The Comic Mind: Comedy and the Movies

American artist audience Boudu burlesque Buster Calvero camera Capra Chaplin character Charlie Charlie's chase cinematic City Lights Clair clever clichés clowns comedian comic films contrast costume dance dialogue Doctor Strangelove Duck Soup emotional face Fairbanks feelings film's funny gags girl Grandma's Boy Groucho Harold Harry Harry's Hawks Hollywood Horse Feathers Hulot's human ironic irony Jerry Lewis Keaton films Keystone kind lady Langdon later Laurel and Hardy Lestingois Lewis Lloyd look Lubitsch machine Mack Sennett marriage Marx Brothers melodrama moral movie murder nature never Ophuls parallel parody perform perhaps physical picture plays plot reality Renoir reveals Roach romantic scene screen Sennett sequence sexual Sherlock Jr shot silent simply social society sound comedy sound films Spite Marriage story structure stunts Sturges style Tati tion tramp two-reelers Verdoux visual W. C. Fields walks wants wife Wilder woman Woman of Paris