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Freaks (MGM 1932)
Made by MGM in the autumn of 1931 and released the following year, Freaks used real sideshow ‘freaks’ among its cast of performers and […]
Man Who Laughs, The [...]
Universal had enjoyed huge success with The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923) and The Phantom of the Opera (1925), both starring Lon Chaney, and […]
Johnny Eck – the [...]
John Eckhardt Jr, known simply as Johnny Eck, and his twin brother Robert were born on the 27th of August, 1911 in Baltimore, Maryland. […]
Wallace Ford
Wallace Ford was born Samuel Jones Grundy in Bolton, Lancashire, England on the 12th of February, 1898. At the age of seven, he was […]
