LITTLE KNOWN FACTS ABOUT THE SILENT COMEDY GENIUS AND LAVISH LIFE.

Charlie Chaplin manufactured audiences chortle, but he also built us experience. His movies usually balanced delicately, as poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti observes, on “a high-quality line in between sentiment and sentimentality.”  Buster Keaton might not have elicited as much laughter or emotion as Chaplin, but his comedy was at the very least as