The Definitive Guide to The Silent Comedy Genius and Lavish Life
Charlie Chaplin manufactured audiences chortle, but he also built us feel. His films generally balanced delicately, as poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti observes, on “a good line in between sentiment and sentimentality.” Buster Keaton may well not have elicited just as much laughter or emotion as Chaplin, but his comedy was at least as Inventive –