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For those who do not know there is a chaplins comedy club in Michigan On Groesbeck connected to a bowling alley named FountainView Lanes where famous comedians like Dave Coulier and Frank Coliendo hav
...en these discs? Uli (OT: while on the site, also search for Buster and the Marxens if you are into rare comedy)...
...e obvious, such as Chaplin's embracing of pathos and emotion, whereas Keaton shunned those aspects in his comedy. In a more technical way, it is interesting to compare the consistent quality of Lloyd'...
Found this on alt.movies.silent: Yah! Who wants ta watch all dose stinkin' silent moovies? All dat readin' hurts ma eyezzzz.... Leslie (who can't help but think that Leonard Maltin was right...)
Is this set http://www.image-entertainment.com/image/ies/control.jsp the Sheperd version?
...featuring Chaplin imitators. At any rate, they were showing these films as a part of their Great American Comedy film festival. The guy who put the festival together said that he wanted to show Chapli...
...laced person in his own society, who falls in love with a blind girl. Known worldwide for his slapstick comedy and ability to captivate an audience, Chaplin's film brought smiles to the faces of chi...
... early Chaplin. Here is an EXCELLENT 16mm ORIGINAL RESTORED BLACKHAWK print of the 1916 MUTUAL three-reel comedy production ONE A.M. starring CHARLES CHAPLIN, and Albert Austin. WRITTEN and DIRECTED B...
...y their real first names on screen start, and when did it end? Since Chaplin arrived in the us with his comedy chops already pretty well honed, I would like to learn much detail about his earlier li...
Did Charlie make any comedy movies after making the Great Dictator movie ? What are his top three best movies that offer the most humor ? Did his son ever follow his fathers footsteps and act in movie
...whose Silent Comedy Quicktime Cavalcade (http://silent-stars.com/Slapstick/home.html) is featured in the latest issue of Quicktime News, an e-mag from Apple Inc., along with a nice image of The Tra
...eo set of Charlie Chaplin's Essanay Comedies the definitive collection of early one- and two-reel Chaplin comedy shorts that were thought to have been lost but were recently found on a farm in Normand...
In this week's Entertainment Weekly they have two critics squaring off about whether today's comedy is better than yesterday's comedy. There's only one thing the two guys agree about. They both ha
...ofessor' and greatest (filmic) influence. Other than the fact that Linder pioneered character-driven film comedy, were there any more specific influences? At first glance, there could not be two more ...
...s, attaching the Dressler-Dalton bank account at the Union Trust Co. The trouble which caused the musical comedy star to desert the playhouse last Sunday will be followed by a counter suit filed by th...
...ure will be a burlesque of the stories of the 'great Northwest, where men are men.' The picture will be a comedy from start to finish, and it is expected that Charlie's cuttings-up in driving a dog-te...
...rate, but is with us in spirit. [My comments will be in brackets.] Charlie Chaplin, the Essanay hero of comedy, continues to enjoy a great presence as an amusement purveyor and social lion. - Motogr...
... about her talent as a director. As she told Robert Florey in 1922: 'It would be pretense to say that the comedy chases in which I appeared with Charlie and Roscoe were directed by a director truly ex...
... family legend has it as 'Gone With The Wind Up' , late 1930's early 40's. The movie was supposed to be a comedy set in Nazi Germany, with Hitler etc. As he (long lost uncle) was killed fighting in th...
...iful, the other day. I went in skeptical because everyone was saying how Chaplinesque it was - the mix of comedy and drama. The last time I heard about a new film being Chaplinesque was when Bean came...
...h would make the year of his birth 1890, three years after Ritchie has started to popularize his style of comedy in England. 'I first used my present make-up in my vaudeville act with my three siste...
...C2 - A King In New York (not on video in UK) Fri Jan 1 7.45am BBC2 - Days of Thrills and Laughter (silent comedy compilation) After a real drought of Chaplin on UK tv... they've gone wonderfully mad...
...e Collection #1-5 (DVD/Silent) DVD-9-9041 $49.99 Rated: NR MADD:Madacy DVD VAR. 241 min. UPC#056775010690 Comedy Prebook: 01/05/99 Street Date: 02/02/99 Features: B&W Charlie Chaplin Includes (all fil...
...ike to have seen done over? I have two. I think 'A Jitney Elopement' has some good ideas in it, but the comedy never really comes off. I think Chaplin would have done much better with it if he had t...
... 'Face On The Bar-Room Floor' If 'The Vagabond' is an immature attempt at Chaplin's patented mixture of comedy and pathos, 'Face On The Bar-Room Floor' is still wearing diapers. On the surface a p...
hello On the Image website, a 'Chaplin's Art of Comedy' DVD has been announced...does anyone have a guess what this might be? http://www.image-entertainment.com/399/chap.html
... love their rotisserie-marinated lamb and their beef borscht. They play Charlie Chaplin movies and have a comedy club downstairs. All for about $20 for two.' Who wants to go? ~ Crooner...
...ecome attuned to the public (to which he yielded) at an early stage & it thereby shaped his character and comedy. But another case can be made to suggest that there was a point in time in which CC w...
...ke social commentary? Or is it just that the omnipresence of today's news cameras make for a new angle in comedy. You could say that about Abbott & Costello. Heck, they made World War II comedies. ...
This is too funny... 'Chaplin: His Life & Art', quoting: 'Michael Chaplin recalled a charming comedy scene from the trip: When you're seventy-two and you believe that you've had all the experience
Now that's a site! I suppose we shall see some more First Nationals after the new year? A nice job, David
...ing works of lower quality. Pssst, I still think the bullying cops in a CC movie signify more than mere comedy devices. Just had to sneak that in... ...
...is old Karno pal and, perhaps, to say goodbye in his own way. Would there have been more classic screen comedy from this dynamic duo? I bet David Gill knows for sure....
In the Richard Meryman interview with Charlie in LIFE mag in the 1960s, Charlie talks about a comedy he was working on: an unrealized comedy that I haven't heard about anywhere else. I wonder if anyon
...Corman and Buddy Hackett did lackluster renditions of Abbott & Costello routines that transformed classic comedy skits into duds. And, despite being a first-rate actor and having received an Oscar nom...
...no, and Wallace Reid. I think the best answer is that, while audiences in those days might enjoy screen comedy, they *respected* drama and spectacle, and so the dramatic stars score highly in these ...
...). I agree that the choice of subject matter is a bit odd here, and the result more played like a black comedy about the sheer dumbness of the body snatchers. However, there were also touching momen...
...ve of Chaplin movies that carried on into the 90s. But what about now? Who are the Archivists of Silent Comedy that will carry on this tradition? Youngson is dead, Franklin is off the air and now ev...
...ovies but, they didn't think that he was really funny. Do you think that CC's ingenious over-shadowed the comedy of many of his scenes? Scotty(In the end, everything is a gag. CC)...
...anana on his collar for sixteen days running.' We often hear that 'Tillie' was the first feature-length comedy made in America. But it wasn't. At least a dozen comedy features were released earlier,...
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