Word: hunchback
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...think that every sort of boy was entered. There were very delicate students in that crowd at Wakonda, medium, strong and very strong. There was a little hunchback who played well, and that fact brought out my contention that golf is for every sort of physique, and the college boy who would probably be cut off from every other outdoor game might become a good golfer--at least a fairly good one. Collegians must either play golf themselves or take long hikes to see the other fellow do it. There is no grand stand seat for the spectator...
Said solemn Actor Walter Hampden, aged 60, after seeing his cinema debut as the Archbishop of Paris in The Hunchback of Notre Dame: "I saw myself act and heard myself talk for the first time in my life. I looked a little different than I thought I would and my voice didn't sound the way I thought it always did. ... I was nothing to make myself say I was wonderful; but then, I don't think I was awful either...
...Hunchback of Notre Dame (RKO) is a more spectacular remake of an old horror film in which the late Lon (Man of a Thousand Faces) Chancy, with the help of an elaborately repulsive makeup, set a standard for cinema frightfulness hard to beat. So hard, that the more repulsive make-up (by Perc Westmore) with which British Cinemactor Charles Laughton proposed to beat it was a devoutly cherished secret of this production. Thirty-four pounds lighter than Lon Chaney's, Laughton's make-up consists of a sponge-rubber right cheek and false eye socket, which covers Laughton...
...Daily Worker would probably fire its movie reviewer if he panned this latest version of Victor Hugo's famous "Hunchback of Notre Dame," for it is more a tidy moral essay on the people versus the crooked nobles than it is a horror story. But the Daily Worker would then be as aesthetically wrong as it was in firing "the renegade Rushmore" for liking that "fascist-slanted, anti-negro" epic "Gone With The Wind," for "The Hunchback" is a dull film...