to see how the boy is doing she encounters the doctor, who shows her the note (which he had taken from the Tramp); she recognizes it as the one she left with her baby years ago. Now fugitives, the Tramp and the boy spend the night in a flophouse. Its proprietor learns of a $1,000 reward offered by the authorities and takes the Kid to the police station, while the Tramp is asleep. As the tearful Mother is reunited with her long-lost child, the Tramp searches frantically for the missing boy. Unsuccessful, he returns to the doorway of their humble lodgings, where he falls asleep, entering a "Dreamland" where his neighbors have turned into angels and devils. A policeman awakes him and drives him off to a mansion. There the door is opened by the Mother and the Kid, who jumps into the Tramp's arms, and he is welcomed in. Cast Charlie Chaplin as The Tramp Jackie Coogan as the Kid ("John") Edna Purviance as the Woman (John's mother) Carl Miller as the Man (John's father) Uncredited Tom Wilson as the Policeman Henry Bergman as night shelter keeper/Professor Guido/fat neighborhood man/apostle Peter Charles Reisner as neighborhood bully Raymond Lee as bully's little brother Lita Grey as flirtatious angel in Dreamland scene Jules Hanft as the country doctor Frank Campeau as welfare officer F. Blinn as welfare officer's assistant Jack H. Coogan Jr. as Pickpocket/Guest/Devil Granville Redmond as the Man's friend May White as the Woman's maid/apartment owner with broken window Silas Merric Hathaway as the infant Kid Albert Austin as man in shelter/the car thief Esther Ralston as angel in the heaven scene Production Chaplin wrote, produced, directed, edited and starred in The Kid, and later composed a score. Innovative in its combination of comedic and dramatic elements, the film is considered one of the greatest of the silent era. Chaplin biographer Jeffrey Vance maintains that, with its "perfect blend of comedy and drama, [it] is arguably Chaplin's most personal and autobiographical work.” The film made Coogan, then a vaudeville performer, into the first major child star of the movies. It has been speculated that the depth of the relationship portrayed in the film may have been connected with the death of Chaplin's firstborn infant son just ten days before the production began. After production was completed in 1920, the film was caught up in the divorce actions of Chaplin's