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Bride (uncredited) Nellie Bly Baker. ... Slum Nurse (uncredited) Henry Bergman. ... Professor Guido / Night Shelter Keeper (uncredited) Edward Biby.
The Kid is a 1921 American silent comedy-drama film written, produced, directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin, and features Jackie Coogan [4] as his foundling baby, adopted son and sidekick. This was Chaplin's first full-length film as a director. It was a huge success and was the second-highest-grossing film in 1921. [5]
The Kid: Directed by Charles Chaplin. With Charles Chaplin, Jackie Coogan, Carl Miller, Edna Purviance. The Tramp cares for an abandoned child, but events put their relationship in jeopardy.
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- Comedy, Drama, Family
- Charles Chaplin
- 1921-02-06
Clyde McAtee. Extra in Reception Scene (uncredited) Michael J. McCarthy. Extra (angel) Heaven & (cook) Alley Scene (uncredited) John McKinnon. Chief of Police (uncredited) Ethel O'Neil. Extra in Heaven Scene (uncredited) Lew Parker.
The Little Tramp rescues an orphan from the streets and raises him as his own. Chaplin and Jackie Coogan make a miraculous pair in this clever and innovative marriage of sentiment and slapstick, a story of pancakes, fistfights, and dodging social services and policemen - as the opening title card says, “a picture with a smile - and perhaps a tear.” An instant success in 1921, The Kid ...
Excerpted audio interviews with cinematographer Rollie Totheroh and film distributor Mo Rothman. Deleted scenes and titles from the original 1921 version of The Kid. “Charlie” on the Ocean, a 1921 newsreel documenting Chaplin’s first return trip to Europe. Footage of Chaplin conducting his score for The Kid.
The most amazing thing about Charlie Chaplin’s The Kid is that it was released in January of 1921. That makes this film 100 years old! A century has gone by since it was made, released, and first viewed, and yet it’s still available to be appreciated anew today.
