Video: 'City Lights' trailer

(Friday, January 30, 1931, 8:30 p.m. PST) — City Lights, an American pre-Code silent romantic comedy film about the misadventures of Charlie Chaplin’s Tramp as he falls in love with a blind girl and develops a turbulent friendship with an alcoholic millionaire, premiered tonight at the new Los Angeles Theater on Broadway between Sixth and Seventh streets.

Directed, produced and written by Chaplin, the film also starred Virginia Cherrill, Florence Lee, Harry Myers and Al Ernest Garcia.