Utterly bizarre, really. Looks more like a a film about a bloke with a foot fetish, or perhaps a shoesalesman... or both.
What the heck is a "homely man" by today's standards. Is it really the Man Who Laughs? Sent via oBtusePhone from Oz. ----- Original Message ----- From: Jeff Potokar To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, April 19, 2010 10:30 AM Subject: Re: [MOPO] FA: One of the oddest ad campaigns ever from a major studio! It would have been fascinating, too, to see what Lon Chaney would have done with this role, as well. Carl Laemmle wanted Chaney for the role but Chaney was under a long term contract with MGM at the time. Jeff On Apr 18, 2010, at 2:54 PM, Bruce Hershenson wrote: Carl Laemmle, the head of Universal saw the great German impressionist movies of the 1910s and 1920s and decided Universal needed to have one of its own, and he hired director Paul Leni to adapt Victor Hugo's The Man Who Laughs, starring the magnificent German actor, Conrad Veidt, who had of course starred in the first of these, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. Apparently Laemmle panicked when he saw the advances, because Universal devised one of the oddest ad campaigns from a major studio (maybe only equaled by MGM's Freaks campaign a few years later). The ad showed a sexy image of Olga Baclanova, with an unrecognizable back shot of a man crouching before her, and the immortal tagline, "Why do alluring women love homely men?"! Bruce Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___________________________________________________________________ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [email protected] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___________________________________________________________________ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [email protected] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___________________________________________________________________ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [email protected] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
