This week, beware of masked men and falling chandeliers, as Svengoolie shows the 1943 version of Phantom of the Opera on the Dec ... comparisons to the 1925 Lon Chaney silent version of the ...

The iconic Broadway character Christine Daaé has been played by 40 women over 35 years. Sarah Brightman shaped the role when “The Phantom of the Opera” had its London premiere in 1986.

"The Phantom of the Opera" is not ... around the terrifying of all inmates of the Grand Opera House in Paris by a criminally insane mind (Lon Chaney) behind a hideous face, the combination ...

But it’s just one of the many onscreen transformations undergone by Lon Chaney ... To portray the Phantom, Chaney pulled the flesh below his eyes and on his nose with string.