This was already noted by Chaplin's contemporaries, such as Sigmund Freud, who thought that Chaplin " always plays only himself as he was in his dismal youth ", and by some of his collaborators, such as actress Claire Bloom, who starred in Limelight.

According to the Internet Movie Database, Chaplin, after being told Hitler saw the movie, replied: " I'd give anything to know what he thought of it.

Chaplin first thought of the film's famous final scene where the newly cured blind girl sees the Little Tramp for the first time.

Oona Chaplin was announced to play a character named Jeyne in the HBO adaptation of the novels, which many fans thought to mean she was cast for Jeyne Westerling.

Charlie Chaplin thought the moustache gave him a comical appearance.

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.

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.

Chaplin hired Keystone actor Hank Mann to play the Tramp's opponent.

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.

The comedies of Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton, the swashbuckling adventures of Douglas Fairbanks and the romances of Clara Bow, to cite just a few examples, made these performers ’ faces well-known on every continent.

Pathescope produced a large number of home versions of significant films, including Mickey Mouse and Betty Boop cartoons, classic features such as Alfred Hitchcock's Blackmail, and comedies by such well-known stars as Laurel and Hardy and Chaplin.

It is best known today for its series of Charlie Chaplin comedies of 1915.

Chaplin made 14 short comedies for Essanay in 1915, at both the Chicago and Niles studios, plus a cameo appearance in one of the Broncho Billy westerns.

Chaplin injected moments of drama and pathos unheard of in slapstick comedies ( the tramp is felled by a gunshot wound, and then disappointed in romance ).

Chaplin was the studio's biggest moneymaker, and Essanay resorted to creating " new " Chaplin comedies from file footage and out-takes.

His Keystone credentials were good enough to get him steady work as a comedy director with other companies ; he directed many of Chaplin imitator Billy West's comedies, which featured a young Oliver Hardy as villain.

While indeed silent ( except for one word and numerous sound effects ), the film is a parody of the silent film genre, particularly the slapstick comedies of Charlie Chaplin, Mack Sennett, and Buster Keaton.

This beneficial typecasting is particularly common in action movies ( e. g., Jackie Chan ) and comedies ( Charlie Chaplin, Adam Sandler ) but much less common in drama, although many B-list character actors make careers out of playing a particular dramatic type, and it is often suggested to would-be actors that they audition for roles that fit their type.

Since then he has gone on to become one of the highest-paid stars on British TV, mostly in comedies, appearing in shows such as Only When I Laugh ( as Roy Figgis ), The Beiderbecke Affair ( as Trevor Chaplin ), The Beiderbecke Tapes, Andy Capp ( in the title role ), The Beiderbecke Connection, Second Thoughts ( as Bill MacGregor ), Midsomer Murders, Pay and Display, Dalziel and Pascoe, Close and True, Born and Bred ( as Dr. Arthur Gilder ), and New Tricks ( as Jack Halford ).

In 1932, Van Beuren purchased 12 Charlie Chaplin silent films ( his 1916 -' 18 " Lone Star " comedies for Mutual Film Corporation ) for $ 10, 000 apiece, added music ( by Rodemich or Sharples ) and sound effects, and reissued them through RKO.

Díaz Quesada adapted from the Spanish novelist Joaquín Dicenta in 1910, as a tendency widely used then, of using literary works adapted for movies, as well as imitating Chaplin, the French comedies and cowboys adventure films.

Linder's influence on film comedy and particularly on slapstick films is that the genre shifted from the " knockabout " comedies made by such people as Mack Sennett and André Deed to a more subtle, refined and character driven medium that would later be dominated by Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd and others.

Silent comedy like Chaplin, Hal Beetle's Beetle Boy comedies, Buster Keaton, etc.

In the early years of " talkie " films ( beginning in 1927, see The Jazz Singer ) a few actors continued to act silently for comedic effect, most famously Charlie Chaplin, whose last great " silent " comedies City Lights ( 1931 ) and Modern Times ( 1936 ) were both made in the sound age.

Syd and Minnie Chaplin arrived in California, then, in October 1914 and he made a few comedies there, including the " Gussle " comedies and the feature-length A Submarine Pirate in 1915, which, second to Tillie's Punctured Romance, was the most financially successful comedy Keystone ever made.

Charlie Chaplin was one of the most famous practitioners of the toothbrush moustache, first adopting it sometime after 1914 for his Mack Sennett silent comedies.

Besides these comedies, the two appeared together in a variety of other films, twenty-six all told, and they also appeared separately and / or together in films starring Mabel Normand, Charles Chaplin, Roscoe Arbuckle and most of the rest of the roster of Keystone players.