![]() ![]() ![]() No one will see him makeup - for Chaney applies his makeup at home, and comes to the studio wearing a mask a molded, flesh-colored affair that is within the law on the public streets, but still conceals his strange disguise from the onlooker. At no time will any screen actor other than one playing in the picture be allowed on the set to see his makeup - and the actors in the production are pledged to secrecy. ![]() In every scene photographed for publicity or lobby display in which Lon Chaney appears, the face will be 'blanked out' by a patch. When the sequence was finally filmed with Paul Newman, Julie Andrews, and 500 extras, the set looked just as it did in the Chaney film.Īccording to a 1924 magazine article: "At no time during the production is his picture, in the makeup of the weird creature he is playing, to be made public. The original seats were reupholstered and put back in the audience section. Production manager Hein Heckroth, art director Frank Arrigo and assistant art director Joe Alves had set designers create new blueprints based on the photos. Although the original blueprints could not be found, Musso had an 8x10 photo collection from the Chaney film that showed the set in great detail. Hitchcock had his crew-including Joseph Musso, then an illustrator and later an art director-restore the theater set to the way it was in the original "Phantom" film. By 1965 the interior had fallen into disrepair, but Universal let Hitchcock use it in the climax for the film. It was used in Alfred Hitchcock's Розірвана завіса (1966), among other films. The film's European three-tired box seat horseshoe theater and stage proscenium still exist at Universal Studios as a standing set. ![]()
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