The Definitive Guide to The Silent Comedy Genius and Lavish Life
Charlie Chaplin created audiences chuckle, but he also made us sense. His films normally balanced delicately, as poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti observes, on “a fine line involving sentiment and sentimentality.” Buster Keaton may well not have elicited just as much laughter or emotion as Chaplin, but his comedy was not less than as Imaginative –