Charlie Chaplin
wobbling into awkward situations and miraculously wobbling away. More than any other
figure, it is this kind-hearted character that we associate with the time before the talkies.
Born in London in 1889, Chaplin first visited America with a theater company in 1907.
Appearing as "Billy" in the play "Sherlock Holmes", the young Chaplin toured the country
twice. On his second tour, he met Mack Sennett and was signed to Keystone Studios to act in
films. In 1914 Chaplin made his first one-reeler, "Making a Living". That same year he made
thirty-four more short films, including "Caught in a Cabaret", "Caught in the Rain", "The
Face on the Bar-Room Floor", and "His Trysting Place". These early silent shorts allowed
very little time for anything but physical comedy, and Chaplin was a master at it.
Chaplin's slapstick acrobatics made him famous, but the subtleties of his acting made him
great. While Harold Lloyd played the daredevil, hanging from clocks, and Buster Keaton
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