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  1. 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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    • Charlie Chaplin (1972 re-release)
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    • Charlie Chaplin
  2. www.imdb.com › title › tt0012349The Kid (1921) - IMDb

    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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    • Charles Chaplin
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    • Comedy, Drama, Family
  3. Mar 12, 2024 · 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. Charlie Chaplin (centre) and Jackie Coogan (bottom) in The Kid (1921).

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  4. Filming The Kid. Chaplin and Jackie Coogan on the set of The Kid. Many of Chaplin’s admirers regard The Kid as his most perfect and most personal film. Yet it seems to have been born out of a state of acute emotional turmoil in his private life. In October 1918 Chaplin had compromised himself into a hasty marriage with a 17-year-old actress ...

  5. 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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  7. 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. Nice and Friendly, a 1922 silent short featuring Chaplin and Coogan, presented with a new score by composer Timothy Brock.

  8. www.rottentomatoes.com › m › 1052609-kidThe Kid | Rotten Tomatoes

    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 when the ...

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    • Comedy, Drama
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