A SIMPLE KEY FOR CHARLIE CHAPLIN'S "THE CIRCUS" (1928) UNVEILED

Charlie Chaplin was a perfectionist in his movies and a calamity in his personal life. Both of these attributes clashed as he was making “The Circus,” certainly one of his funniest movies and certainly probably the most troubled.The ringmaster starts berating his stepdaughter, but stops when Rex informs him that she's his wife. If the traveling