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in a skit titled
The Phantom of Carnegie Hall.
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An Argentine TV serial
of the early 1950s starred
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Narciso Ibáñez Menta as the phantom.
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Now here, Christine has just made her
debut as Marguerite in Gounod's Faust,
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an homage to the original Leroux story.
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We see her in her "heaven-ascent" dress,
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and as the camera pans over,
in red at the back of the shot,
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you see her Mephistopheles.
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Other television phantoms
have included Charles Dance
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as a phantom with a father fixation,
whose face we never see,
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and the fixated father
was played by Burt Lancaster.
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Maximilian Schell portrayed the phantom
in a Robert Halmi production for TV,
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and in 1974 a riff titled
The Phantom of Hollywood
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starred Jack Cassidy as an old-time actor
scarred in a studio fire,
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running amok in the genuine ruins
of the MGM lot.
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Other riffs on Phantom include Brian
De Palma's Phantom of the Paradise,
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Phantom of the Ritz,
in which a scarred 1950s drag racer
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haunts a Florida movie theatre.
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There have been no less than four
Chinese adaptations,
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beginning with Ye ban ge sheng
or Song at Midnight in 1937,
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the first time the phantom
is created by acid disfigurement.
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There was a sequel in 1941,
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and a remake titled
Mid-Nightmare in 1961.
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Mostly recently it was remade again
as The Phantom Lover in 1995.
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The following Phantom fans
have provided inestimable help:
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Richard Dayton, Mike Dobbs,
Michael Evans,
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Susanna Foster, Robert Gitt,
Alex and Francis Golitzen,
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Chris Horack, Carla Laemmle,
John Landis and John Morgan.
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Sadly gone ahead, my thanks
to Pete Comandini, John Foster,
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Arthur Lubin, Bill O'Connell,
Mary Philbin and George E Turner.
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This is Scott MacQueen.