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Release year: 1931

Storyline

With the aid of a wealthy erratic tippler, a dewy-eyed tramp who has fallen in love with a blind flower girl accumulates money to be able to help her medically.

Top credits

Directors

Charles Chaplin

Writers

Cast

Charles Chaplin — A Tramp
Virginia Cherrill — A Blind Girl
Florence Lee — The Blind Girl's Grandmother
Harry Myers — An Eccentric Millionaire

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Did you know

• Orson Welles said that this was his favorite movie of all time.

• Chaplin's first film made during the sound era. He faced extreme pressure to make the film as a talkie, but such was his popularity and power in Hollywood that he was able to complete and release the film as a silent (albeit with recorded music) at a time when the rest of the American motion picture industry had converted to sound.

• Chaplin invited Albert Einstein and his wife Elsa to join him at the Los Angeles premier on January 30, 1931. When the house lights came up, Chaplin was surprised to see Einstein's eyes tearing at the final scene. Chaplin said in his autobiography that he had not known Einstein to be so "sentimental."