Remembering Lon Chaney on His 135th Birthday

Lon Chaney, the Man of a Thousand Faces, was born 135 years ago today.

Here are 10 things you should know about Lon Chaney…

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01 Apr 18 | Tags: Bela Lugosi, Cleva Creighton, Colorado, Creighton Tull Chaney, Dracula, Encyclopedia Brittanica, in Colorado Springs, Leonidas Frank Chaney, Lon Chaney, Lon Chaney Jr., lung cancer, Man of a Thousand faces, pantomime, stage makeup, the Colorado School for the Deaf and Blind, The Unholy Three, Tod Browning, vaudeville
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You think that money is everything
And yet it's anybody's spring.
Go make a fortune, become a king
And still it's anybody's spring.

And if you flash a bank roll
Do you suppose the brook would care?
Or that a rose would say
'There goes a millionaire!'?
It's more than diamonds around a ring
Because it's anybody's spring.

You may be born with the silver spoon
And yet it's anybody's moon.
You couldn't buy a ticket
To hear the first robin sing.
It's free because
It's anybody's spring.

—It's Anybody's Spring; music by James Van Heusen; words by Johnny Burke 1945


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