Laugh, Clown, Laugh (1928)
Release Date: Apr 14, 1928 Wide
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Fifteen-year-old Loretta Young is 45-year-old Lon Chaney's winsome leading lady in Laugh, Clown, Laugh. Based on the war-horse stage piece by David Belasco and Tom Cushing, the film casts Chaney as (what else?) an aging circus clown, who adopts an orphaned girl and falls in love with her when she grows up. Alas-and not surprisingly-the girl loves another, prompting Chaney to perform a suicidal circus stunt, freeing her to marry the man she truly cares about (Nils Asther). Chaney had been here
Apr 14, 1928 Wide
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Lon Chaney
Tito Beppi -
Bernard Siegel
Simon -
Loretta Young
Simonette -
Cissy Fitzgerald
Giancinta -
Nils Asther
Count Luigi Ravelli -
Gwen Lee
Lucretia -
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The fifteen-year-old Loretta Young (only 14 at the time of shooting) is 45-year-old Lon Chaney's leading lady.
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