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Mary Philbin

Mary Philbin

Highest Rated: 100% The Man Who Laughs (1928)

Lowest Rated: 90% The Phantom of the Opera (1925)

Birthday: Jul 16, 1902

Birthplace: Chicago, Illinois, USA

Silent film star, almost exclusively with Universal, a beauty contest runner-up invited to Hollywood by studio boss Carl Laemmle (the winner, Gertrude Olmstead, also enjoyed success in film). After two years in Hollywood Philbin played in her first important film, Erich von Stroheim's lavish "Merry-Go-Round" (1923), opposite Norman Kerry, with whom she would act in five films. Philbin's best-known role remains that of aspiring opera singer Christine Daae, tutored and beloved by the frightful "Phantom of the Opera" (1925), with Lon Chaney in the title role. She later gave a touching performance as the blind heroine who becomes enamored of another disfigured protagonist (Conrad Veidt) in Paul Leni's stunning adaptation of Victor Hugo's "The Man Who Laughs" (1928).

Highest rated movies

100% 87% The Man Who Laughs
90% 84% The Phantom of the Opera

Filmography

Movies

Credit
No Score Yet 50% The Last Performance Unknown (Character) - 1929
100% 87% The Man Who Laughs Dea (Character) - 1928
No Score Yet No Score Yet Magician Unknown (Character) - 1927
No Score Yet No Score Yet Surrender Lea Lyon (Character) - 1927
90% 84% The Phantom of the Opera Christine Daae (Character) - 1925
No Score Yet No Score Yet Stella Maris Stella Maris/Unity Blake (Character) - 1925
No Score Yet No Score Yet Merry-Go-Round Agnes Urban (Character) - 1923