Olga Baclanova

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Actress Olga Baclanova stands in a doorway with a startled expression in a circus setting, while two men look up at her in a scene from the 1932 film Freaks.

Olga Baclanova

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Tod Browning
The MGM and Universal years
Olga Baclanova, as the trapeze artist who marries a midget circus owner (Earles) only to try killing him for his money, is the film’s nominal protagonist, but it is really the “freaks” themselves who make this film so haunting. Browning’s obvious affection for those performers—such…
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Olga Baclanova, as the trapeze artist who marries a midget circus owner (Earles) only to try killing him for his money, is the film’s nominal protagonist, but it is really the “freaks” themselves who make this film so haunting. Browning’s obvious affection for those performers—such…
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Freaks
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