(11-24-2012, 09:48 PM)LincolnMan Wrote: Was Lon Chaney Jr. the Phantom of the Opera? I remember reading that some theatergoers had heart attacks when he unmasked himself in the movie.
Ho, Bill--
It was his Chaney Junior's dad who was the Man of 1,000 Faces. Jimmy Cagney did a movie of the senior Chaney's life by that name.
Chaney Junior had a tragic life; the story of his rejection by his mother is enough to make you cry.