Essays on Charlie Chaplin

Many renowned critics have called City Lights Charlie Chaplin’s greatest work. It is praised for its bravery to persist in the use of silent film, for the cinematography itself, and for the use of a recorded score. Yet underneath all of the technical elements, there…

The two 1930’s movies I am going to compare here are: City Lights (1931) directed by Charlie Chaplin and Trouble in Paradise (1932) directed by Ernst Lubitsch. City Lights is about a hapless Tramp who falls in love with a blind flower girl on the…

Charlie Chaplin It may be a surprise to some, but Charlie Chaplin’s real name is not Charlie Chaplin. His real name is Charles Spencer Chaplin. Chaplin was born in London, England, on April 16th 1889. Charlie had to learn to survive on his own at…

“A day without laughter is a day wasted”, the great Charlie Chaplin once said. Charlie Chaplin was a great decorated silent movie actor from the 19th century. He was also a jack of all trades you could say, for he had many professions which I…