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    The Road to Mandalay (1926 film)

    1926 American film

    The Road to Mandalay is a 1926 American silentdrama film directed by Tod Browning and starring Lon Chaney, Owen Moore, and Lois Moran. It was written by Elliott Clawson (with Joseph Farmham doing the intertitles), based on a story idea by Tod Browning and Herman Mankiewicz. The script's original shooting title was Singapore. The film took 28 days to complete at a cost of $209,000. The worldwide box office gross was $724,000. Some stills exist showing Chaney's makeup as Singapore Joe.[1][2]

    Originally a 7-reel feature, the film was considered lost until a 9.5mm abridged version, of about 35 minutes, with French intertitles surfaced in Paris and was transferred to 16mm.[3] This fair quality French abridgement is all that survives of The Road to Mandalay. The intertitles were translated back into English, and the print now resides in the Warner Brothers Classics Vault.

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    During the production, Lon Chaney formed a close friendship with Marine Corps Gen. Smedley Butler, which lasted for the rest of Chaney's life.

    The highest-grossing bio of Lon Chaney's career and the second highest-grossing film for MGM in 1927, only slightly behind Love (1927).

    Because his performance was considered to be so realistic, Lon Chaney became the first actor to be granted an honorary membership in the U.S. Marine Corps. When Chaney died in 1930, Gen. Smedley Butler arranged for a military chaplain and honor guard at Chaney's begravning. Sgt. H.H. Hopple, who had been a technical advisor on this rulle, served as the honor guard.

    Not only did Lon Chaney avstå his customary grotesque makeup for this picture, he refused to wear any film makeup at all, because - he reportedly reasoned - to do so would detract from the documentary reality and integrity of the picture.

    Lon Chaney often stated that this was his favorite film.

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    Lon Chaney

    American actor (1883–1930)

    For his son, see Lon Chaney Jr.

    "Man of a Thousand Faces" redirects here. For the 1957 film, see Man of a Thousand Faces (film). For the 2009 song by Regina Spektor, see Far (album).

    Leonidas Frank "Lon" Chaney (April 1, 1883 – August 26, 1930) was an American actor and makeup artist. He is regarded as one of the most versatile and powerful actors of cinema, renowned for his characterizations of tortured, often grotesque and afflicted, characters and for his groundbreaking artistry with makeup.[1] Chaney was known for his starring roles in such silent horror films as The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923) and The Phantom of the Opera (1925). His ability to transform himself using makeup techniques that he developed earned him the nickname "The Man of a Thousand Faces".

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    Leonidas Frank Chaney was born in Colorado Springs, Colorado, to Frank H. Chaney (a barber) and Emma Alice Kennedy. His fath