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1920-1930 Comedy has come a long way from the times of Charlie Chaplin in silent movies to Ali G Indahouse currently on the big screen. ... The genre of comedy in film picked up as soon as film came out. Big names such as Charlie Chaplin were prominent in comedy films such as Chaplin’s The Kid (1921), The Gold Rush (1925) and The Circus (1928). ... Chaplin was one of the most famous directors in the genre of comedy along with Frank Capra, though he was more famous for his work in the thirties. As film in the twenties did not give comedians the freedom of talking, most, if not all of the successful comedy in the 1920’s was slapstick, comedy with broad, aggressive, physical action, including harmless or painless cruelty and violence, horseplay, and sight gags. ... Also the possibility of musical comedy was taken advantage of by Ernst Lubitsch. ... Comedy in films was now used not only to send up the common idiot, but also to satirise different areas of society, as the Marx Bros did. ... The appearance of Laurel and Hardy, one of the most loved comedy duo’s of all time, with their slapstick humour and funny one-liners was embraced by audiences. ... Landmark films include the romantic comedy, It Happened One Night, Duck Soup, one of the Marx Brothers finest, the Screwball Comedy, Bringing up baby, City Lights (1931), the last of Chaplin’s completely silent movies, Laurel and Hardy’s Dirty Work and Mr Deeds Goes To Town, one of Frank Capra’s finest movies.
1940-1950
For most of this decade World War II was going on, and no doubt much of the comedy from the 40s was influenced by the war. ... Landmark films included Chaplin’s The Great Dictator and the famous screwball comedy, The Talk Of The Town, by director George Stevens. However one of the most treasured comedy duos became big in the 40s: Abbott & Costello. They reigned as the new "Kings Of Comedy," producing a solid decade of box office hits including "Buck Privates," "In The Navy," "Hold That Ghost," "Naughty Nineties," "Time Of Their Lives," and their 1948 monster classic "Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein.
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