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Article: TCM plans a night of `Hunchback'
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- June 20, 1996
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Before you head out to see the Disney version of "The Hunchback of
Notre Dame," check out Turner Classic Movies' double feature Friday
night.
One of cable's classier networks available on some local systems
airs the two classic versions of the Victor Hugo story, starting at
8 p.m. with the 1923 silent version that offered Lon Chaney wearing a
72-pound rubber hump. Chaney's 73-year-old makeup job remains
amazing.
Following that, Charles Laughton stars in the 1939 "Hunchback" at
10 p.m., which features Maureen O'Hara's U.S. film debut as the saucy
Esmeralda.
Believe it or not, the silent Chaney version was not the first
filmed "Hunchback."
Turner tells us it was the third, after two ...