Charlie Chaplin

or foe was the willingness to inform." Many who would not cooperate with the investigating committees were blacklisted by potential employers and unable to work for many years. The playwrights Arthur Miller and Lillian Hellman, and the actors Charlie Chaplin, Zero Mostel, and Paul Robeson were among hundreds who were persecuted because of real or imagined Communist sympathies.” This shows how McCarthyism even forced unwilling Americans to turn on each other due to the consequences they would…

Comedies have been a staple of the American film industry since the days of Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton with the silent era, black and white, slapstick comedies. Movies themselves are a unique cognitive stimulus, so comedic movies are an individual slice of entertainment that combines the realm of comedy and of visual storytelling…

Actress-Director Rain Pryor talks about her father Richard Pryor's comedic influences including Charlie Chaplin, Jackie Gleason and Bill Cosby and the comedians who have been inspired by him like Eddie Murphy, Chris Rock and Steve Harvey. That’s his influence: together with Lenny Bruce, he is a god of standup as truth- telling, and with the consequences…

Many accused personalities ended up flipping on their comrades and to a sadder extent it seems like many innocent people were not allowed to work in Hollywood anymore. Many actors such as Charlie Chaplin were not allowed access to Hollywood and in Chaplin’s experience he was not allowed back into the country for a period of time. Writers who were blacklisted had the opportunity to write for films but were not allowed to take credit. This pseudonym…

earliest work by the Lumière Brothers in France and Edison in America acts became much bigger, crazier and widely spread. Here to clowning had moved over and become big in the silent films. One such name that rose to the top during this era is Charlie Chaplin who took the world by storm with his slapstick comedy. During the Silent movie era, comedy was big and people loved it because it was slapstick comedy which is exaggerated physical comedy and sight gags. People liked watching this because…

However Karl Kautsky explains that “progress is only possible through new ideas which at the outset are put forward by minorities [and] the suppression of the new ideas of minorities in the Party would only cause harm to the proletarian class struggle, and an obstacle to the development of the proletariat” (Kautsky 92). If America is putting down movements of equality and supporting the inequality of minorities then the gap between rich and poor will only widen and the class structure will…

In the stories and movies of today, heroes are portrayed and recognized as the powerful figures wearing capes and masks who save countless lives and who defeat a terrorizing enemy, yet not all heroes must look the part. Wikipedia defines a hero as a person who helps others by combatting adversity through feats of ingenuity, bravery, or strength, often sacrificing his or her own personal concerns for the greater good. Whilst visiting the small Canadian town of Deptford in the early 1900s, surely…

Why the 1920s Deserve the Title “The Roaring 20’s” Many people who have had the pleasure of living or studying the 1920’s would call it a prosperous and exciting era in human history. With soldiers coming back from war with a less conservative mindset and money to spend, society gave way to strong surging social and technological innovation, which has never been forgotten. The 1920’s was the best era because of it’s entertainment, technology, and advancement in women’s rights. Firstly, the…

An Age Filled With Mirages The 1920's, a time where "hip flasks of hooch would be drank, jazz music would be propelled at speakeasies, women bobbed their hair and would wear short skirts …’’ In other words, life in this decade was filled with excitement, wild parties and. Life in the 20's was affected by certain factors: prohibition, the economy boomed and the social change. On January 16, 1920, the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution (ratified in 1919) went into effect. The Eighteen…

to entertain themselves with movies and theaters. The “silent” movies are replaced by “talkies” where the sound is synchronized with the motion. The first audible movie was Don Juan released in 1929. One of the famous actors from that time was Charlie Chaplin. The 1920’s were also rich in writing years introducing some American writers such as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Carl Sandburg and Ernest Hemingway. The “Roaring Twenties” was an era that changed American…