Vintage 8x10 in. US single-weight glossy restrike photograph (not a vintage original photo printed at the time it was taken, but one that was printed from the original negative at a later time) from the classic silent film drama/romance thriller, HE WHO GETS SLAPPED, released in 1924 by the newly-former Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) and directed by Victor Sjöström (billed as Victor Seastrom). An inventor (Lon Chaney) who, suffering betrayal in life, makes a career of it by becoming a circus clown whose act consists of getting slapped by all the other clowns. He falls in love with another circus performer (Norma Shearer) and those who betrayed him (Marc McDermott and Tully Marshall) enter his life yet again. The image features a beautiful interior close shot of the handsome circus performer Bezano (John Gilbert) as he kindly tries to removes the hands of fellow performer Zinida (Paulette Duval) from his shoulders as he looks at her. Printed from the original negative, most likely in the 1950's, this vintage restrike photograph is in very fine+ condition without any pinholes, tears, stains, or other flaws. He Who Gets Slapped was the first production to start filming in the newly formed Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was not their first release, though; it was held until the holiday season when attendance is higher for "important" films. It is, however, the first film to feature Leo the Lion roaring as MGM's logo. Designed by Howard Dietz, the logo was first used for the Goldwyn Pictures Corporation film, Polly of the Circus (1917), and passed to MGM when Goldwyn merged with two other companies to form MGM. Fittingly and somewhat ironically, a real lion plays a key plot point in the film's story. "He Who Gets Slapped" was originally a Russian book by Leonid Andreyev and was translated into English and adapted for the stage by Gregory Zillboorg. It opened on Jan. 9, 1922 at the Garrick Theatre in New York and ran for 182 performances. With the exception of Consuelo (Norma Shearer's character), most of the characters in the stage production did not have names. The Lon Chaney character in the play was simply "He", and the others "a Juggler," "an Acrobat", etc.