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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] .
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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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Mar 12, 2024 · Last Updated: Mar 12, 2024 • Article History. The Kid, American silent film comedy-drama, released in 1921, that starred Charlie Chaplin in the first feature film with his popular “ Little Tramp ” character. It elevated Jackie Coogan to the status of the film industry’s first child superstar.
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The film was edited in secret in a hotel in Salt Lake City and an anonymous studio in New York. There were further financial problems with the distributors but when The Kid was finally released in February 1921, it was an instant triumph everywhere it was shown, perhaps the greatest triumph of Chaplin’s career.
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 remains a masterwork of cinema.
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The Kid (1921) Movie Info Synopsis Chaplin's first full-length feature is a silent masterpiece about a little tramp who discovers a little orphan and brings him up but is left desolate...
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“Charlie” on the Ocean, a 1921 newsreel documenting Chaplin’s first return trip to Europe. Footage of Chaplin conducting his score for The Kid. Nice and Friendly, a 1922 silent short featuring Chaplin and Coogan, presented with a new score by composer Timothy Brock. Trailers. PLUS: An essay by film scholar Tom Gunning. New cover by F. Ron Miller.