Possibly one of the rarest FREAKS artifacts - this image appears nowhere in the finished film - so it's a: purely for publicity purposes b: part of the cut half hour from the film.
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FREAKS US big box VHS (1986)
FREAKS dvd (2002) released by Warner Home Entertainment.
FREAKS 'extended play' Japanese laserdisc from 1986.
FREAKS laserdisc from 1993. Released by MGM/Turner.
FREAKS video tape from 1999. Released by MGM/Turrner
FREAKS (US) video tape from 1990, released by MGM/Turner. Includes the Loew's copyright renewal from 1959.
FREAKS VHS released by Visionary (1995). Includes 'Ted' Robbins typo.
FREAKS - colour enhanced by AI (2023)
Freaks parody - Garbage Pail Kids Revenge of Oh The Horrorible 2019
Ben Head & Zeke Freak
Online presence for the Johnny Eck museum
1932 Spanish promotiona trade card for FREAKS - known in spain as LA PARADA DE LOS MONSTROUS
From April 1932 - FREAKS broke local box-office records in Utah.
Love the 'horrible vengeance'
Report of the first showing of FREAKS in the Philippines from the Philippines Tribune, Sunday 22 May 1932
Get the kids started early if you live in Ohio.
The earliest date that FREAKS was shown was on 09.02.1932 at the Ritz Theatre, Texas. Every other source since its release has stated 12.02.1932 in Los Angeles.
Source: Big Spring Herald, 07.02.1932. It was then shown at The Kershaw, Charlotte North Carolina on 10.02.1932.
10 days before #FREAKS premiered, bearded lady, Olga Roderick (real name Jane Barnell) was in the news.
Report from 31/1/32 on the FREAKS preview in Hollywood
Final resting place of Tod Robbins, author of 'Spurs' -
Cimetière Communal de Ste. Marguerite, Nice
Final resting place of Tod Browning, director of FREAKS, Mausoleum, Eternal Light, niche 20648, Angelus Rosedale Cemetery, Los Angeles.
The People, March 6, 1932. #FREAKS had already been out a month (but banned in the UK) - but journalism being as brilliant as always, they were still filming...
446 First Street, Newburgh, New York - the place author Tod Robbins went to recuperate when he nearly died after contracting pnuemonia in 1920 #FREAKS
News of #FREAKS hitting the UK in late 1931 just before the film's release in the BURNLEY NEWS
A very rare mention of #FREAKS in the UK print media during the year it was to be released (1932), from THE BYSTANDER
"Describe a freak, win a ticket" - April 1932
This journalist was blown away - from The Knoxville Journal, 27 March 1932 #FREAKS
Interesting article from 1939 on how Victor Henry (Hercules) couldn't get any US film roles after FREAKS...
Former home of #FREAKS author Tod Robbins, 301 Garfield Pl, NY 11215
Sadly Leila Hyams' obituaries didn't really get any bigger than this #FREAKS (10.12.1977)