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Charlie Chaplin & Jackie Coogan in "The Kid" (1921)

With much anguish, an unwed Mother (Edna Purviance) abandons her child, placing him in an expensive automobile with a handwritten note: "Please love and care for this orphan child". Two thieves steal the car and leave the baby in an alley, where he is found by The Tramp (Charlie Chaplin). After some attempts to hand off the child on to various passers-by, he finds the note and his heart melts. He takes the boy home, names him "John" and adjusts his household furniture for him. Meanwhile, the Mother has a change of heart and returns for her baby. When she learns that the car has been stolen, she faints. Five years pass. The Kid (Jackie Coogan) and the Tramp live in the same tiny room. They have little money but much love. They support themselves in a minor scheme: the Kid throws stones to break windows so that the Tramp, working as a glazier, can be paid to repair them. Meanwhile, the Mother has become a wealthy actress and does charity by giving presents to poor children. By chance, as she does so, the Mother and the Kid unknowingly cross paths. The Kid later gets into a fight with another local boy (Raymond Lee) as people in the area gather to watch the spectacle. The Kid wins, drawing the ire of the other boy's older brother (Charles Reisner), who attacks the Tramp as a result. The Mother breaks up the fight, but it starts again after she leaves and the Tramp keeps beating the "Big Brother" over the head with a brick between swings until he totters away. Shortly afterward, the Mother advises the Tramp to call a doctor after the Kid falls ill. The doctor(Jules Hanft) discovers that the Tramp is not the Kid's father and notifies authorities. Two men come to take the boy to an orphanage, but after a fight and a chase, the Tramp and the boy remain side by side. When the Mother comes back to see how the boy is doing she encounters the doctor, who shows her the note (which he had taken from the Tramp). She recognizes it as the one she left with her baby years ago. Now fugitives, the Tramp and the boy spend the night in a flophouse. Its proprietor (Henry Bergman) learns of a $1,000 reward offered by the authorities and takes the Kid to the police station, while the Tramp is asleep. As the tearful Mother is reunited with her long-lost child, the Tramp searches frantically for the missing boy. Unsuccessful, he returns to the doorway of their humble lodgings, where he falls asleep, entering a "Dreamland" where his neighbors have turned into angels and devils. A policeman awakes him and drives him off to a mansion. There the door is opened by the Mother and the Kid, who jumps into the Tramp's arms, and he is welcomed in. A 1921 American black & white silent comedy-drama film written, produced, directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin, and features Jackie Coogan as his foundling baby, adopted son and sidekick. Cinematography by Roland Totheroh. The film made Coogan, then a vaudeville performer, into the first major child star of the movies. It has been speculated that the depth of the relationship portrayed in the film may have been connected with the death of Chaplin's firstborn infant son just ten days before the production began. This was Chaplin's first full-length film as a director. Chaplin wrote, produced, directed, edited and starred in The Kid, and later composed a score. First National wanted to release the film as 3 two reel comedies, not a seven reel feature. Chaplin wanted the film released as a complete work. Releasing it as 3 separate short films meant First National owed Chaplin a smaller salary. After production was completed in 1920, the film was caught up in the divorce actions of Chaplin's first wife, Mildred Harris, who sought to attach Chaplin's assets. Chaplin and his associates smuggled the raw negative to Salt Lake City and edited it in a room at the Hotel Utah. To release the complete film and avoid it being part of his divorce proceedings, Chaplin showed First National executives a cut of the film. He used this screening to re-negotiate his contract to receive an enhanced financial deal based on the success of the final film. This included 50% of the box-office once First National's budget of $1.5 Million had been reached and full ownership returned to Chaplin after 5 years. The film premiered at Carnegie Hall in 1921 as a benefit for the Children's Fund of the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures. Innovative in its combination of comedic and dramatic elements, with its perfect blend of comedy and drama, it is arguably Chaplin's most personal and autobiographical work. It was a huge success and was the second-highest-grossing film in 1921. The February 5, 1921 issue of Chicago Herald and Examiner: "The Kid settles once and for all the question as to who is the greatest theatrical artist in the world." Now considered one of the greatest films of the silent era. In 2011 it was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress.