Lon Chaney: The Man Behind the Thousand Faces
by Michael F. Blake
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If you care at all about silent pictures, about Chaney, about bravura acting and about film makeup, the book is invaluable and perhaps definitive. --San Diego Union TribuneTags
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Splendidly researched, this biography of the masterful star of silent films and genius at makeup is an incredibly valuable asset in the library of film history. With special insights drawn from his own years as an actor and makeup artist, Michael F. Blake provides much more than most biographers can to a subject in this field. Marred only by too many misspellings of names and the unfortunate small size of many of the photographs, Blake's first of three books on Chaney is nevertheless THE great source of information on this great figure in movie history.
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Michael F. Blake is the author of The Films of Lon Chaney, A Thousand Faces, and Lan Chaney: Man behind the Thousand Faces (all available from National Book Network), the latter of which served as the basis for the Lon Chaney documentary that aired as part of PBS's American Masters series. Residing in Los Angeles, he is also an Emmy-winning makeup show more artist who has worked in the him industry for over forty years show less
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