FOR Charles Spencer Chaplin, 1914 was a very good year. In January he was a minor British vaudeville star who had just signed a contract to appear in a series of comedies produced by the Keystone Film ...

During 1914, after less than a year at Mack Sennett’s Keystone Studios, Charlie Chaplin went from a member of the stock company to one of the studio’s brightest lights. He had developed his character ...

English musical hall veteran Charlie Chaplin began his film career just after New Year’s 1914. By Halloween, he’d shot 34 short films and the first full-length slapstick comedy and was already well on ...

Watching the new Blu-ray/DVD set “Chaplin’s Mutual Comedies” is a revelation because one can witness a master filmmaker coming of age. Charlie Chaplin introduced his beloved, baggy-panted Tramp in ...