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- Werewolf of London (Universal 1935)
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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 […]
Born Leonidas Frank Chaney on the 1st of April 1883, Lon Chaney is widely regarded as one of the greatest actors of the silent […]
Author of The Phantom of the Opera, Gaston Louis Alfred Leroux, was born on the 6th of May, 1868, in Paris. After a career […]
Mary Philbin, the classic silent actress who starred opposite Lon Chaney in The Phantom of the Opera (1925) and Conrad Veidt in The Man […]
Thorley Walters, the English character actor and famous Hammer stalwart, was born on 12th May, 1913, in Teigngrace, Devon, the son of Prebendary T […]
English stage and screen actor William Claude Rains was born on the 10th of November, 1889 in Camberwell, London. Rains grew up with what […]
Carla Laemmle was born Rebekah Isabelle Laemmle on 20th October, 1909 in Chicago, Illinois. Of German Jewish descent, she took the adjunctive format of […]
