A SECRET WEAPON FOR THE SILENT COMEDY GENIUS AND LAVISH LIFE

Charlie Chaplin made audiences chortle, but he also manufactured us truly feel. His movies typically balanced delicately, as poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti observes, on “a wonderful line amongst sentiment and sentimentality.”  Buster Keaton may not have elicited as much laughter or emotion as Chaplin, but his comedy was at the least as Innovative