Some four decades before David Byrne and Talking Heads empowered people to “stop making sense,” Charlie Chaplin did just that in “The Nonsense Song,” which he wrote and performed in his 1936 movie ...

Charlie Chaplin’s Tramp ran with a traveling circus, into the Klondike gold rush, and took on dozens of mishappen professions—fireman, store clerk, waiter, and more—throughout his cinematic adventures ...