A SECRET WEAPON FOR THE SILENT COMEDY GENIUS AND LAVISH LIFE

Charlie Chaplin made audiences laugh, but he also produced us really feel. His movies often well balanced delicately, as poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti observes, on “a fantastic line between 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 –