MAN OF 1000 FACES, 500 BODIES, AND 348 VOICES GROWLS AND SHRIEKS

MAN OF A THOUSAND FACES (1957)
dir: Joseph Pevney

MAN OF 1000 FACES, 500 BODIES, AND 348 VOICES GROWLS AND SHRIEKS
Humbug #6, January 1958
w: Harvey Kurtzman
a: Jack Davis

Bio-pic about the life of actor Lon Chaney (James Cagney), best known for Phantom of the Opera, and father of The Wolf Man. He is initially a stage actor advised to go into movies by press agent Clarence Locan (Jim Backus).

He and his wife Cleva split up, and he leaves her for Gert.