Poor Comparison

Taschen has a new decade available in their fine cinema series: Movies Of The 20s. I opened it up to a page on Buster Keaton's The Navigator and the essay stated Keaton, unlike Chaplin and Lloyd, would regularly play rich as well as poor heroes.

Really?

In the silent days (though not in talkies) Chaplin was usually the Little Tramp, who tended to be poor, but not always. Sometimes he'd play middle class, and in The Cure, The Idle Class and One A. M., he was even rich.

Meanwhile, Lloyd mixed it up even more. Of his ten main silent features (I don't include A Sailor-Made Man or Welcome Danger), by my count, he played his famed young go-getter type six times, a settled middle class figure twice, and a rich guy twice.