Arts > Movies > Directors > List > Tod Browning   1880-1962

Tod Browning, the director of “Freaks,”

center,

getting a hug from the actor Schlitzie

while surrounded by other cast members.

Credit: Bettmann, via Getty Images

Why the 1932 Movie ‘Freaks’

Is a Touchstone for Disability Representation

Though it has detractors,

scholars and advocates have largely embraced this film

for the way it shows people just living their lives

while disabled.

NYT

June 26, 2023    5:01 a.m. ET

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/26/
movies/freaks-disability-representation.html

Harry and Daisy Earles in “Freaks.”

The film’s characters have an agency

not often seen in Hollywood.

Credit: MGM

Why the 1932 Movie ‘Freaks’

Is a Touchstone for Disability Representation

Though it has detractors,

scholars and advocates have largely embraced this film

for the way it shows people just living their lives while disabled.

NYT

June 26, 2023    5:01 a.m. ET

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/26/
movies/freaks-disability-representation.html

Charles Albert Browning, Jr.    USA    1880-1962

aka Tod Browning

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Tod_Browning

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/26/
movies/freaks-disability-representation.html

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/mar/17/
tod-browning-the-film-maker-who-brought-the-carnival-to-hollywood

http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/jun/09/
tod-browning-freaks-banned

https://www.npr.org/2008/10/30/
96282132/defining-dracula-a-century-of-vampire-evolution

http://www.theguardian.com/film/1999/apr/15/
derekmalcolmscenturyoffilm.derekmalcolm

https://www.nytimes.com/1962/10/10/
archives/tod-browning-80-
exfilm-director-maker-of-chaney-and-lugosi-films.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1932/07/09/
archives/the-circus-side-show.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Freaks_(1932_film)

https://www.nytimes.com/1931/02/13/
archives/the-screen-bram-stokers-human-vampire.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
The_Mystic - 1925

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Outside_the_Law_(1920_film)

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