Charlie Chaplin (1951)

Record Details:

Title:
Charlie Chaplin
Date:
1951
Publisher:
New York : Henry Schuman, Inc.
Volume:
Charlie Chaplin
Leaf #:
000145
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
{"Media History Digital Library","Richard Koszarski","Jeff Joseph"}
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
March 21, 2024
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XIII two failures On top of Chaplin's personal unhappiness in 1919 the two films he produced that year, "Sunnyside" and "A Day's Pleasure," were generally considered failures. But after the enormous success of "A Dog's Life" and "Shoulder Arms," almost any picture would have seemed an anticlimax. In "Sunnyside" Chaplin experimented with a change of pace; in "A Day's Pleasure" he returned to tried-andtrue comedy formulas. Neither picture has been revived in many years. "Sunnyside," however, would probably delight today's audiences, used to the mature Chaplin; and "A Day's Pleasure" would be rated with the better Essanays. In 1919, however, the two films got a panning from both press and public. Photoplay Magazine, the screen's most influential journal at that time, and then presided over by the truculent James Quirk, pleaded editorially for Chaplin to "come back." Said Quirk, " 'Sunnyside' was anything but sunny; 'A Day's Pleasure' certainly not pleasure." Again the hint that the "Chaplin craze" was dying — this time for good, if he did not return to "comedy." During 1919-1920, when only these two short Chaplin films appeared, his position was further endangered by the more regular output of rising rivals like Harold Lloyd, Larry Semon, Buster Keaton, and the unfadingly popular Fatty Arbuckle. After several years of his Lone