lon Chaney and Loretta Young. The film was based on a 1923 Broadway production, which in turn was based on a 1919 Italian play.
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A clown named Tito Beppi (Lon Chaney) adopts orphaned Simonetta (Loretta Young), and they begin to travel and perform in the circus together. As Simonetta grows into a beautiful young woman, Tito.
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Laugh, Clown, Laugh: Directed by Herbert Brenon. With Lon Chaney, Bernard Siegel, Loretta Young, Cissy Fitzgerald. A professional clown and a self-indulgent count learn to help each other with their problems, but then become romantic rivals.
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Laugh, Clown, Laugh (1928) Posted on March 2, 2011 by sheila. Starring Lon Chaney as Tito the clown and Loretta Young as Simonetta, the young orphan-girl Tito rescued when she was a baby, who now is a tightrope-walker in his act. Chaney's heartbreaking performance has always reminded me of my friend Brett, with that same drive to please and.