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Man of a Thousand Faces

Summary: The life and career of vaudevillian and silent-screen horror star Lon Chaney, including his contentious relationship with his neurotic wife and his premature death.

Release Date: November 19, 1957

Genres: Drama, Biography

Director: Joseph Pevney

Writers: R. Wright Campbell

Runtime: 2 h 02 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Universal International Pictures (UI)

Distributor: Universal Pictures, MCA/Universal Home Video, Image Entertainment, Universal Studios Home Video, Universal Studios, TGG Direct, Arrow Video

Country: United States

Language: English

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abuse of deaf people acid actor adolescent boy adulteress applause applying makeup ashamed of parent autonomous shadow backstage bad dream based on true story bedroom begins with text behind the scenes bigotry black maid bloody nose broom brother brother relationship brushing hair cabin cancer career woman casting director chalkboard child custody child's bedroom child's bedtime childbirth chinese american chocolate pie chorus girl christmas christmas tree clown clown act coin trick colorado springs colorado comedian comedy filmmaking comedy team contortionist contract cook cough coughing courtroom cross dressing crying boy crying on a bed crying woman cuckold damaged vocal cords dance dancer dancing dancing with a mannequin dancing with one's mother deaf man deaf mute deaf parent deaf person deaf woman deafness deathbed disfigurement disguised as an old woman divorce court doctor spanks newborn door bell drawing dressing room drinking acid dying father dying husband dysfunctional marriage eight year old elderly woman entertainment reporter ex husband ex wife relationship ex wife new wife relationship expectant mother extramarital affair eyepatch face slap facial scar fake accent fake mustache fake scar falling into water fame familial hug familial kiss family secret fatal disease father in law daughter in law relationship father son estrangement father son reconciliation father son relationship film within a film filmmaker filmmaking fired from a job fishing flag at half mast flooded room foster child foster home four year old freelance writer given the hook glove gold nugget gramophone grandfather grandson relationship grandmother grandson relationship handheld mirror hollywood california honking a horn honorary title honorary uncle horror filmmaking housekeeper hugging one's grandson hugging one's son husband versus wife's career husband wife relationship impatient audience insanity investigative reporter irving thalberg character jealous husband jealous wife jealous woman judge kissing one's son lapel flower late for new job late for work leaving one's husband legless man limp limping lon chaney character looking at oneself in a mirror los angeles california lying to a child lying to one's son makeup makeup case man dances with a man man slaps a woman mannequin mansion mascara running matinee memorial mime mob of reporters monster makeup mother abandons son mother in law mother of unborn baby mother son relationship movie actor movie contract movie extra movie makeup movie producer movie script movie star music box mute mysterious man native american newborn newspaper newspaper photographer newspaper reporter orchestra organ packing pantomime pianist piano pie fight pie in the face portrait of abraham lincoln pregnancy press agent press book prologue prothesis psychotronic film public relations publicity publicity shy punched in the face punching a photographer quarrel between married couple rags to riches raspy voice real life brother and sister playing brother and sister reference to al jolson reference to quasimodo reference to richard mansfield reference to sherlock holmes rehearsal saying grace scandal scene before opening credits shadow showbiz sign language silent filmmaking silent movie actor silent movie star singer sister in law sketch slapstick comedy sneeze sneezing sore throat spanking a newborn spotlight spurned female spurned woman stage stage act stage actor stage curtain stepmother stepson relationship studio cop studio doctor suicide attempt suitcase sweeping teenage boy tennis racket throat cancer toddler told in flashback tonsillectomy tonsils tramp tribute to actor trout turkey as food vaudeville ventriloquist dummy waltz western filmmaking wet clothes wet dress whipping whispering wife leaves her husband woman proposes marriage wooden leg year 1930

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