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1936
Modern Times is a 1936 American part-talkie satirical slapstick comedy film produced, scored, co-edited, written and directed by Charlie Chaplin. In Chaplin's last performance as the iconic Little Tramp, his character struggles to survive in the modern, industrialized world. The film also stars Paulette Goddard, Henry Bergman, Tiny Sandford and Chester Conklin.
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Charles Chaplin was one of the most successful filmmakers to bridge the gap between the silent and sound film eras. Aware that his iconic Tramp character could only work his screen magic without spoken words, Chaplin postponed the transition to sound films as long as possible. After delivering the surprise silent hit *City Lights* in the era of "talkies," he waited five years before finally retiring the Tramp in *Mo…More
I must admit that on occasion I have felt as if I were in a Charles Chaplin movie, and that is Modern Times. I have been engaged in jobs in which I have chain processed an indeterminate number of information, within a chain production. I ate at the wrong time and at some point I thought they were going to install the machine that would feed me. Source Already at the beginning of the film we see the hand of a big clo…More
# 7 thing you didn't know about Charly Chaplin - He was the first actor to appear on Time magazine. Chaplin appeared on the July 6, 1925 issue of Time magazine, a U.S.-based news magazine. He was the first actor ever to appear on the magazine known for its influential cover photo. - He won only one non-honorary Oscar, and it was 21 years "late". Chaplin won an honorary Academy Award ("Oscar") in 1929, during the fir…More
