The Phantom of the Opera Articles
Claire Bloom, Julie Harris, Mary Philbin, Jane Wyman: Top Ten Scream Queens
Claire Bloom, Julie Harris, The Haunting The Movies’ Top Ten Scream Queens 10 – Mary Philbin, The Phantom of the Opera (1925). Okay, so this is a silent film; in other words, Universal star Mary Philbin's screaming was all in my head. But it worked. Lon Chaney at his most grotesque had the title role; Norman Kerry was Philbin's dashing leading man. Rupert Julian directed. [...]
Lon Chaney Movie Schedule: THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, TELL IT TO THE MARINES, MR. WU
Lon Chaney on TCM: HE WHO GETS SLAPPED, THE UNKNOWN, MR. WU Get ready for more extreme perversity in West of Zanzibar (1928), as Chaney abuses both Warner Baxter and Mary Nolan, while the great-looking Mr. Wu (1927) offers Chaney as a Chinese creep about to destroy the life of lovely Renée Adorée — one of the best and prettiest actresses of the 1920s. Adorée [...]
Lon Chaney's THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA Halloween Screening
The 1925 silent classic The Phantom of the Opera, starring Lon Chaney (above) in the title role, will be screened on Sunday, Oct. 25, at 2:30 pm at the San Gabriel Mission Playhouse. This Halloween Special presentation by the Los Angeles Theatre Organ Society will feature live musical accompaniment on a Wurlitzer theatre organ restored with the support of the Peter Lloyd Crotty Charitable Fund. [...]
Susanna Foster
Turhan Bey, Susanna Foster, Boris Karloff in The Climax Actress-singer Susanna Foster, who was featured in The Phantom of the Opera and several other 1940s Universal productions and whose adult life was plagued by alcoholism and mental illness, died of heart failure at the Lillian Booth Actors Home in Englewood, N.J., on Jan. 17. She was 84. Born in Chicago (on Dec. 6, 1924), Foster [...]