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The most transgressive film produced by a major American studio in the 1930s, Tod Browning’s crowning achievement has haunted the margins of cinema for nearly one hundred years. An unforgettable cast of real-life sideshow performers portray the entertainers in a traveling circus who, shunned by mainstream society, live according to their own code—one of radical acceptance for the fellow ...
17 de oct. de 2023 · Tod Browning, who claimed he’d left his Kentucky home as a teen to join a traveling carnival, knew what “dropping out” really meant. But even before that watershed screening in Venice, there were those who felt a deep connection with Browning’s vision, who saw him as “a master of atmospheric chillers that aimed at far more than the superficial goose pimple,” as film historian Joe ...
Tod Browning. (Louisville, 1882 - Hollywood, 1962) Director cinematográfico estadounidense. Tras trabajar en el circo y como actor de vodeviles, inició su carrera cinematográfica como ayudante de D. W. Griffith. Su cine, casi siempre de terror, supo sacar el máximo provecho de la economía de medios. Su primer éxito en las salas fue El ...
Tod Browning. Director: Dracula. Belonging to a well-situated family, Charles Browning fell in love at the age of 16 with a dancer of a circus. Following her began his itinerary of being clown, jockey and director of a variety theater which ended when he met D.W. Griffith and became an actor. He made his debut in Intolerance (1916). Working later on as a director, he had his first success with...
Biography. A pioneering director who helped create the horror film genre, Tod Browning made his mark on cinema via his 10-film collaboration with actor Lon Chaney, the first sound version of "Dracula" (1931), starring Bela Lugosi, and most particularly his master work, "Freaks" (1932). So grotesque and frightful was "Freaks," that some 20 ...
Tod Browning (1921) Charles Albert „Tod“ Browning (* 12. Juli 1880 [1] oder 1882 [2] in Louisville, Kentucky; † 6. Oktober 1962 in Santa Monica, Kalifornien) war ein US-amerikanischer Filmregisseur und Schauspieler. Obwohl er in vielen Filmgenres drehte, ist er vor allem durch einige Beiträge zum Horrorfilm der 1920er und 1930er Jahre in ...
17 de mar. de 2023 · Tod Browning (1880–1962) ranks among the most original and enigmatic filmmakers of his time. Born Charles Albert Browning, Jr., son of a middle-class family, he ran away from his Kentucky home at age 16 to join the circus, where he took jobs as a barker, a contortionist, a clown, and a somnambulist buried alive in a box with its own ventilation system.
