Charlie Chaplin was already an international celebrity and king of silent cinema when he made “The Gold Rush,” his Klondike comedy adventure that had its premiere 100 years ago this month at Grauman’s ...

As much as any comedian who ever worked in front of a camera (I can't comment on his work before a live audience), Chaplin knew the power of subtlety and surprise: the snowball that just misses the ...

This fragile little man who has shaken the wide world with laughter looks at himself and feels he is a greater joke⁠—a less merry and more wistful⁠—than any he has concocted. There was, for instance, ...

IT IS the ambition of every newspaper cartoonist to get published in something that won’t be used to wrap fish in the next morning, and so, the other day, I was writing a book. It was a book about ...

Sir Charlie Chaplin was one of cinema’s greatest pioneers, celebrated as an actor, filmmaker, composer and the creator of the ...