Autograph signed tribute to Charlie Chaplin from the American film director, writer, actor and producer widely acknowledged as one of the most accomplished dramatic artists of the 20th century. One page, oblong 8vo, n.p. (Paris?), n.d. On the verso of a printed telegram form from the Hotel Ritz, in full, "Charlot belongs to that grand horizon of the world imagination where stand the silhouettes of Quixote, Pantagruel, Pickwick, Puck and Punchinello…As a Film-Creator Chaplin has made his medium somthing [sic] more valid than an art." A fine statement connecting two of the most powerful names in the history of cinema. A couple of light stains just affect a few letters of text and the first letter of Welles' signature, a few small mounting traces on verso, else fine. From the collection of Maurice Bessy (1911-1993) French Journalist and Script Writer, Artistic Director of the Cannes Film Festival during the 1960s and 1970s.