Man of a Thousand Faces (film)
1957 film by Joseph Pevney / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Man of a Thousand Faces is a 1957 American dark dramatic film detailing the life of silent film actor Lon Chaney, played by James Cagney.
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Man of a Thousand Faces | |
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Directed by | Joseph Pevney |
Written by | R. Wright Campbell Ivan Goff Ben Roberts Ralph Wheelwright |
Produced by | Robert Arthur |
Starring | James Cagney Dorothy Malone Jane Greer Jim Backus |
Cinematography | Russell Metty |
Edited by | Ted Kent |
Music by | Frank Skinner |
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Distributed by | Universal-International |
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Running time | 122 min. |
Country | United States |
Languages | English American Sign Language |
Box office | $2.4 million (US)[1] |
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Directed by Joseph Pevney, the film's cast includes Cagney, Dorothy Malone, Jane Greer and Jim Backus. Chaney's son is played by Roger Smith, later the star of the television series 77 Sunset Strip, and Irving Thalberg is portrayed by Robert Evans, who soon left acting and eventually became the head of Paramount Pictures. The film's four writers were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay at the 30th Academy Awards.[2]