Modern Times trivia
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Retiring a trademark bowler hat and cane, Charlie Chaplin made his final film appearance as what character in 1936's Modern Times?
Chaplin introduced this iconic character in 1914. Modern Times marks both his retirement of the persona and the only time audiences hear the character's voice.
Composed by Charlie Chaplin for the 1936 film Modern Times, what song's lyrics were later added and made famous by Nat King Cole?
John Turner and Geoffrey Parsons added the lyrics to "Smile" in 1954, transforming Chaplin's melancholy instrumental into a hopeful jazz standard.
Comedy legend Charlie Chaplin uses his 1936 film Modern Times to satirize the harsh conditions of what system?
Inspired by the struggles of the Great Depression, the film famously depicts its protagonist being physically pulled into the massive gears of an assembly line machine.
The classic comedy Modern Times introduces an instrumental theme by Charlie Chaplin that became what hit song?
Chaplin originally composed this melody as a bittersweet romance motif to accompany the film's hopeful final shot of the protagonists walking down a highway.
The factory boss in Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times tests a feeding machine to achieve what goal?
Chaplin's 1936 film Modern Times critiques industrial efficiency. The Billows Feeding Machine famously malfunctions, wildly force-feeding him corn and hot soup.