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Filming started in December 1928 and ended in September 1930. City Lights marked the first time Chaplin composed the film score to one of his productions and it was written in six weeks with Arthur Johnston.
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City Lights, American silent romantic-comedy film, released in 1931, that was considered by many to be Charlie Chaplin’s crowning achievement in the cinema.
In this simple story the Tramp (played by Chaplin) befriends a poor blind girl (Virginia Cherrill) and convinces her that he is a wealthy man. Through his generosity, she finally receives the operation that restores her sight, but by then the tragedy-prone Tramp is doing a stretch in prison. In the famous final sequence, the Tramp pays a visit to her flower shop. Her gradual realization that this pathetic man is her true benefactor has been called one of the most touching moments in film history.
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•Studio: United Artists
•Director, producer, writer, and music: Charlie Chaplin
•Charlie Chaplin (The Tramp)
•Virginia Cherrill (Blind Girl)
•Florence Lee (Blind Girl’s Grandmother)
•Harry Myers (Millionaire)
- Lee Pfeiffer
Chaplin spent a week shooting an unused sequence for City Lights in which the Tramp tries to free a stick from a grating with his cane. Even before he began City Lights the sound film was firmly established. This new revolution was a bigger challenge to Chaplin than to other silent stars.
City Lights: Directed by Charles Chaplin. With Virginia Cherrill, Florence Lee, Harry Myers, Al Ernest Garcia. With the aid of a wealthy erratic tippler, a dewy-eyed tramp who has fallen in love with a sightless flower girl accumulates money to be able to help her medically.
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- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Charles Chaplin
- 1931-03-07
Feb 2, 2024 · Against all commercial odds, Chaplin gambled everything on City Lights, a silent film that bucked the trend and stands as one of the great landmarks in cinema. Filmed eighty years apart,...
- Bill Demain
Production : United Artists. Description : Wandering the city streets, the Little Tramp happens upon a blind flower girl who mistakes him for a rich man. The Tramp later saves a drunken millionaire who is attempting to drown himself in the river. The millionaire becomes his best friend.
City Lights (1931), subtitled "A Comedy Romance in Pantomime," has generally been viewed as Charlie Chaplin's greatest film - it was a "silent film" released three years after the start of the talkies era of sound.
