THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO THE SILENT COMEDY GENIUS AND LAVISH LIFE

Charlie Chaplin built audiences giggle, but he also produced us truly feel. His movies usually balanced delicately, as poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti observes, on “a wonderful line between sentiment and sentimentality.”  Buster Keaton may well not have elicited as much laughter or emotion as Chaplin, but his comedy was no less than as Artistic –