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Charlie Chaplin - The Most Famous Person Who Ever Lived

One of the most iconic and memorable celebrities of the 1920’s was actor, director, and producer, Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin, or Charlie Chaplin for short.

Before the “talkies” of the 1930’s, acting was dependent on an actor’s ability to express emotion with his or her body and features, usually in an over the top performance of comedy and action.

One can’t think of the name Charlie Chaplin without thinking of images of his most memorable character “The Tramp,” with his toothbrush moustache, those exaggerated eyebrows and expressive features, baggy clothes, a tight jacket, and a bowler hat.

Young Charlie Chaplin without makeup

“To truly laugh,” Chaplin once said, “you must be able to take your pain and play with it.”

In Charlie Chaplin’s first feature length film The Kid (1921), you can witness Chaplin’s versatility even in this age of silent filmmaking.

In the first ten minutes, Chaplin humorously tries to discard Anything Goes : A Biography of the Roaring Twenties FUFIN