Product Description
"The Mocking Bird"-1925-Jacobsen Hodgkinson Corp-5" X 8"-138 pages-Softcover Book-With Photos-Signed By Lon Chaney Sr. and Tod Browning. This vintage book features the 1926 Silent Movie-"The Mocking Bird" starring Lon Chaney Sr and directed by Tod Browning. Please note-the title of the movie was changed to "The Blackbird"..................Leonidas Frank "Lon" Chaney (April 1, 1883 – August 26, 1930) was an American stage and film actor, make-up artist, director and screenwriter. 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 his groundbreaking artistry with makeup. 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 he developed earned him the nickname "The Man of a Thousand Faces"....................Tod Browning (born Charles Albert Browning Jr.; July 12, 1880 – October 6, 1962) was an American film director, film actor, screenwriter and vaudeville performer. Browning's career spanned the silent film and sound film eras. Best known as the director of Dracula (1931), Freaks (1932), and silent film collaborations with Lon Chaney and Priscilla Dean, Browning directed many movies in a wide range of genres, between 1915 and 1939. The book has been autographed on the title page by Lon Chaney and Tod Browning..................CONDITION OF BOOK AND AUTOGRAPHS IS VG PLUS.
