Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton had been the 2 greatest comedy stars of the silent period, however because it happened, they never shared the display till effectively into the reign of sound. In truth, their collaboration didn’t come about till 1952, the identical yr that Singin’ within the Rain dramatized the already distant-feeling introduction of…
Charlie Chaplin got here up in vaudeville, nevertheless it was silent movie that made him probably the most well-known man on the planet. His mastery of that type primed him to really feel a level of skepticism about sound when it got here alongside: in 1931, he referred to as the silent picture “a universal…
Charlie Chaplin begined seeming in his first movies in 1914—40 movies, to be exact—and, by 1915, the United States had a significant case of “Chaplinitis.” Chaplin mustaches have been suddenly popping up eachthe place–as have been Chaplin imitators and Chaplin look-alike conexams. A younger Bob Hope apparently received one such contake a look at in Cleveland. Chaplin Fever continued…