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At 95 minutes, “The Gold Rush” was the longest comedy film to date. It riffs on, of all tragic things, the Donner Party, ...
The wisest among us realize that what we normally think of as opposites are also associates. There’s life and death, joy and ...
Almost 100 years ago, Charlie Chaplin released one of his most iconic works, The Gold Rush. But unless you saw the movie ...
T he Golden Age of Hollywood was a period of Hollywood that lasted from the advent of talkies in 1927 until the New Hollywood productions began in the 1960s. This includes the pha ...
It continues the next night as the theatre presents Charlie Chaplin’s 1928 feature "The Circus," accompanied by the mighty Barton organ.
Q You’ve shared that Charlie Chaplin inspired you growing up, and at one point you worked as a Chaplin impersonator. How did Chaplin’s comedy influence you growing up?
English comic actor, filmmaker and composer Charlie Chaplin was born on this day in 1889. Here is a quiz on one of the most recognizable faces in the world ...
Step Right Up! See the Reinvention of the Great American Circus! As Ringling Bros. packs up its tent for good, all sorts of newfangled spectacles have sprung up to take its place ...
Chaplin always had that effect on his audience, even on his 136th year birthday. Charles Charlie Chaplin was born on 16 April 1889. Chaplin’s childhood in London was one of poverty and hardship.
She performs in her mother’s latest show Bells and Spells at the Hong Kong Arts Festival – and here talks about being part of Charlie Chaplin’s sprawling family.