"Chafed Elbows" is an underground classic by this film director whose son played Chaplin
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Robert Downey Sr. - Wikipedia  Robert John Downey Sr is an American actor and filmmaker, and the father of actor Robert Downey Jr. He is best known as an underground filmmaker, serving as director and/or writer of such cult classics ... Daughter Allyson and son Robert Jr. each made their film debuts in the 1970 absurdist comedy Pound at the ages of...
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Janus Films  Films  There, he befriends a young woman whose father has gone missing; as he tries to ... George Bernard Shaw's breezy, delightful dramatization of this classic ... life of an aging geisha, whose angry teenage son is ashamed of her profession, ..... This breakthrough formal experiment is the first film the director made in New York.
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UNL | Frame by Frame | Archive  Robert Downey Sr. (center) with cast members on the set of his film Pound. .... He's also, of course, the father of Robert Downey Jr., whose recent success is one ... Chafed Elbows (1966), a breakthrough for Downey Sr., thanks to rave notices. ... Putney Swope (1969), Downey's most popular film, an oddball classic about the...
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Jeopary Questions page 1207 - AMERICAN HISTORY - TriviaBistro ...  SENIOR CITIZENS: "Chafed Elbows" is an underground classic by this film director whose son played Chaplin  POETRY: Carl Sandburg penned that this "sits...
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Robert Downey Sr. - Wikiwand  According to film scholar Wheeler Winston Dixon, Downey's films during the 1960s ... as an underground filmmaker, serving as director and/or writer of such cult classics ... Downey was born in New York City, the son of Elizabeth (ne McLoughlin), ... His first wife, Elsie, appears in four of his movies (Chafed Elbows, Pound,...
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The Great Dictator - Wikipedia  The Great Dictator is a 1940 American political satire comedy-drama film written, directed, produced, scored by and starring Charlie Chaplin, following the tradition of many of his other films. ... Chaplin plays both leading roles: a ruthless fascist dictator, and a persecuted Jewish barber. ... Chaplin as Adenoid Hynkel.
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The Kid (1921) - Charles Chaplin - film review - Films de France  Detailed review of the film The Kid (1921) directed by Charles Chaplin, and starring Carl Miller, Edna Purviance, Jackie Coogan. ... Five years on, the child and his surrogate father have formed a professional ... The boy's father, Jack Coogan, appears in the film in several small parts, including the pickpocket and the Devil.
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Reviews written by lugonian - IMDb  He suddenly appears, telling her he's one of her biggest admirers. ... As Tex tries to shoot them off, he becomes very much surprised to find ... directed and starring Charlie Chaplin (1889- l977), is a silent comedy-drama .... It is then up to the D'Artagnan and his musketeers, now older men, to reunite and save the day.
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Greatest Films of 1928  Chaplin starred as The Tramp (in the third-to-last Tramp film, and the last one ... General Dolgorucki/Sergius Alexander (Best Actor-winning Emil Jannings), ... on John Reed's Ten Days That Shook the World, recreated in Warren Beatty's Reds (1981). ... Buster Keaton (in his second-to-last silent feature film) played William...
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Mickey Rooney Profile - TCM.com  Rooney's father, Joe Yule, was a Scottish-born vaudeville performer and his mother, Nell, ... He played the same role in 13 more homespun "Andy Hardy" films produced ... But while he did not suffer any physical harm while abroad, when he came ... Moreover, Rooney was now 26 years old and thus, a little too long in the...
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Amazon.com: Vincent & Theo: Tim Roth, Paul Rhys, Robert Altman ...  Editorial Reviews. Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh goes mad with his helpless patron/brother, ... This is--bar none--the best film ever made about the life of Vincent van Gogh. As as Van .... this film. Tim Roth is brilliant as Vincent as well as Paul Rhys playing his brother Theo. ... This 1990 Film is still widely overlooked. This is...
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Charlie Chaplin : Overview of His Life  Charlie was thrown on his own resources before he reached the age of ten... ... and his mother, known under the stage name of Lily Harley, was an attractive ... Charlie started a career as a comedian in vaudeville, which eventually took him to ... with his characterization in a sketch entitled "A Night in an English Music Hall".
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Jackie Coogan - Hollywood Remains to Be Seen  Jackie Coogan first gained fame as a child starring with Charlie Chaplin in ... the 4-year-old Coogan performing in a dance act with his father at the Orpheum ... In the film, Coogan plays a child abandoned by his mother, played by Edna Purviance. ... and his only film appearance was a small role as a pickpocket in "The Kid.
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Chaplin (1992) - News - IMDb  7 April 2003 | WENN | See recent WENN news . Chaplin star Robert Downey, Jr is being sued by one of his former cellmates - for defamation. ... Recovering drug addict Robert Downey, Jr hoped to rekindle his romance with ... Downey, 37, went out with the slimline actress when the two were starring in Ally McBeal - but...
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Mack Sennett - Wikipedia  Mack Sennett was a Canadian-born American director and actor and was known as an innovator of slapstick comedy in film ... In 1915, Keystone Studios became an autonomous production unit of the ambitious Triangle Film Corporation, as Sennett joined .... Dan Aykroyd portrayed Mack Sennett in the 1992 movie Chaplin.
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The Little Tramp (1914-1936) | The Film Spectrum  Aug 15, 2013 ... Producer: Charlie Chaplin (Charles Chaplin, United Artists) ... Chaplin once entered a Charlie Chaplin lookalike contestand finished third. ... Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford and D.W. Griffith, called United Artists, a sort ... And by 1921, he had directed his first feature, The Kid (1921), a fine chowcase for...
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Chaplin Reviews & Ratings - IMDb  The movie makes clear how lonely it can be when you get too famous or too rich. ... Charlie Chaplin was the biggest star Hollywood had ever seen; a film director and ... Keystone cops who were incompetent policemen, featured in short silent film .... Moira Kelly (in two roles), Anthony Hopkins, Dan Aykroyd, Marisa Tomei,...
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Charlie Chaplin - Comedian - Biography.com  Feb 25, 2015 ... Iconic actor Charlie Chaplin was known for his lovable tramp figure from vintage ... Famous for his character "The Tramp," the sweet little man with a ... and his older half-brother, Sydney, not long after Chaplin's birth. ... a movie Chaplin would later say he wanted to be remembered by, and The Circus (1928).
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Charlie Chaplin Dead at 88; Made the Film an Art Form  Dec 26, 1977 ... Sir Charles -- he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth in 1975 -- died at 4 A.M., a few .... of course, evolved, so that the Little Tramp of "Modern Times" was a far more .... He was the author, star, producer, director and chief cutter. ... London, Charles Spencer Chaplin was the son of a vaudevillian and a music...
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Charlie Chaplin - Wikipedia  Sir Charles Spencer "Charlie" Chaplin, KBE (16 April 1889  25 December 1977) was an ... Chaplin was scouted for the film industry, and began appearing in 1914 for .... The child was taken by Dryden at six months old, and did not re-enter .... His most successful role was a drunk called the "Inebriate Swell", which drew him...
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Film History Before 1920  In 1913, Selig purchased 32 acres of adjoining land, where he established the .... Other studios followed suit and created their own stars, such as "the .... The first truly great film star was British vaudevillian actor Charlie Chaplin - he began working as ... Having perfected his Little Tramp character by mid-decade, Chaplin left...