On this day in 1883, Lon Chaney Sr. and his many faces entered this existence….
In this photo he is holding the only F/X he ever needed.
Lon Chaney Sr.
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Anne McCaffrey & Samuel R. Delany are also April 1st kids.
A pity that much of Lon Chaney’s film work has vanished.
Around 1988, Neil Rest took inordinate pride in the many, many fonts he had collected for his Macintosh.
Neil: “I have over seven hundred fonts!”
Me: “I think you should collect at least three hundred more.”
Neil: (rising to the bait) “Why?”
Me: “Because then you’d be The Man Of A Thousand Faces!”
Chaney’s 1924 feature, “He Who Gets Slapped”, is scheduled for showing at this month’s Roger Ebert Film Festival in Champaign, Illinois. Link is below:
http://www.ebertfest.com/sixteen/he-who-gets-slapped.html