Chaplin officially began pre-production of the film in May 1928 and hired Austrian art director Henry Clive to design the sets that summer.

Charlie Chaplin got his start at Keystone when Sennett hired him fresh from his vaudeville career to make silent films.

Curt Chaplin was hired to serve as the show's announcer and court reporter, which he still does to this day.

A member of NYMPC had seen Chaplin perform ( accounts of whom and where vary ) and felt that he would make a good replacement for Fred Mace, outgoing star of their Keystone Studios.

Chaplin thought the Keystone comedies " a crude mélange of rough and rumble ", but liked the idea of working in films and justified, " Besides, it would mean a new life ".

After some adjustments, Chaplin signed with Keystone on 25 September.

Chaplin arrived in Los Angeles, home of the Keystone studio, in early December 1913.

Chaplin proceeded to direct every short film in which he appeared for Keystone, approximately one per week, which he remembered as the most exciting time of his career.

In June, Keystone issued adverts in Britain with the words: " Are you prepared for the Chaplin boom?

Sidney Drew was the leader in developing " polite comedy ", while slapstick was refined by Fatty Arbuckle and Charles Chaplin, who both started with Mack Sennet's Keystone company.

As early as 1914, Sennet shifted the Keystone Cops from starring roles to background ensemble, in support of comedians like Charlie Chaplin and Fatty Arbuckle.

The Keystone Cops serve as supporting players for Marie Dressler, Mabel Normand, and Chaplin in the first full-length Sennett comedy feature, Tillie's Punctured Romance ( 1914 ), as well as in Mabel's New Hero ( 1913 ) with Normand and Arbuckle, Making a Living ( 1914 ) with Chaplin in his first screen appearance ( pre-Tramp ), In the Clutches of the Gang ( 1914 ) with Normand, Arbuckle, and Al St. John, and Wished on Mabel ( 1915 ) with Arbuckle and Normand, among others.

The short, filmed in 1914, stars Ford Sterling, Mack Swain, Edgar Kennedy, and Al St. John and includes a previously unknown cameo with Charlie Chaplin as a Keystone Kop.

Many important actors started their careers with Sennett, including Mabel Normand, Charlie Chaplin, Fatty Arbuckle, Raymond Griffith, Gloria Swanson, Ford Sterling, Andy Clyde, Chester Conklin, Polly Moran, Louise Fazenda, The Keystone Kops, Bing Crosby, and W. C. Fields.

Building on its later popularity in the nineteenth and early twentieth-century ethnic routines of the American vaudeville house, the style was explored extensively during the " golden era " of black and white, silent movies directed by figures Mack Sennett and Hal Roach and featuring such notables as Charlie Chaplin, Laurel and Hardy, the Marx Brothers, the Keystone Kops, Gumball ( TV series ) the Three Stooges and El Chavo.

However, Berle's claims to have appeared in many of these films, particularly the 1914 Chaplin Keystone comedy Tillie's Punctured Romance, are hotly disputed by some, who cite the lack of supporting evidence that Berle even visited the West Coast until much later.

He was quickly replaced by Harry Myers, who Chaplin had known while under contract at Keystone Studios.

Similarly, Esslin cites early film comedians and music hall artists such as Charlie Chaplin, The Keystone Cops and Buster Keaton as direct influences ( Keaton even starred in Beckett's Film in 1965 ).

* December 29, Charlie Chaplin signs a contract with Mack Sennett to begin making films at Keystone Studios.

It would play an important role in developing slapstick comedy as the home to the Keystone Cops, English actor Charlie Chaplin, and others.

In late 1914 Essanay succeeded in hiring Charlie Chaplin away from Mack Sennett's Keystone Studios, offering Chaplin a higher salary and his own production unit.

Eddie Cline began working for Mack Sennett's Keystone Studios in 1914 and supported Charlie Chaplin in some of the shorts he made at the studio.

A silent film directed by Mack Sennett, the film stars Marie Dressler, Mabel Normand, Charles Chaplin, and the Keystone Cops.

The character of the Tramp was originally created by accident while Chaplin was working at Mack Sennett's Keystone Studio.

Chaplin, with his Little Tramp character, quickly became the most popular star in Keystone director Mack Sennett's company of players.

* 1889 – Charlie Chaplin, English actor, director, and composer ( d. 1977 )

Sir Charles Spencer " Charlie " Chaplin, KBE ( 16 April 188925 December 1977 ) was an English comic actor, film director and composer best known for his work during the silent film era.

For The Pawnshop he recruited the actor Henry Bergman, who was to work with Chaplin for 30 years.

He also often employed inanimate objects in his films, often transforming them into other objects in an almost surreal way, such as in The Pawnshop ( 1916 ) and One A. M. ( 1916 ), where Chaplin is the only actor aside Chester Conklin's brief appearance in the very first scene.

In the silent era, with English actor Charlie Chaplin its biggest star, audiences were receptive to films from all nations.

** Charles Chaplin Jr., American actor ( b. 1925 )

* April 16 – Charlie Chaplin, English actor and film director ( d. 1977 )

* May 5 – Charles Chaplin Jr., American actor ( d. 1968 )

In 1943, O ' Neill disowned his daughter Oona for marrying the English actor, director and producer Charlie Chaplin when she was 18 and Chaplin was 54.

* Charlie Chaplin, actor, was boarded at and attended the Central London District School ( Cuckoo Schools ), Hanwell, from June 1896 until January 1898.

* Ben Chaplin, actor.

* Charlie Chaplin, actor, born in 1889, grew up in Kennington, and lived in several different houses at different times, in West Square, Methley Street and Kennington Road.

As a result, his favorite actor was Charlie Chaplin.

* Charlie Chaplin, actor, founding member, United Artists

As a comic actor, Totò is classified as an heir of the Commedia dell ' Arte tradition, and has been compared to such figures as Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin.

* Charles Chaplin Jr. ( 1925 – 1968 ), actor, son of Charlie Chaplin

She also had affairs with Clark Gable, Charlie Chaplin, Erich Maria Remarque, Errol Flynn and Mexican actor Arturo de Córdova.

* Charlie Chaplin ( 1889 – 1977 ), an English comic actor and director who used mime, slapstick and other visual, non-verbal comedic routines.

* Charlie Chaplin, British director and actor.

The comic actor Charlie Chaplin, who spent some time with his mother in Lambeth workhouse, records in his autobiography that when he and his half-brother returned to the workhouse after having been sent to a school in Hanwell, he was met at the gate by his mother Hannah, dressed in her own clothes.

Welles believed that a version directed by him would have been better, as he considered Chaplin a " genius " as an actor, but merely competent as a director ; however, Welles urgently needed money, and so signed away all rights to the script.