NOT KNOWN DETAILS ABOUT MR. BEAN: THE SILENT COMEDY GENIUS AND LAVISH LIFE

Charlie Chaplin built audiences laugh, but he also produced us feel. His films frequently balanced delicately, as poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti observes, on “a high-quality line in between sentiment and sentimentality.”  Buster Keaton may well not have elicited just as much laughter or emotion as Chaplin, but his comedy was at least as Innovative