FASCINATION ABOUT THE SILENT COMEDY GENIUS AND LAVISH LIFE

Charlie Chaplin built audiences chuckle, but he also created us really feel. His films generally balanced delicately, as poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti observes, on “a good line between 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 creative �