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This burlesque of Hugh Antoine Darcy's sentimental poem sees Charlie as an artist in a bar, recounting his tragic past in return for a drink. In flashback he is seen drawing the lovely Madeleine and then the man who she ultimately runs off with, leaving Charlie distraught. The pictures Charlie draws are in ironic opposition to the intertitles, which are taken from the poem. So the "fair haired boy" becomes a balding middle-aged man. Back in the bar Charlie is asked to draw the lovely face of Madeleine but can only manage an amateurish outline. He is booted out and chalks a drawing, and eventually falls across it 'dead, drunk'. (official distributor synopsis)
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Charlie Chaplin
UK
Best movies:
The Chaplin Revue (1959)
The Kid (1921)
The Great Dictator (1940)
Chester Conklin
USA
Best movies:
The Great Dictator (1940)
Modern Times (1936)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Josef Swickard
Best movies:
You Can't Take It with You (1938)
The Crusades (1935)
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921)
Minta Durfee
USA
Best movies:
An Affair to Remember (1957)
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)
Around the World in 80 Days (1956)
Wallace MacDonald
Canada
Best movies:
Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
Smart Money (1931)
Flying Down to Rio (1933)