Opera Films (Film Guide) - What's Opera, Doc?, Magical Maestro, a Night at the Opera, the Phantom of the Opera, Long-Haired Hare, Callas Forever, (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (films not included). Pages: 34. Chapters: What's Opera, Doc?, Magical Maestro, A Night at the Opera, The Phantom of the Opera, Long-Haired Hare, Callas Forever, Make Mine Music, Rabbit of Seville, Wife, Husband and Friend, Stingaree, Inside the Forbidden City, Diva, Eugene Onegin, The Great Caruso, Maytime, Lady General Hua Mulan, The Female Prince, Serenade, The Climax, Everybody Does It, The Toast of New Orleans, Metropolitan, That Midnight Kiss, Interrupted Melody, Charlie Chan at the Opera, For the First Time, The Queen of Spades, Thais. Excerpt: The Phantom of the Opera is a 1925 silent horror film adaptation of the Gaston Leroux novel of the same title directed by Rupert Julian. The film featured Lon Chaney in the title role as the masked and facially deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House, causing murder and mayhem in an attempt to force the management to make the woman he loves a star. It is most famous for Lon Chaney's intentionally horrific, self-applied make-up, which was kept a studio secret until the film's premiere. The film also features Mary Philbin, Norman Kerry, Arthur Edmund Carewe, Gibson Gowland, John St. Polis, and Snitz Edwards. The only surviving cast member is Carla Laemmle (born 1909), niece of producer Carl Laemmle, who played a small role as "prima ballerina" in the film when she was about 15. The film was adapted by Elliott J. Clawson, Frank M. McCormack (uncredited), Tom Reed (titles) and Raymond L. Schrock. It was directed by Rupert Julian, with supplemental direction by Lon Chaney, Edward Sedgwick and Ernst Laemmle (unconfirmed). The scenario presented is based on the general release version of 1925, which has additional scenes and sequences in different order than the existing reissue print (see below). The film opens with the debut of the new season at the Paris Opera House, ...