Hollywood dramas used horror themes, including versions of The Hunchback of Notre Dame ( 1923 ) and The Monster ( 1925 ) both starring Lon Chaney, the first American horror movie star.

He voiced the gargoyle Hugo in Disney's 1996 animated film The Hunchback of Notre Dame, its direct-to-video sequel, The Hunchback of Notre Dame II, and the video game Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance.

Other successful animated musicals included Aladdin, The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Pocahontas from Disney proper, The Nightmare Before Christmas from Disney division Touchstone Pictures, The Prince of Egypt from DreamWorks, Anastasia from Fox and Don Bluth, and South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut from Paramount.

The first of these, occurring when he was three years old, was his mother's taking him to see Lon Chaney's performance in The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

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* January 14 – The Hunchback of Notre Dame is first published by Victor Hugo.

A 1966 Christmas special, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, was broadcast on 25 December.

In The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, Victor Hugo makes frequent reference to the architecture of the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris.

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* The Hunchback of Notre Dame ( 1966 miniseries )

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* The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Alec R. Costandinos and the Syncophonic Orchestra from 1977, a lush orchestral disco 28 minute epic re-telling the tale of Quasimodo and Esmeralda.

* The Hunchback by Some Say Leland follows The Hunchback of Notre Dame's attempts to throw a birthday party for himself.

* The Hunchback of Notre Dame ( 1993 ), an Off Broadway musical with music by Byron Janis, lyrics by Hal Hackady and book by Anthony Scully

The filmmakers decided to change Mulan's character to make her more appealing and selfless and turn the art style closer to Chinese painting, with watercolor and simpler design-opposed to the details of The Lion King and The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

While Mulan outgrossed the two Disney films which preceded it, The Hunchback of Notre Dame ( 1996 film ) and Hercules, its box office returns failed to match those of the Disney films of the early 1990s such as Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, and The Lion King.

He also had a triple-role as twin brothers and their father in Disney's Hot Lead and Cold Feet, The Hunchback, as a tap dancing executive in Arthur Miller's 1993 The American Clock and as a comic villain in the 1977 Disney films Pete's Dragon and The Spaceman and King Arthur aka Unidentified Flying Oddball.

The tradition was revived in the mid 1990s to publicize contemporary Disney feature animated films: Beauty and the Beast ( 1992 ), Aladdin ( 1993 ), The Lion King ( 1994 ), Pocahontas ( 1995 ), Hunchback of Notre Dame ( 1996 ) and The Little Mermaid ( for its re-release, 1997 ).

** The Hunchback of Notre Dame, 1993, ( as Quasimodo )

Films featuring Quasimodo included Alice Guy's Esmeralda ( 1906 ), The Hunchback ( 1909 ), The Love of a Hunchback ( 1910 ) and Notre-Dame de Paris ( 1911 ).

He was head cameraman on Hunchback of Enmeiin ( Enmeiin no Semushiotoko ), and served as assistant cameraman on Teinosuke Kinugasa's ground-breaking 1925 film, Kurutta Ippeiji ( A Page of Madness ).

The films produced were not successful enough, and the company was saved from bankruptcy only when RKO Pictures offered Laughton the title role ( Quasimodo ) in The Hunchback of Notre Dame ( 1939 ), with Jamaica Inn co-star O ' Hara.

In Disney ’ s The Hunchback of Notre Dame ( 1996 ), an innocent gypsy woman Esmeralda is almost burnt at the stake, but rescued by Quasimodo.

He played an aristocrat and prisoner in A Man Called Horse ( 1970 ), Emperor Marcus Aurelius in Gladiator ( 2000 ), Saint John in Apocalypse Revelation ( 2002 ), gunfighter and Dom Frollo in the 1997 TV movie version of The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

Grave of Georges AuricEspecially notable among his film music is the lavishly impressionistic score that he wrote for Jean Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast ( 1946 ); other films include Passport to Pimlico ( 1948 ), Silent Dust ( 1949 ), The Lavender Hill Mob ( 1951 ), Moulin Rouge ( 1952 ), The Titfield Thunderbolt ( 1953 ), Roman Holiday ( 1953 ), The Wages of Fear ( 1953 ), The Divided Heart ( 1954 ), Lola Montes ( 1955 ), Rififi ( 1956 ), The Hunchback of Notre Dame ( 1956 ), Bonjour Tristesse ( 1958 ), The Night Heaven Fell ( 1958 ), Goodbye Again ( 1961 ), and Therese and Isabelle ( 1968 ).

Adam de la Halle, also known as Adam le Bossu ( Adam the Hunchback ) ( 1237 ?– 1288 ) was a French-born trouvère, poet and musician, whose literary and musical works include chansons and jeux-partis ( poetic debates ) in the style of the trouveres, polyphonic rondel and motets in the style of early liturgical polyphony, and a musical play, " Jeu de Robin et Marion ", which is considered the earliest surviving secular French play with music.

The experience inspired him to record his 1994 album of Broadway standards, 10 on Broadway, and to begin work on a musical of his own based on The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

In February 2000, DeYoung was approached to perform a concert featuring his many songs from Styx, as well as his solo works and his 1997 stage musical The Hunchback of Notre Dame, with an orchestra.

On May 8, 2008, DeYoung's musical version of The Hunchback of Notre Dame premiered at the Bailiwick Repertory Theatre in Chicago.

* In Disney's 1996 movie The Hunchback of Notre Dame, " Kyrie, eleison " can be heard in some musical numbers and songs.

Most recently he devised the musical staging for Walt Disney's stage version of The Hunchback of Notre Dame in Berlin.

