![]() Jack Pierce created Gwynplaine’s horrific smile he would also devise the iconic makeup for Frankenstein, 1932’s The Mummy and 1941’s The Wolf Man. Hall, who’d designed the sets for Phantom, oversaw production design (and went on to art direct Dracula and Frankenstein in 1931). The budget for Laughs was $1 million ($17 million today), making it one of the most expensive films of its time.Ĭharles D. (That film established the tone for much of the classic Universal horror to come.) To play Gwynplaine, Leni cast fellow German Conrad Veidt, best known to American audiences as Cesare, the sleepwalker roped into committing murders in 1920’s The Cabinet of Dr. To direct, he chose Paul Leni, a German Expressionist who’d impressed with the 1927 silent horror film The Cat and the Canary, about an escaped lunatic who stalks an heiress in her late uncle’s mansion. Hollywood Flashback: 'White Men Can't Jump' First Scored 31 Years Ago ![]()
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