He Who Gets Slapped Articles

Lon Chaney, He Who Gets Slapped Lon Chaney is one of the most fascinating movie stars in film history. Throughout the 1920s, Chaney was one the biggest box-office draws the world over despite what could kindly be described as an unhandsome face — one that was often disguised by heavy layers of makeup to make him look ancient, deformed, Chinese, female, etc. His roles usually [...]

Marlene Dietrich in Kurt Bernhardt's The Woman Men Yearn For Among the silent-film classics to be featured at this year's San Francisco Silent Film Festival are Victor Sjöström's He Who Gets Slapped (1924), starring Lon Chaney, Norma Shearer, and John Gilbert in the newly founded MGM studios' first production; five-time Oscar nominee Clarence Brown's The Goose Woman (1925), starring Louise Dresser and Constance Bennett, and [...]

Renée Adorée, John Gilbert in King Vidor's The Big Parade (top); John Gilbert, Greta Garbo in Clarence Brown's Flesh and the Devil (bottom) John Gilbert on TCM: QUEEN CHRISTINA, DOWNSTAIRS Here are my top recommendations for John Gilbert Day (in addition to Queen Christina, mentioned in the previous post): Victor Sjöström's touching, poetic He Who Gets Slapped (1924), which features my favorite Lon Chaney performance [...]

ZaSu Pitts, Gibson Gowland (center) in Erich von Stroheim's Greed BEST FILM The Enchanted Cottage d: John S. Robertson; scr: Josephine Lovett; titles: Gertrude Chase Greed d, scr: Erich von Stroheim; titles: June Mathis He Who Gets Slapped d: Victor Sjöström (aka Victor Seastrom); scr: Victor Sjöström, Carey Wilson The Thief of Bagdad d: Raoul Walsh, Douglas Fairbanks; scr: Douglas Fairbanks, Lotta Woods   CHECK [...]