Hollywood studios did not want Charlie Chaplin to make The Great Dictator. When he first started writing the script in 1938, the U.S. had not yet entered World War II. In fact, it still enjoyed ...

Charlie Chaplin's silent comedy, City Lights, is often cited as one of the greatest films ever made – and its final moments are key to its reputation.

Film scholars say the sequence exemplifies Chaplin’s mastery of storytelling through simplicity, emotion and visual performance.

The actress, who is the granddaughter of Charlie Chaplin, sees “a lot of parallels” between the late filmmaker and Avatar’s writer-director James Cameron She says, “Charlie Chaplin made millions of ...