Movies: Lon Chaney

Lon and Hazel Chaney with Mabel and Bill Dunphy play with a dog [perhaps Sandy] and perform some vaudeville routines. Later men and women, including Lon and Hazel and Lon's son, Creighton and his friends, and perhaps Eddie Parker, sit inside smoking,...

After divorcing his first wife and marrying a more gentle natured woman, Ralph Hadley finds himself again attracted to his ex-wife, a shrewd business woman. Trouble begins when he foolishly invites her to lunch, setting gossipy tongues-wagging. The n...

The Dreamer is unhappy with his marriage and runs away. He collapses and is found by The Desert Flower, who convince him to return to his family. In various illusions he sees himself in three stories. In first is Napoleon. In the second he is a Knigh...

A spirited young college graduate is sent away to the Kentucky mountains to live with her uncle after returning home and scorning the effete minister her parents had chosen for her husband. One day, finding herself lost in the wilderness, she is resc...

Thanks to his myriad film roles, Lon Chaney is known as “the man of a thousand faces,” and you could say that the early horror era never beheld a figure more intriguing. Yet because of his numerous transformations, his face never became as iconic as ...

The heraldic image of the fleur-de-lis weaves through the story of an orphaned girl, born with a birthmark in the shape of the insignia her mother had become obsessed with before her death, as her own fascination with the symbol leads her to a series...

A humble, conscientious factory worker decides to take matters into her own hands when her guileless younger sister catches the eye of a disreputable department manager. Mostly lost: a small fragment exists....