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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Lifestyle
Charlotte O'Sullivan

The Real Charlie Chaplin movie review: a timely portrait of a genius who could also be a monster

In the silent movie classic City Lights, Virgina Cherrill plays the love interest of Charlie Chaplin’s alter ego, the Tramp. As she later told the press, though there were rumours, she never stood a chance of becoming Chaplin’s real girlfriend: “I was much too old. I was 20!”

Haha! Oh, wait, she’s not joking.

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