THE SMART TRICK OF THE SILENT COMEDY GENIUS AND LAVISH LIFE THAT NO ONE IS DISCUSSING

Charlie Chaplin built audiences laugh, but he also made us really feel. His films typically well balanced delicately, as poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti observes, on “a fantastic line involving sentiment and sentimentality.”  Buster Keaton may well not have elicited as much laughter or emotion as Chaplin, but his comedy was at the very least as Inv