TCM's 'The Projected Image' puts spotlight on disabilities in film

The role of disabled actors, or lack thereof, in movies over the years is explored in the month-long festival 'The Projected Image' on TCM.

In the 1927 silent film "The Unknown," Lon Chaney plays Alonzo the Armless, a circus performer who hurls knives with his feet at his comely assistant, played by a young Joan Crawford. During the movie's quieter moments, Alonzo uses his toes to drink wine, smoke cigarettes and strum a guitar.

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