THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO THE SILENT COMEDY GENIUS AND LAVISH LIFE

Charlie Chaplin manufactured audiences giggle, but he also created us really feel. His movies typically balanced delicately, as poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti observes, on “a fine line amongst sentiment and sentimentality.”  Buster Keaton may well not have elicited as much laughter or emotion as Chaplin, but his comedy was at least as Imaginative