

Christine uses to let their relationship get in the way of her career.Īt the height of the most prosperous season in the Opera's history, the management suddenly resign. Raoul visits her in her dressing room during the performance, and makes his intentions known that he wishes for Christine to resign and marry him. Christine has made a sudden rise from the chorus to understudy of the prima donna. Raoul attends only in the hope of hearing his sweetheart Christine Daaé (Mary Philbin) sing.

Polis) and his brother, the Vicomte Raoul de Chagny (Norman Kerry) are in attendance. The film opens with the debut of the new season at the Paris Opera House, with a production of Gounod's Faust (opera). Plot summary The scenario presented is based on the general release version of 1925, which has additional scenes and sequences in different order than the existing reissue print (see below). Schrock and was directed by Rupert Julian and with supplemental direction by Lon Chaney and Edward Sedgwick. Clawson, Tom Reed (screenwriter) and Raymond L. The last surviving cast member was Carla Laemmle (1909–2014), niece of producer Carl Laemmle, who played a small role as "prima ballerina" in the film when she was about 15.

The picture also features Mary Philbin, Norman Kerry, Arthur Edmund Carewe, Gibson Gowland, John St. The movie remains most famous for Chaney's ghastly, self-devised make-up, which was kept a studio secret until the film's premiere. It was directed by Rupert Julian and starred Lon Chaney, Sr in the title role of the deformed Phantom who haunts the Palais Garnier, causing murder and mayhem in an attempt to make the woman he loves a star. File:The Phantom of the Opera (1925).webm The Phantom of the Opera is a 1925 American Silent film horror film adaptation of Gaston Leroux's The Phantom of the Opera.
