tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3575280877085021446.post473037763536086895..comments2024-01-22T17:42:46.416+01:00Comments on Lolita's Classics: The Many Faces of Lon ChaneyLolita of the Classicshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03596876234508882958noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3575280877085021446.post-26386178739566169952011-05-17T09:41:51.439+02:002011-05-17T09:41:51.439+02:00Thank you Lolita! Excellent pieces about Lon Chane...Thank you Lolita! Excellent pieces about Lon Chaney, who is one of my favourite actors. I have the films of his that are availbale on DVD and reading your articles about them was fantastic! He Who Gets Slapped is my favourite Chaney film but I like them all!<br />Best regards, Markmarkrussell1982https://www.blogger.com/profile/11211742905293952445noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3575280877085021446.post-58415821286835162932009-04-23T15:41:00.000+02:002009-04-23T15:41:00.000+02:00Such an incredibly amazing man. Whenever I think ...Such an incredibly amazing man. Whenever I think of someone who can change his appearance and personality so much for a role, Lon Chaney is the man I think of. He's such an icon and legend.Keithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14832710800680256206noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3575280877085021446.post-19161373641572550302009-04-22T22:07:00.000+02:002009-04-22T22:07:00.000+02:00Elizabeth:
No, actors were definitively more hardc...Elizabeth:<br />No, actors were definitively more hardcore in the olden days!<br />Haha, well, the Keystone Cops maybe realized that there was something funny and challenging about doing their own stunts!<br /><br />Christopher:<br />Yeah, he certainly did his own thing that appealed to the audience. It's like he chose roles that were more or less taboo for their unglamour. And what can people identify more with than loneliness and ugliness?Lolita of the Classicshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03596876234508882958noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3575280877085021446.post-29637062994281286792009-04-22T20:27:00.000+02:002009-04-22T20:27:00.000+02:00Chaney was best known for his horror make-ups..but...Chaney was best known for his horror make-ups..but I think the biggest horror that he displayed was a theme that ran thru-out a good many of his films whether he wore heavy make-up or not and that was the horror of "rejection"He was always the outsider,the lonely one..The one who loves from afar..<br />I'd be willing to bet that alot of people back in the day,went to Chaney's films to watch him suffer the rejection from sorry love affairs that they have/had experianced..Christopherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01165402182512034384noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3575280877085021446.post-5214486475101893532009-04-22T20:10:00.000+02:002009-04-22T20:10:00.000+02:00He was such an incredible actor. It makes you wond...He was such an incredible actor. It makes you wonder why actors nowadays don't go through half as much as they did back then!<br /><br />In an interview with Minta Durfee (Roscoe Arbuckle's wife) she said that modern actors were so spoiled as they demanded thousands of dollars and stunt doubles, and those stunt doubles demand mattresses and harnesses for their stunts. Ms. Durfee said that at Keystone the Cops gladly accepted their $20 dollars a week and did whatever awful stunts without doubles or any sort of security!Elizabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11592715432020988588noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3575280877085021446.post-11750650008830681732009-04-22T19:49:00.000+02:002009-04-22T19:49:00.000+02:00Nicole:
Thank you! I had a real time digging up in...Nicole:<br />Thank you! I had a real time digging up info on his transforming techniques!Lolita of the Classicshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03596876234508882958noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3575280877085021446.post-3392167991743098932009-04-22T19:47:00.000+02:002009-04-22T19:47:00.000+02:00He was pure genius when it came to changing into d...He was pure genius when it came to changing into different characters. Wonderful Post!Nicole Newcombhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07858454185709468641noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3575280877085021446.post-24314081576802546132009-04-22T19:39:00.000+02:002009-04-22T19:39:00.000+02:00Samuel Wilson:
I don't think there ever will be an...Samuel Wilson:<br />I don't think there ever will be an actor like Lon Chaney Sr. And thank you!Lolita of the Classicshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03596876234508882958noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3575280877085021446.post-2649561089056760962009-04-22T19:29:00.000+02:002009-04-22T19:29:00.000+02:00I don't know if any other actor ever had as much a...I don't know if any other actor ever had as much autonomy in doing his or her own makeup. I know that by the time Creighton was bidding for stardom, his suggestions for his own makeup for <I>One Million Years B.C.</I> were turned down by the studio. Then again, most actors wouldn't have been as skillfully creative as Chaney Sr. Those are lovely images you've posted.Samuel Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00934870299522899944noreply@blogger.com