![Freaks (MGM 1932)](https://www.classic-monsters.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Freaks-12-main-170x120.jpg)
Made by MGM in the autumn of 1931 and released the following year, Freaks used real sideshow ‘freaks’ among its cast of performers and […]
![The Man Who Laughs (Universal 1928)](https://www.classic-monsters.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Man-Who-Laughs-The_01-170x120.jpg)
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](https://www.classic-monsters.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Johnny-Eck-MAIN-170x120.jpg)
John Eckhardt Jr, known simply as Johnny Eck, and his twin brother Robert were born on the 27th of August, 1911 in Baltimore, Maryland. […]
![The Devil Doll (MGM 1936)](https://www.classic-monsters.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Devil-Doll-The_main-170x120.jpg)
The Devil Doll, released on the 10th of July, 1936, was both MGM’s and Tod Browning’s last horror film and, as such, was a […]
![Lon Chaney](https://www.classic-monsters.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Lon-Chaney-170x120.jpg)
Born Leonidas Frank Chaney on the 1st of April 1883, Lon Chaney is widely regarded as one of the greatest actors of the silent […]
![Marceline Day](https://www.classic-monsters.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Marceline-Day_main-170x120.jpg)
Marceline Day was born Marceline Newline on the 24th of April, 1908 in Colorado Springs, Colorado. She made her movie debut alongside her older […]
![Wallace Ford](https://www.classic-monsters.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Wallace-Ford_main-170x120.jpg)
Wallace Ford was born Samuel Jones Grundy in Bolton, Lancashire, England on the 12th of February, 1898. At the age of seven, he was […]