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Article: Charlie Chaplin brings out smiles - even years later.(THE HOME FORUM)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- March 8, 2007
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Byline: James Patterson
My first memories of movies are of flickering black-and-white images of Charlie Chaplin. The revival theater in my neighborhood played silent movies often. In honesty, it was not a true "revival" theater. The elderly manager had only silent movies to screen to his small audiences.
Still, my parents, grandparents, and I gathered each Saturday night to see Chaplin movies such as "The Gold Rush." The manager liked this movie and showed it with great regularity - even if he had advertised another movie. I came to know the plot of this film very well.
Chaplin, of course, played the same character, a tramp, in all his early ...