{"id":319,"date":"2007-07-02T21:59:34","date_gmt":"2007-07-03T01:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/319"},"modified":"2011-09-24T17:42:16","modified_gmt":"2011-09-24T21:42:16","slug":"freaks-1932-tod-browning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/319","title":{"rendered":"Freaks (1932, Tod Browning)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was gonna go on about similarities between Gordon\/Mamet’s Edmond<\/a><\/em> and Freaks<\/em>, but I guess that doesn’t make much sense.<\/p>\n

Katy is hung up on how the freaks turned the wicked trapeze artist into a chicken lady, but it is a “horror” movie, so we’ll just say the Human Torso has transformative magical powers.<\/p>\n

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Wallace Ford (Phroso the clown) was in tons more movies, incl. Anthony Mann’s Man From Laramie<\/em> and Hitchcock’s Spellbound<\/em>.
\nGood-girl beauty Leila Hyams was in Buster Keaton’s Spite Marriage<\/em>, Browning’s 13th Chair<\/em>, Leo McCarey’s Ruggles of Red Gap<\/a><\/em>, then she never acted after 1936.<\/p>\n

Evil trapeze girl Olga Baclanova was in The Docks of New York<\/a><\/em> and not many sound films because she moved to Broadway for a decade before retiring.
\nHercules Henry Victor got huge in the 40’s playing evil nazis in every Hollywood movie that would take him before dying of a brain tumor in ’45.<\/p>\n

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Short couple Hans and Frieda were actually siblings. He was in Browning’s Unholy Three<\/a><\/em> and both of them were munchkins in The Wizard of Oz.<\/p>\n

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Those twins actually were conjoined.
\nThe human torso was sixty-one when the film was made!<\/p>\n

One of the greatest weird movies everywhere. Rob Zombie loves it.<\/p>\n

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I was gonna go on about similarities between Gordon\/Mamet’s Edmond and Freaks, but I guess that doesn’t make much sense. Katy is hung up on how the freaks turned the wicked trapeze artist into a chicken lady, but it is a “horror” movie, so we’ll just say the Human Torso has transformative magical powers. Wallace […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[343,218,54,446],"class_list":["post-319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1930s","tag-circus","tag-horror","tag-tod-browning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6656,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions\/6656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}