Charley Chase remembered

David Kehr reviews in the New York Times a new boxed set of films made by silent filmstar and vaudeville actor Charley Chase, who was the rival of comedian Harold Lloyd.
 
Born Charles Parrott in Baltimore in 1893, he made his first film in 1912.  He was soon spotted  by Mack Sennett and became a Keystone studios fixture.  He moved in 1920 to the Hal Roach studios, where he was paired very successfully for several years with the then-new director, Leo McCarey, starting with the 1924 film Publicity Pays.

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Chase and Thelma Todd in Crazy Feet (1929)
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27/07/09