Project Author: David Mills

June 23, 2025

PRODUCTION COMPANIES:
Charles Chaplin Productions

City Lights

True Blind Love

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Genre:

Comedy, Drama, Romance

Runtime:

87

Released:

1931

Rating:

8.3

Budget:

$1,500,000

Box Office:

$4,250,000

WRITERS

Harry Crocker, Charlie Chaplin, Harry Carr

FILM OVERVIEW

City Lights

A tramp falls in love with a beautiful blind flower girl. His on-and-off friendship with a wealthy man allows him to be the girl’s benefactor and suitor.

DIRECTOR

Charlie Chaplin

GALLERY

PRODUCTION TEAM

Al Ernest Garcia (Casting)

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Willard Nico (Editor)

Charlie Chaplin (Editor)

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Roland Totheroh (Director of Photography)

Charlie Chaplin (Producer)

Charlie Chaplin (Director)

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Gordon Pollock (Director of Photography)

Harry Crocker (Screenplay)

Charlie Chaplin (Original Music Composer)

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CAST MEMBERS

Charlie Chaplin

Virginia Cherrill

Florence Lee

Harry Myers

Al Ernest Garcia

Hank Mann

Albert Austin

Eddie Baker

Henry Bergman

Buster Brodie

MORE PRODUCTION

Harry Carr (Screenplay), Henry Clive (Production Design), Toraichi Kono (Driver), Charles D. Hall (Set Decoration), Alfred Newman (Music Director), Albert Austin (Assistant Director), Henry Bergman (Assistant Director), José Padilla (Additional Music), Harry Crocker (Unit Publicist), Harry Crocker (Assistant Director), Alfred Reeves (Production Manager), Frank Testera (Gaffer), Mark Marlatt (Camera Operator), Della Steele (Script Supervisor), Theodore Reed (Sound Supervisor), Edward B. Anderson (Still Photographer), Ralph Barton (Still Photographer), Arthur Johnston (Music Arranger), Alfred Newman (Music Arranger), Carlyle Robinson (Publicist)

MORE CAST

Jeanne Carpenter, Tom Dempsey, James Donnelly, Ray Erlenborn, Robert Graves, Charles Hammond, Joseph Herrick, Austen Jewell, Willie Keeler, Robert Parrish, John Rand, W.C. Robinson, Cy Slocum, Tony Stabenau, Mark Strong, Tiny Ward, Stanhope Wheatcroft, Florence Wix, Granville Redmond, Wyn Ritchie Evans, Joe Van Meter, Johnny Aber, Jack Alexander, T.S. Alexander, Victor Alexander, Harry Ayers, Edward Biby, Betty Blair, Marie Cooper, Peter Diego, Ruth Garcia, Milton Gowman, Ad Herman, A.B. Lane, Eddie McAuliffe, Leila McIntyre, George Nardelli, Margaret Oliver, Mrs. Pope, James Sheldon, Jack Sutherland, Emmett Wagner

'City Lights'

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