Word: lon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Independent theatre owners, voting on box-office appeal of cinema people, ranked Clara Bow best of women, Colleen Moore second, Billie Dove third, Mary Pickford sixth, Greta Garbo twelfth. Of men, Lon Chancy was first, Tom Mix second, John Gilbert third...
...Bailey Court, London, last fortnight, one Robert Williams, carpenter, said he had killed an Irish housemaid in Hyde Park because he had been seized with an epileptic fit during which he saw the face of Lon Chaney, famed U. S. cinemactor. On the day before the killing, Carpenter Williams said he had viewed the film, London After Midnight, featuring Mr. Chaney...
...money-hungry cinemactors have ways of making money besides acting. Critic Regina Cannon (New York American) listed the extra-studio businesses of various stars: John Gilbert, Antonio Moreno, Thomas Meighan-financing real estate developments; Mary Pickford- banking; Karl Dane-raising chickens; Chester Conklin-raising turkeys; Bessie Love-dairy farming; Lon Chaney-part-ownership in a plumbing company; Constance Talmadge-manufacturing cold cream; Lew Cody-automobile agency and part-ownership in a barber shop; Conrad Nagel and Jack Holt-stockyards at Fresno, Calif.; Renee Adorée-French restaurant...
West of Zanzibar. Lon Chancy, as a masked voodoo witch man impressing an African tribe with small-time vaudeville tricks, is no handsomer than usual. Chancy, with paralyzed legs, crawls on his hands or pushes himself in a wheelchair. Never believable, the plot involves a number of scenes in which Chancy, Mary Nolan and Lionel Barrymore act with the naivete, but without the conviction, of a high-school class in the Commencement play...
...Wind: Lillian Gish on the prairies. Shadows of Fear: Crime and decay of a Zola heroine. Show People: Marion Davies making comedy-making comedy. While the City Sleeps: Lon Chancy is the man with the nickel badge. White Shadows in the South Seas: Still Hawaii. The Singing Fool: For people who have no radio...