City Lights News

A long-planned museum dedicated to Charlie Chaplin, pictured, will be constructed at the site of the actor's former home in Switzerland.

Charlie Chaplin and Virginia Cherrill in 1931i 1 2s silent classic City Lights. It's both a crowd-pleaser and a poetic masterpiece; a laughfest and a heartbreaker.

It may seem that movies are shrinking into something that people watch in bits and pieces on YouTube or on personal devices that you can hold in your hand.

Charlie Chaplin finally got around to acknowledging the 20th century in this 1936 film, which substitutes machine-age gags for the fading Victoriana of his other work.

Charlie Chaplin finally got around to acknowledging the 20th century in this 1936 film, which substitutes machine-age gags for the fading Victoriana of his other work.

UNION : The past comes to life again with the screening of a classic silent at the Old Town House on Town House Road.

AT 21, VIRGINIA CHERRILL HAD never landed a part in a film, had little gift for singing or dancing, and at a 1928 Hollywood boxing match failed to recognise her immediate neighbour owing to her shortsightedness.

The Detroit Film Theatre at the Detroit Institute of Arts is offering 50A movie tickets to view some great film classics.

Anyone who has heard of Virginia Cherrill knows two things about her and no more she was Charlie Chaplin's love interest in City Lights and Cary Grant's first wife.

It's a rags-to-riches story, a real-life version of the American Dream. It involves a beautiful girl, a Hollywood legend, the world's most handsome man, fame, wealth, aristocracy, sex, scandal and ultimately the redemptive powers of love.