Thanks, Gary, for helping prove that silent film and the amazingly talented people who created it are still relevant to us all today. Lon Chaney, who pioneered and mastered the art of makeup so well that he was and is known as “The Man of a Thousand Faces,” whose scary visage as film’s original Phantom of the Opera you use in your cartoon at the upper right, gave us a Phantom that was terrifying — yet far less scary and dangerous than the all-too-real Man of the Turtle Face, Mitch McConnell.
Thanks, Gary, for helping prove that silent film and the amazingly talented people who created it are still relevant to us all today. Lon Chaney, who pioneered and mastered the art of makeup so well that he was and is known as “The Man of a Thousand Faces,” whose scary visage as film’s original Phantom of the Opera you use in your cartoon at the upper right, gave us a Phantom that was terrifying — yet far less scary and dangerous than the all-too-real Man of the Turtle Face, Mitch McConnell.