Century of Slapstick #76: Chaplin's "A Jitney Elopement"
 Today is the 100th anniversary of the release date of the Charlie Chaplin Esssanay Comedy A Jitney Elopement (1915). This is one of Chaplin’s first movies with a reasonable plot; it almost feel like a D.W. Griffith scenario. Edna Purviance plays a girl whose father (Ernest Van Pelt) wants to marry her off to a […]
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