LITTLE KNOWN FACTS ABOUT THE SILENT COMEDY GENIUS AND LAVISH LIFE.

Charlie Chaplin manufactured audiences chuckle, but he also designed us come to feel. His movies often balanced delicately, as poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti observes, on “a fantastic line among sentiment and sentimentality.”  Buster Keaton may not have elicited just as much laughter or emotion as Chaplin, but his comedy was at the very least as I