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Re: Chaplinesque?

From: lanhamca@aol.com (LanhamCA)
Date: 15 Dec 1996 00:41:03 GMT
Subject: Re: Chaplinesque?
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Posted-Date: Sat, 14 Dec 1996 19:41:03 -0500
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>Good call on the Dancing Roll . . . do we know what Chaplin film that was
from?
>
>Karen  kln@staralliance.com

It's from _The Gold Rush_ (1925, re-issued and slightly changed in 1942). 
But Chaplin borrowed the gag from an earlier Fatty Arbuckle film (I don't
know its name).  In any case Chaplin's version became the one everyone
remembered.

Rick
lanhamca@aol.com