Editing Freaks (1932 film) (section)

===Casting===
[[File:Johnny Eck-Angelo Rossitto in Freaks.jpg|thumb|upright|Johnny Eck as Half-Boy and Angelo Rossitto as Angeleno]]
[[Victor McLaglen]] was considered for the role of Hercules, while [[Myrna Loy]] was initially slated to star as Cleopatra, with [[Jean Harlow]] as Venus.{{sfn|Mank|2005|p=124}} Ultimately, Thalberg decided not to cast any major stars in the picture.{{sfn|Mank|2005|pages=123–125}} Instead, Russian actress [[Olga Baclanova]] was cast as Cleopatra, based on her success in a Los Angeles-produced stage production of ''The Silent Witness''.{{sfn|Mank|2005|p=124}}

Harry Earles was cast as Hans, the carnival sideshow performer whom Cleopatra attempts to murder for his estate.{{sfn|Mank|2005|p=124}} Earles' real-life sister, [[The Doll Family|Daisy]], portrayed his dwarf love interest, Frieda.{{sfn|Mank|2005|p=124}}

Among the supporting characters featured as "freaks", casting agent Ben Piazza scoured the East Coast for over a month and put out advertisements for photographs and screen tests, scouting carnivals and sideshows for Browning; amongst others, a girl with "Elephant skin", "a boy with dog legs", "a giant", "a bunch of pygmies" and the legendary dwarf performer "Mega Mite" didn't make the cut.<ref name="mf" /><ref name="dfr">{{cite web|url=https://deepfocusreviews.com/definatives/freaks/|title=Freaks}}</ref> The cast that would included Peter Robinson ("The Human Skeleton"); Olga Roderick ("The [[Bearded Lady]]");<ref name=sedalia>{{cite news|work=The Sedalia Democrat|location=Sedalia, Missouri|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/38718181/the_sedalia_democrat/|title="Freaks" Now At Liberty Is Most Unusual Motion Picture Ever Produced For Screen|via=Newspapers.com|date=February 21, 1932|page=12}}</ref> Frances O'Connor and Martha Morris ("[[armless wonder]]s");{{sfn|Matthews|2009|p=54}} and the conjoined twins Daisy and Violet Hilton.{{sfn|Mank|2005|p=124}} Among the [[Microcephaly|microcephalic]] characters who appear in the film (and are referred to as "pinheads" throughout) were Zip and Pip (Elvira and Jenny Lee Snow) and Schlitzie, a man named Simon Metz who wore a dress.{{sfn|Nicholas|2018|p=236}}

Also featured were the [[intersex]] Josephine Joseph, with her left-right divided gender;{{sfn|Bombaci|2006|p=101}} Johnny Eck, the legless man, who was scouted for the role while performing in [[Montreal]];{{sfn|Nicholas|2018|p=136}} the completely limbless Prince Randian (also known as The Human Torso and miscredited as "Rardion");{{sfn|Mank|2005|p=118}} [[Elizabeth Green the Stork Woman]]; and Koo-Koo the Bird Girl, who had [[Virchow–Seckel syndrome]] or bird-headed dwarfism and is most remembered for the scene wherein she dances on the table.{{sfn|Mank|2005|p=124}}