John R. Freuler

John R. Freuler. Additional Crew: Marriage on Approval. If John R. Freuler is remembered at all, it is as the man who, in February 1916, offered Charles Chaplin a contract to make 12 two-reel comedies for the astonishing sum of $670,000. Up to that point, no actor or celebrity had received anything remotely close to that figure. In 1933, he would tell an interviewer, "'Just crazy,' is what everybody [told...