THE SILENT COMEDY GENIUS AND LAVISH LIFE - AN OVERVIEW

Charlie Chaplin created audiences chuckle, but he also produced us truly feel. His films often 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 the least as creative