About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 86. Chapters: Slapstick comedians, Slapstick films, Charlie Chaplin, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Buster Keaton, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Airplane!, The Three Stooges, Mack Sennett, Death Becomes Her, 1941, Pieing, Miss March, A Man Called Sarge, Dinner for Schmucks, The Great Race, MacGruber, The Naked Gun 21/2: The Smell of Fear, The Party, What's Up, Doc?, The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!, Death at a Funeral, BASEketball, Vivek, Police Academy, Baby's Day Out, The Diamond Arm, Wrongfully Accused, Bachelor Party, Spy Hard, Neville Kennard, Yuri Nikulin, Fred Evans, Payyans, What's New Pussycat?, High School High, Guest House Paradiso, Caveman, To Be or Not to Be, Blind Date, C.I.D. Moosa, Top Secret!, Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker, A Fine Mess, Ton Of Fun, Physical comedy, They Went That-A-Way & That-A-Way. Excerpt: Sir Charles Spencer "Charlie" Chaplin, KBE (16 April 1889 - 25 December 1977) was an English comic actor, film director and composer best-known for his work during the silent film era. He became one of the most famous film stars in the world before the end of World War I. 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 them, and from 1918 he was even composing the music for them. 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 fil.
