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The Silent Clowns

by Walter Kerr · 1975

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This book is both a scholarly study of silent comedy movies, and an illustrated guide to the major comedians for the general reader. It covers such characters as Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd and Laurel and Hardy.

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medium · 384 pages

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