French author Gaston Leroux's novel The Phantom of the Opera was released in 1910, based on rumors he'd heard about the Palais Garnier, the Paris opera house, one about a fire in the roof of the opera ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When "The Phantom of the Opera" premiered, 100 years ago, the term "horror film" didn't exist. "Spook melodrama," it was called. A ...

Known as “The Man of a Thousand Faces,” Chaney was in high demand as one of the biggest stars in Hollywood—renowned for his incredible physical transformations and unique ability to captivate ...

From the silent 1925 Lon Chaney classic to Broadway’s record-breaking runs and the 2004 Hollywood spectacle, The Phantom of the Opera continues to evolve while keeping its Gothic heart. Now, a new ...

To many audience members, I was a spine-tingling way to start Halloween week. The eerie flicker of the 1925 silent film classic “Phantom of the Opera,” starring Lon Chaney, was projected onto a screen ...

Phantom: That is where I sleep. It keeps me reminded of that other dreamless sleep that cures all ills — forever! Christine: You — You are the Phantom! Phantom: If I am the Phantom, it is because ...

FARGO — One hundred years ago, film producer Carl Laemmle and director Rupert Julian released “The Phantom of the Opera” and introduced horror to the silver screen like it had never been seen before.

OGUNQUIT, Maine — It was a film considered so frightening when first released that theaters were advised to have doctors standing by in case moviegoers fainted. It was the original big screen ...

Fans of the movie gathered to see the 100th anniversary screening of “The Phantom of the Opera” and listen to a live performance of the soundtrack in addition to a panel featuring several people ...

Brett Miller was 11 when he performed his first live organ accompaniment to a silent movie. The venue was the County Theater, in his native Doylestown, Penn. The film was the 1920 Buster Keaton short ...