A hundred years ago, Charlie Chaplin was the biggest film comedian in the United States. Drawing on the pantomime he’d mastered in the British music halls, the 25-year-old expatriate had pioneered a ...
The documentary attempts to restore a sense of mystery to Chaplin’s life and work, but the filmmakers mostly run through a well-trodden timeline. By Nicolas Rapold When you purchase a ticket for an ...
This fragile little man who has shaken the wide world with laughter looks at himself and feels he is a greater joke—a less merry and more wistful—than any he has concocted. There was, for instance, ...
IT IS the ambition of every newspaper cartoonist to get published in something that won’t be used to wrap fish in the next morning, and so, the other day, I was writing a book. It was a book about ...
A West Berlin cinema audience saw nothing to laugh at and nothing to applaud when Charlie Chaplin’s hilarious satire on Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini, “The Great Dictator,” had its German premiere ...
Diego Pineda has been a devout storyteller his whole life. He has self-published a fantasy novel and a book of short stories, and is actively working on publishing his second novel. A lifelong fan of ...
On Jan. 30, 1931, United Artists unveiled Charlie Chaplin's silent film that took aim at the talkie pictures. By THR Staff On Jan. 30, 1931, United Artists unveiled the silent film City Lights, ...
Kevin Hagopian does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...
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