LITTLE KNOWN FACTS ABOUT THE SILENT COMEDY GENIUS AND LAVISH LIFE.

Charlie Chaplin produced audiences giggle, but he also manufactured us come to feel. His movies frequently balanced delicately, as poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti observes, on “a great line amongst sentiment and sentimentality.”  Buster Keaton may well not have elicited just as much laughter or emotion as Chaplin, but his comedy was not less than a