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Key Club Wives (1968)

My Old Kentucky Home (1922)

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Circus, The (1928) -- (Movie Clip) Swing Little Girl

City Lights (1931) -- (Movie Clip) Boxing Match

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Key Club Wives (1968)

My Old Kentucky Home (1922)

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Circus, The (1928) -- (Movie Clip) Swing Little Girl Opening sequence, from the 1969 re-release, featuring the star and director atypically billed as "Charlie," plus the song he wrote and recorded for this version, from "Charles" Chaplin's The Circus, 1928.

City Lights (1931) -- (Movie Clip) Boxing Match Famous scene in which the tramp (writer, producer, director and star Charles Chaplin) becomes a prize fighter, hoping to raise money for an operation for "A Blind Girl" (Virgina Cherrill), briefly mistaking his corner-man for her, in City Lights, 1931.

City Lights (1931) -- (Movie Clip) Wait For Your Change! The tramp (writer, producer, director and star Charles Chaplin) meets the flower seller, "A Blind Girl," (Virginia Cherrill), who will become his raison d'etre, early in City Lights, 1931.

City Lights (1931) -- (Movie Clip) Let's Buy Some Flowers After a night of carousing with "An Eccentric Millionaire" (Harry Myers), the tramp (writer, producer, director and star Charles Chaplin) is overjoyed to once again meet "A Blind Girl" (Virginia Cherrill), in City Lights, 1931.

City Lights (1931) -- (Movie Clip) My Friend For Life! The tramp (writer, producer, director and star Charles Chaplin) meets and quite by accident saves "An Eccentric Millionaire" (Harry Myers), forming a bond in City Lights, 1931.

City Lights (1931) -- (Movie Clip) We Donate This Monument... Famous opening scene, the tramp (writer, producer, director and star Charles Chaplin) is discovered at the unveiling of a statue, in City Lights, 1931.

Gold Rush, The (1925) -- (Movie Clip) Three Days From Anywhere Not a bad illustration of scale, writer, director and star Charles Chaplin with cameraman Roland Totheroh shooting partly on location near Truckee, Nevada, also introducing Big Jim (Mack Swain), opening The Gold Rush, 1925.

Gold Rush, The (1925) -- (Movie Clip) Thanksgiving Dinner Their nefarious third partner gone looking for food, writer, director, star and Englishman Charles Chaplin prepares a famous Thanksgiving dinner for himself and Big Jim (Mack Swain), in the Alaskan wilderness, in The Gold Rush, 1925.

Longest Day, The (1962) -- (Movie Clip) Maybe I Was Wrong About Rhoda First appearance of Rod Steiger as a fictional American navy destroyer commander, joining in the overnight assault in the early hours of June 6 , 1944, then on the deck Jeffrey Hunter as fictional Fuller, Joseph Lowe as “Sparrow,” Peter Helm as Mac, more anecdotes as producer Darryl F. Zanuck builds toward the D-Day invasion, in The Longest Day, 1962.

Longest Day, The (1962) -- (Movie Clip) Request Reluctantly Approved Peter Lawford as Lovat, (Scottish-born British aristocrat Simon Christopher Joseph Fraser, a real person) minimizing his oratory en route to the D-Day invasion, then Edmond O’Brien as Gen. Barton, and Henry Fonda (then 56, the same age as his character) finally appearing 90 minutes into the picture as Gen. Teddy Roosevelt Jr., dramatizing a famous actual event, in The Longest Day, 1962.

Modern Times (1936) -- (Movie Clip) Time Marches On Most of the climax of the writer, director, producer and star's opening segment, the factory worker famously caught up in the works, early in Charles Chaplin's Modern Times, 1936.

Modern Times (1936) -- (Movie Clip) Child Of The Waterfront The factory worker played by the writer, director, producer and star, out of the hospital but into new trouble as an accidental activist, then the introduction of his love interest, Paulette Godard as "the gamin," in Charles Chaplin's Modern Times, 1936.

Great Dictator, The - (Original Trailer) A Jewish barber resembles his country's anti-Semitic dictator in Charles Chaplin's The Great Dictator (1940), featuring the cinematography of Karl Struss (Telluride Film Festival honoree 1980) & Roland Totheroh.

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