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Slapstick Comedy: Slapstick Comedians, Slapstick Films, Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Airplane!, the Three Stooges, Mack Sennett, Scary Movie
Paperback. Books LLC 2010-06-11.
ISBN 9781157941828
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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Slapstick Comedians, Slapstick Films, Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Airplane!, the Three Stooges, Mack Sennett, Scary Movie, Pieing, Wrongfully Accused, Vivek, Baseketball, Top Secret!, Yuri Nikulin, Spy Hard, High School High, Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker, Ton of Fun, Physical Comedy. Excerpt: Sir Charles Spencer "Charlie" Chaplin, KBE (16 April 1889 25 December 1977) was an English comic actor and film director of the silent film era who became one of the best-known film stars in the world before the end of the First World War. Chaplin used mime, slapstick and other visual comedy routines, and continued well into the era of the talkies, though his films decreased in frequency from the end of the 1920s. His most famous role was that of The Tramp, which he first played in the Keystone comedy Kid Auto Races at Venice in 1914. From the April 1914 one-reeler Twenty Minutes of Love onwards he was writing and directing most of his films, by 1916 he was also producing, and from 1918 composing the music. With Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and D. W. Griffith, he co-founded United Artists in 1919. Chaplin was one of the most creative and influential personalities of the silent-film era. He was influenced by his predecessor, the French silent movie comedian Max Linder, to whom he dedicated one of his films. His working life in entertainment spanned over 75 years, from the Victorian stage and the Music Hall in the United Kingdom as a child performer, until close to his death at the age of 88. His high-profile public and private life encompassed both adulation and controversy. Chaplin's identification with the left ultimately forced him to resettle in Europe during the McCarthy era in the early 1950s. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Chapli... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=5142
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