Man of a Thousand Faces
- Drama, Biography
- August 13, 1957
- Movies with No Deaf Actors | Supporting Roles
Synopsis
The life and career of vaudevillian and silent screen horror star , including his contentious relationship with his neurotic wife and his premature death.
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For its first half, the conflict in Man of a Thousand Faces revolves around Chaney’s first wife, Cleva. The two seem happy enough until Cleva announces that she is pregnant and wants to go home to meet Chaney’s family for Christmas.
While Chaney and his brothers and sister are all hearing, however, Chaney’s parents are deaf, a fact that he has kept from Cleva until the moment she meets them. She reacts in typical Hollywood melodrama fashion, rushing away from the dinner table and swooning in her bedroom, concerned that her child might be born deaf and crying, “I don’t want to be mother to a dumb thing!”
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