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Laugh, Clown, Laugh is a american film of genre Drama directed by Herbert Brenon released in USA on 14 april 1928 with Lon Chaney

Laugh, Clown, Laugh (1928)

Laugh, Clown, Laugh
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Released in USA 14 april 1928
Length 1h13
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama
Rating74% 3.742833.742833.742833.742833.74283

Laugh, Clown, Laugh is a 1928 silent film starring Lon Chaney and Loretta Young. The movie was directed by Herbert Brenon and produced and released through MGM Studios.

The film is based on the 1923 Broadway stage production Laugh, Clown, Laugh, by David Belasco and Tom Cushing, based on a 1919 story Ridi, Pagliaccio by Fausto Martini.

Synopsis

Tito (Lon Chaney), a traveling circus clown, finds an abandoned child. Tito adopts her and raises her as his daughter, naming her Simonetta after his brother Simon (Bernard Siegel). One day the now teen-aged Simonetta (Loretta Young) encounters Luigi (Nils Asther), a wealthy man who falls madly in love with her, but upon seeing that he already has a girlfriend, she rejects him. She returns home to the circus and Tito suddenly realizes she is no longer a child. Tito further realizes he has feelings for Simonetta, but also knows his feelings are improper because he raised her as his daughter.

Actors

Lon Chaney

(Tito Beppi)Bernard Siegel

(Simon)Loretta Young

(Simonetta)Nils Asther

(Count Luigi Ravelli)Cissy Fitzgerald

(Giancinta)
And :
Gwen Lee
Robert Brower
Mickey McBan
Emmett King
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