Chaplin was a perfectionist. He did the scene six or seven more times, slapping me, slapping me. My mother tried to interfere, but he told her, ‘Just stand over there.’”

Later Berle would prosper with his own brand of slapstick.



Los Angeles (AP), Obituary of Milton Berle,
posted at 8:43 p.m. PDT Saturday, July 11, 1998