--- title: 'Laugh, Clown, Laugh (1928)' type: 'film' director: 'Herbert Brenon' released: '1928-04-14' runtime_minutes: 73 genres: - 'Drama' - 'Romance' countries: - 'United States' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/laugh-clown-laugh-1928' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0019074/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Laugh, Clown, Laugh (1928) 1928 · 73 min · Drama, Romance · United States ## Synopsis Laugh, Clown, Laugh is a 1928 American silent drama film starring Lon Chaney and Loretta Young. The film was directed by Herbert Brenon and produced by Irving G. Thalberg for MGM Pictures. A sound version of this film was released in the second half of 1928 and featured a synchronized musical score with sound effects. The film was written by Elizabeth Meehan, based on the 1923 Broadway stage production Laugh, Clown, Laugh by David Belasco and Tom Cushing, which in turn was based on the 1919 play Ridi, Pagliaccio by Fausto Maria Martini. ## Credits - **Director:** [Herbert Brenon](https://cinepixo.com/people/herbert-brenon) - **Producer:** [Herbert Brenon](https://cinepixo.com/people/herbert-brenon), [Irving Thalberg](https://cinepixo.com/people/irving-thalberg) - **Screenplay:** [Joseph Farnham](https://cinepixo.com/people/joseph-farnham) - **Original Music Composer:** [Ted Fio Rito](https://cinepixo.com/people/ted-fio-rito) - **Director of Photography:** [James Wong Howe](https://cinepixo.com/people/james-wong-howe) - **Editor:** [Marie Halvey](https://cinepixo.com/people/marie-halvey) ## Cast - [Gwen Lee](https://cinepixo.com/people/gwen-lee) - [Cissy Fitzgerald](https://cinepixo.com/people/cissy-fitzgerald) - [Loretta Young](https://cinepixo.com/people/loretta-young) - [Emmett King](https://cinepixo.com/people/emmett-king) - [Bernard Siegel](https://cinepixo.com/people/bernard-siegel) - [Lon Chaney](https://cinepixo.com/people/lon-chaney) - [Nils Asther](https://cinepixo.com/people/nils-asther) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/laugh-clown-laugh-1928 Film facts: Wikidata (Q1057743); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.