SFist: “A Jitney Elopement” — Charlie Chaplin’s San Francisco film

File this — again — under “there’s ALWAYS a San Francisco connection”. A reader recently alerted me to the fact that Charlie Chaplin, America’s favourite clown (and perhaps the most influential performer in motion picture history), shot one of his bazillion-odd silent movies on location in and around Golden Gate Park. “A Jitney Elopement” is classic [...]

SparkleTack | April 30, 2008

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