Both Browning and Chaney have credits as Writers, Actors and Directors. You became a "Jack of All Trades" as the saying goes. When a person arrived in the early Hollywood Silent Film Industry. In 1927 Bela Lugosi appeared on the Broadway stage in a production of Bram Stoker's "Dracula". Lugosi's first American motion picture was the 1923 spy film "The Silent Command". Lugosi left his native country after the failed "Hungarian Communist Revolution of 1919" and went to Germany, He would act in several "Weimar Republic" German motion pictures, but in 1920 he left for the United States. His first motion picture was the Hungarian film from 1917 "Az Ezredes (The Colonel)". The future Bela Lugosi based his acting last name, in 1903, on the town he was born in Lugos, Hungry. Lon became a contract player for Universal Pictures in 1912, while Browning was still in New York, doing bit parts in Silent Films. The one thing Universal Studios got right in their "Hollywood Biography" of Chaney, 1957's "The Man of a Thousand Faces" starring James Cagney, was the fact that the young man learned pantomime from communicating with his parents and others. Lon Chaney's parents were both deaf and his maternal grandfather founded the "Colorado School for the Education of Mutes" now the "Colorado School for the Deaf and Blind" in 1874. My article on the creation of "Hollywood Myth" entitled: " Hollywood: Segregated Housing, Motion Picture Studios and Movie Palaces" can be read at: Griffith while in New York City Which was the center of the Silent Film Industry, at the time, and in 1913 moved with Griffith from the East to the budding movie colony of "Hollywood", California. He learned the motion picture trade from another Louisville, Kentucky native D.W. The circus and side shows would become a regular staple in many of Browning's motion pictures. At the age of 16 Charles Albert Browning, Jr. His Uncle was a famous baseball player for the "Louisville Eclipse/Colonels" during the 1880's. Tod Browning came from a very wealthy family living in Louisville, Kentucky. Although Hollywood is full of VAMPIRES!Ĭharles Albert Browning, Jr. One a silent version and the other a sound remake, but then again maybe not. Both had one name in common Director Tod Browning and "Possibly" the same motion picture. Although Lon Chaney, to the best of anyone's knowledge, never really met Bela Lugosi.
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