Films shown in roadshow format before 1953 included silent epics such as The Birth of a Nation ( 1915 ), Intolerance ( 1916 ), The Covered Wagon ( 1923 ), The Hunchback of Notre Dame ( 1923 ), The Ten Commandments ( 1923 ), Ben-Hur ( 1925 ), The Big Parade ( 1925 ), and other films such as The Phantom of the Opera ( 1925 ), the first Oscar winner Wings ( 1927 ), the very first feature length part-talkie The Jazz Singer ( 1927 ), the silent film Chicago ( 1927 ) ( based on the play that inspired the Kander and Ebb Broadway musical and Oscar-winning film ), Show Boat ( 1929 ) ( a part-talkie based not on the 1927 stage musical but on Edna Ferber's original novel from which the musical was adapted ), The Desert Song ( 1929 ), Rio Rita ( also 1929 ), Cecil B. DeMille's The Sign of the Cross ( 1932 ), the all-star Oscar winning Grand Hotel ( 1932 ), the Oscar-winning biopic The Great Ziegfeld ( 1936 ), the classic films Lost Horizon ( 1937 ), Gone with the Wind ( 1939 ), Fantasia ( 1940 ), For Whom the Bell Tolls ( 1943 ) and The Song of Bernadette ( 1943 ), the wartime tear-jerker Since You Went Away ( 1944 ), Samuel Goldwyn's Oscar-winning postwar epic The Best Years of Our Lives ( 1946 ), the flamboyant Western Duel in the Sun ( also 1946 ), and the biopic Joan of Arc starring Ingrid Bergman ( 1948 ), as well as some other DeMille epics, such as Samson and Delilah ( 1949 ).

* 2003 – DVD Exclusive Award Nomination: Best Animated Character Performance-The Hunchback of Notre Dame II-( shared with Ritsuko Notani )

They documented the reunion tour with a two-disc live set, 1997's Return to Paradise, which featured three new studio tracks: " On My Way ", " Paradise " ( a soft rock hit that also appears in another version on Dennis DeYoung's Hunchback of Notre Dame album ) and " Dear John ", a tribute to the late Styx drummer John Panozzo that has become a cult favorite among Styx fans.

They both returned to Hollywood in 1939 where he made The Hunchback of Notre Dame although Lanchester didn't appear in another film until 1941 with Ladies in Retirement.

After producing two films that had already been started when he began work at Universal, he presented Laemmle with his idea for a film based on one of his favorite classic stories, The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

He played Dr. David Livingstone opposite Spencer Tracy's Henry Morton Stanley in the 1939 film Stanley and Livingstone and was also memorable that year as Frollo in The Hunchback of Notre Dame, with Charles Laughton as Quasimodo.

Laughton was so pleased with O ' Hara's performance that he cast her in the role of Esmeralda opposite him in The Hunchback of Notre Dame ( 1939 ), which was to be filmed at RKO Studios in Hollywood that same year.

Knud Christensen, commonly known as Sebastian, was particularly successful with Cyrano ( 1992 ), based on Rostand ’ s play and Klokkeren fra Notre Dame ( The Hunchback of Notre Dame ) ( 2001 ).

She appeared in the circus drama Trapeze directed by Carol Reed with Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis in 1956 and starred in The Hunchback of Notre Dame directed by Jean Delannoy with Anthony Quinn the same year.

From its curious and irregular shape it is commonly called the ‘ Hunchback Bridge ’; also the ‘ Devil ’ s Bridge ’ after many legends: the famous legend tells that it was built by the Devil in one night after he made a pact with Saint Columbanus who promised him the soul of the first passerby ; but when the bridge was finished the Irish Saint sent a dog.

This began to change with a vengeance by the mid-19th century, as appreciation of medieval sculpture and its painting, known as Italian or Flemish " Primitives ", became fashionable under the influence of writers including John Ruskin, Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, and Pugin, as well as the romantic medievalism of literary works like Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe ( 1819 ) and Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame ( 1831 ).

Many film adaptations of The Hunchback of Notre Dame have been made, which take various degrees of liberty with the novel.

He then began working in film, collaborating with composer Alan Menken on the scores for the Disney animated features Pocahontas ( 1995 ), for which he received two Academy Awards, The Hunchback of Notre Dame ( 1996 ), and Pippi Longstocking ( 1997 ).

Menken is best known, however, for his work over the past two decades with Walt Disney Pictures scoring numerous films, including Disney animated classics The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, Pocahontas, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Hercules, Pippi Longstocking and Home on the Range, and most recently, Disney's 2010 animated film Tangled.

In June 1996, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Disney's 34th animated feature, had a gala world premiere at this stadium, with over 65, 000 people attending the event.

In 1939 alone he had key roles in Stagecoach, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Only Angels Have Wings, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and Gone with the Wind.

The plan was to persuade Sonny Riccobene who didn't get along with Harry to set up the Hunchback.

His books for Classics Illustrated included Romeo and Juliet ( No. 134, September 1956 ); Lord Jim ( No. 136, January 1957 ); The Little Savage ( No. 137, March 1957 ); In the Reign of Terror ( No. 139, July 1957 ); The Crisis ( No. 145, July 1958 ); The Buccaneer ( No. 148, January 1959 ); The Three Musketeers ( No. 1, revised, May 1959 ); The Hunchback of Notre Dame ( No. 18, revised, with Reed Crandall, Fall 1960 ); Oliver Twist ( No. 23, revised, with Reed Crandall, Fall 1961 ); Julius Caesar ( No. 68, revised, with Reed Crandall, 1962 ); and In Freedom's Cause ( No. 168, with Reed Crandall, 1962 ; published UK 1963 ; published US 1969 ).