Charlie Chaplin came to Mack Sennett's Keystone Studios late in 1913 as a little-known British vaudevillian. After a year, he had not only established his Tramp character, he also learned to write and direct his own films and achieved public recognition as a star comedian. The Ch...
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Charlie Chaplin came to Mack Sennett's Keystone Studios late in 1913 as a little-known British vaudevillian. After a year, he had not only established his Tramp character, he also learned to write and direct his own films and achieved public recognition as a star comedian. The Ch...
A simple biography of the director whose silent films immortalized such slapstick clowns as the Keystone Kops, Charlie Chaplin, Fatty Arbuckle, Mabel Normand, and Ben Turpin.
Tillie's punctured romance tells the story of Charlie, a city slicker who convinces Tillie to steal her father's fortune and run away with him. Once they reach the city, he takes her money and returns to his sweetheart, Mabel, until he learns that Tillie's wealthy uncle has died....
In Tillie's punctured romance, a city slicker talks Tillie, a wealthy farmer's daughter into eloping with him.
Charlie Chaplin, as a fortune hunter, tries to dupe a country girl (Marie Dressler) out of her inheritance.
When sound arrived in Hollywood in the late 1920s, Canadians were already holding some of the most important roles in the motion picture industry. Louis B. Mayer, from New Brunswick, was boss at MGM; Jack Warner, from Ontario, was head of Warner Bros. Studio; and Mack Sennett, fr...