City Lights kick-started Chaplin’s move both to more political films, and to a more political life. In 1936, Modern Times voiced his anxieties about industry and society.

Chaplin has another good picture. The three-year period since "The Circus" and sound will give "City Lights" a percentage of "novelty money," in that it contains no dialog. And it's Chaplin--which ...

Chaplin, ‘City Lights’ and Emmaus The 1931 silent film about selfless love has echoes of a much older Love. Charles Chaplin and Virginia Cherrill star in ‘City Lights’ (1931).

Timing. Such is the key to comedy. Without it, punchlines become awkward and predictable. Understandably, timing plays a crucial role in the silent films of Charlie Chaplin, who obviously could ...

On Jan. 30, 1931, United Artists unveiled the silent film City Lights, written, directed and produced by Charlie Chaplin. In a front page story on the same day the film was reviewed, The Hollywood ...

City Lights follows Chaplin's iconic Little Tramp character as he falls in love with a blind flower girl who mistakes him for an extremely wealthy man. The Tramp simultaneously befriends, through ...

Charlie Chaplin in City Lights, 1931. Though the era of talking films was well underway, this lovely silent film about the Little Tramp and a poor blind girl remained Charlie Chaplin’s personal ...

Chaplin wrote, produced, directed and starred in “City Lights,” in which he resurrects his Tramp loveable vagrant character, who woos a blind flower girl who mistakes him for a millionaire.