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Lon Guitry in Son of Dracula'' (1943)The monster won 7 dieH* 'III 11 \KI PITTS Bulletin Mall WriterIn the Capistrano Beach reton area near the southern California White Home af President Richard Nixon a monster dwell*The monster ha* many guises. He was the Wotfman, Dracula, the Mummy the Electro Man, Satan, a mar lock, the Frankenstein monster and a rombie.Today the monitor sail scares - but he doe* not work l«i Chaney mho joyfully frightened genera:.on* of youngsters for over S# ,ear*. I* too ».ck to parley the trade rhat made him famous. that of a movie mo filter • Nothing u more natural aome than hotror. ChaiH’y once sad and he had a good hack-ground for it being the son of Lon Chaney Sr the mention famous 'Wan of a Thousand Faces” and the *tar of Mich silent classics as Phantom of the Opera.” The Hunchback of Notre Dame. 1 The Penalty” and The Unknown” After making a solo talkie. The Unholy Three'' in 1930. Chaney Sr died of ihroa* cancer, the same disease that now plagues hi* sonLife has not ever been easy (or Lon Chaney, bom Creighton Chaney and later billed a* Ion Chaney Jr. a name he dislike* They had to atarve me to get me to use It, he once saidStillborn one frigid morningin February i»* the infant Chaney wa* shocked into life by hr* fathe- wt» dipped she infant into a frigid lake to make him breathe Chaney later recounted his father would massage his tiny body, making the tnult;cle* strong so that by-three months of age he could walk and by the time he was a year old he was working with his father in his circus acrobatic actChaney's mother. Ova Oe.ghton Chaney, who worked with her husband in the sleazy touring Mows of the 19IO’s. was plagued with mental trouble* and left her husband and son. By 1912 Chaney Sr. was in Hollywood and within a decade ho had become the top characteractor of the medium His son often spent time in boarding schools but with Chaney s second marriage to Harcl Hastings Bennett Creighton had the first real home he ever knewDuring the twenties the younger Chaney worked at odd job* including pciung fruit in Southern Californ.a. and after gradu ation from hip school he took up the p:umji.'g trade Hr marred in the late 20 s and soon h* two son*.During the depression Chaney was forced into the motion pic ture ndu*try where easy money could be made as an actor, extra. bit player and stunt man Chanrv now estimate* be maySee Page 2. Cehima 2
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Anderson Herald Bulletin
Anderson, Indiana, US
Tue, Oct 31, 1972
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