- Biography, Comedians, Motion picture actors and actresses, Actors
An authoritative new biography of the life and times of the greatest comedian of all time. Born in April 1889, Charlie Chaplin grew up in dire poverty, his father a hopeless alcoholic, his mother driven mad from syphilis.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and spare.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- sparerichly built
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Stephen M. Weissman
- First published
- 2008
- Pages
- 315
- Publisher
- Arcade Pub., Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781559708920
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