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Joseph Carey Merrick (5 August 1862 – 11 April 1890) was an English artist known for his severe physical deformities. He was first exhibited at a freak show under the stage name "The Elephant Man", and then went to live at the London Hospital, in Whitechapel, after meeting the surgeon Sir Frederick Treves.
It could be the shocking sight of Joseph Merrick’s gnarled and twisted black-and-white silhouette behind a translucent screen in 1980’s The Elephant Man—a sight that’s far more unsettling ...
Merrick begins to take guests in his room, including the actress Madge Kendal, who gives him a copy of Romeo and Juliet; they play some lines from it and Kendal kisses Merrick. Merrick quickly becomes an object of curiosity to high society, and Mrs. Mothershead expresses concerns that he is still being put on display as a freak for this audience.
The first major work about Merrick's life was The Elephant Man: A Study in Human Dignity by anthropologist Ashley Montagu, published in 1971. [1] Montagu drew heavily on Treves' memoirs, and the "autobiographical" pamphlet that had been written to sell to visitors to Merrick's exhibitions.
Lynch found his first taste of mainstream critical acceptance with his 1980 biographical account of the life of Joseph Merrick, The Elephant Man. The film, which starred John Hurt and Anthony ...
4. The Elephant Man. Lynch earned his first two Oscar nominations (for Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay) for this biopic of the legendary Joseph Merrick, whose severe deformities earned ...
Original – Joseph Carey Merrick was an English man with severe deformities who was exhibited as a human curiosity named the Elephant Man. Merrick was born in Leicester, Leicestershire and began to develop abnormally during the first few years of his life. His skin appeared thick and lumpy, he developed an enlargement of his lips, and a bony ...
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