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Silent classic gets rock-star treatment at Arcada
... images from the 1923 movie, singers, dancers and musicians will retell Victor Hugo's classic tale. "Watching Lon Chaney's performance (as the hunchback Quasimodo) today is still electrifying," said Hayes. "It's the one-of-a-kind performance that a ...
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... tradition of soldier training-and-action tales, often centering on the Marines, going back to the silent era and Lon Chaney's "Tell It to the Marines." The late 1940s brought "Sands of Iwo Jima" with John Wayne. In the 1950s there was "The Halls of ...
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What on earth does 'Life on Mars' mean?
... as guest-programmer for a night on Turner Classic Movies. His choices include two silent classics starring Lon Chaney , ''The Phantom of the Opera'' (8 p.m.) and ''The Hunchback of Notre Dame'' (9:45). He also chose ''Rebecca'' (11:45) and ''Citizen ...
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... Theatre in St. Charles at 8 p.m. Nov. 22. "Vox Lumiere" is a unique live entertainment experience combining Lon Chaney's "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" into a multi-media event with a rock/pop-score, performed live with eight singers, a four piece ...
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... are both kind of dumb, and I didn't really care what happened to them, but the movie has two things going for it: Lon Chaney, very good as the Phantom, especially when you consider that he spends most of the movie wearing a weird-looking mask; and ...
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Re: The Hunchback of Notre Dame
... a meal of me. October 12, 2008, 09:55:00 AM #1 Re: The Hunchback of Notre Dame ('39) I am a big fan but prefer Lon Chaney's 1923 portrayal-although Charles Laughton puts so much personality into this Quasimodo & evokes pity-Lon did his own make-up ...
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Fyi: Free performance of Vox Lumiere tonight at Sandusky State Theatre
Free tickets are still available to Erie County residents for tonight's performance of VOX LUMIERE , a retelling of Lon Chaney's "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" that combines live music, live theater and silent ...
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Live performers to a stagea silent film a Hunchback of Notre Damea
... and silent film at 8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 22, in The Arcada Theatre in St. Charles. The troupe has transformed Lon Chaney's "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" into a 95-minute multimedia event with a high-energy, rock/pop score performed with eight ...
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Bradbury Picks Dark Classics for TCM
... impact on his young artistic mind. In his conversation with Osbourne, Bradbury delivers a passionate defense of Lon Chaney, star of two of his picks, "The Phantom of the Opera" and "The Hunchback of Notre Dame." 'His imagination was one thousand ...
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It's all so quiet... in Wiveliscombe
... Opera featuring a splendid two-strip Technicolor sequence during the masked ball. The film, made in 1925, stars Lon Chaney as the grotesquely disfigured anti-hero. The Phantom will be accompanied by Alan Eason and Andy McFarlane, the guitarist and ...
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... Theatre in St. Charles at 8 p.m. Nov. 22. "Vox Lumiere" is a unique live entertainment experience combining Lon Chaney's "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" into a multi-media event with a rock/pop-score, performed live with eight singers, a four piece ...
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Re: The Hunchback of Notre Dame
... a meal of me. October 12, 2008, 09:55:00 AM #1 Re: The Hunchback of Notre Dame ('39) I am a big fan but prefer Lon Chaney's 1923 portrayal-although Charles Laughton puts so much personality into this Quasimodo & evokes pity-Lon did his own make-up ...
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The Unholy Three at The Andy Warhol Museum
... in the Warhol's Unseen Treasures from the George Eastman House Film Series offered a few surprises. Unholy stars Lon Chaney (senior) as a sideshow ventriloquist who when the circus is shut down leads the strongman and the midget into a life of ...
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... and light. The big movie experience was on a rainy Saturday evening when 860 silver screen lovers thrilled to Lon Chaney's silent masterpiece "The Phantom of the Opera," accompanied by Ralph Ringstadt on the theater's Wonder Morton Organ. Those who ...
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... of a true gothic classic, 'The Phantom of the Opera,' on October 30. The film, released in 1925, features Lon Chaney as a very scary Phantom. Like the musical, it is based on the French novel of the same name by Gaston Leroux. ''Hearts of the ...
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Kim Morgan: Happy Halloween! Celebrate With Deadly Dummies
... decided to make it twice -- and with the same cast. Though these movies (one silent, the other most famously Lon Chaney's first and only talking picture) aren't technically dummy stories, ventriloquism plays such a key role in the picture's dirty ...
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Spooky Halloween Classic With a Twist
... a performance. Celebrate Halloween with the classic silent film "The Phantom of the Opera." The 1925, featuring Lon Chaney, will be shown at 80 p.m. at the Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco. The complete film will be shown on a big screen while ...
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Yipes, the pipes! Davies Hall breaks out the organ for a 'Phantom' Halloween
IT'S HORROR NIGHT in the symphony hall! An appropriately spooky event unfolds on the big screen in Davies Hall tonight, where the San Francisco Symphony is sponsoring a showing of the 1925 Lon Chaney classic ...
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Weekend Top 10 salutes 'Phantom of the Opera'
Theater organist Dennis James will play a live film score while the 1925 Lon Chaney classic "The Phantom of the Opera" plays onscreen at Davies Hall in San Francisco on Halloween night.
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... the show even without the visual assist. Black-and-white footage of Charles Ogle in "Frankenstein" (1910) or Lon Chaney in "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" (1923) was scary, but it was the groaning organ music that sent shivers down viewers' spines. ...
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