True Blind Love
A tramp falls in love with a beautiful blind flower girl. His on-and-off friendship with a wealthy man allows him to be the girl's benefactor and suitor.
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Classical in form, spare, meticulous and effortless.
- classical in formformally daring
- sparerichly built
- rawmeticulous
- effortlessdemanding
- earnestironic
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- CinemaSerfon TMDB · Jul 20247/10
Virginia Cherrill charmingly plays a young, blind, flower seller whom the tramp (Charlie Chaplin) falls for, hook line and sinker. Later that night, he is crossing a bridge when he encounters a suicidal, dipso, millionaire (Harry Myers) whom he convinces to hang about for a while longer, and who by way of appreciation invites him to a party at his mansion, then to a series of evening entertainments. Thing is, when he wakes up with the mother of all hangovers next morning, though, he has never a clue who the tramp is and so gets his butler to send him packing. Meantime, still determined to help his new love, our kindly vagrant reads in a newspaper that there might be might be a cure for her blindness - but it will be expensive. His boozy buddy offers him $1,000 to help but when, as usual in the morning, he sobers up and denies all knowledge of the "gift". The police are called and things now take a series of unhappy turns that force the tramp to think of other ways of raising the cash. This challenge is especially spurned on when he discovers that she has left her usual selling spot and is now quite poorly and being taken care of by her grandmother (Florence Lee) - and they are faci
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Cast
- Charlie ChaplinA Tramp
- Virginia CherrillA Blind Girl
- Florence LeeHer Grandmother
- Harry MyersAn Eccentric Millionaire
- Al Ernest GarciaHis Butler
- Hank MannA Prizefighter
- Albert AustinStreet Sweeper / Burglar (uncredited)
- Eddie BakerBoxing Fight Referee (uncredited)
- Henry BergmanMayor / Blind Girl's Downstairs Neighbor (uncredited)
- Buster BrodieBald Party Guest (uncredited)
Crew
- Charlie ChaplinDirector
- Harry CrockerScreenplay
- Charlie ChaplinScreenplay
- Harry CarrScreenplay
- Gordon PollockDirector of Photography
- Roland TotherohDirector of Photography
- Charlie ChaplinOriginal Music Composer
- Charlie ChaplinEditor
- Willard NicoEditor
- Charlie ChaplinProducer
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