![Jack P Pierce](https://www.classic-monsters.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Jack-P-Pierce_main-170x120.jpg)
Monster make-up maestro Jack P Pierce was born Janus Piccoula, on the 5th of May, 1889, in Valdetsyou, Greece. Immigrating to the United States […]
![Phantom of the Opera montage](https://www.classic-monsters.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Phantoms2-170x120.jpg)
Of all our favourite classic monsters, Gaston Leroux’s Phantom of the Opera has proved almost as enduring as Dracula and the Frankenstein Monster. Filmed […]
![The Phantom of the Opera (Gaston Leroux 1910)](https://www.classic-monsters.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Phantom-front-cover-170x120.jpg)
The first serialised part of the novel Le Fantôme de l’Opéra, which would become The Phantom of the Opera, was published in Le Gaulois […]
![The Phantom of the Opera (Gaston Leroux 1910)](https://www.classic-monsters.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Phantom-back-cover-170x120.jpg)
The first serialised part of the novel Le Fantôme de l’Opéra, which would become The Phantom of the Opera, was published in Le Gaulois […]
![The Phantom of the Opera (Universal 1925)](https://www.classic-monsters.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Phantom-of-the-Opera-The_08_main-170x120.jpg)
Universal’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923) had proved immensely successful for both the Laemmles and its star, Lon Chaney. Chaney’s grotesque make-up for […]
![Irving Thalberg](https://www.classic-monsters.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Irving-Thalberg-170x120.jpg)
Film producer Irving Thalberg, who launched countless successful movie careers and helped to shape the movie industry as we know it today, was born […]
![Phantom of the Opera (Universal 1943)](https://www.classic-monsters.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Phantom-of-the-Opera_main-170x120.jpg)
Phantom of the Opera, Universal’s lavish 1943 Technicolor remake of the 1925 Chaney classic, was quite a departure from the studio’s usual classic monsters […]