Man of a Thousand Faces

Man of a Thousand Faces is a 1957 film detailing the life of silent movie actor Lon Chaney, in which the title role is played by James Cagney.

In the early 1900s, actor Lon Chaney James Cagney is working in vaudeville with his wife Cleva Dorothy Malone. Chaney quits the show and Cleva announces that she is pregnant. Lon is happy and tells Cleva that he has been hired by the famous comedy team Kolb and Dill for an upcoming show.Cleva pressures Lon to visit his parents whom she has never met in his hometown of Colorado Springs. Lon is reluctant because his parents are both deaf mutes, a fact Lon has never shared. Cleva reacts with disgust and does not want to give birth, fearing that the child will also be a deaf mute and she doesnt want to be the mother of a dumb thing. ........

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