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Edna Purviance in deleted scenes from THE KID

February 6, 2014, 1:40 pm
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Edna and Carl Miller
Chaplin deleted 6-7 minutes of the film for the 1971 reissue. The scenes mostly involve the kid's parents played by Edna and Carl Miller. The deleted sequences can be seen on the extras disc of the Warner/MK2 dvd set of The Kidor you can watch the original, uncut version of the film (with the deleted scenes added back in) on the Image Entertainment set of The Kid/A Dog's Life (both of these sets are out-of-print, but can be found on ebay or Amazon.)

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100 years ago today, KID AUTO RACES AT VENICE, the first film featuring the Little Tramp, was released

February 7, 2014, 5:34 am
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Chaplin biographer David Robinson refers to the “extraordinary phenomenon” that Kid Auto Races At Veniceis, noting in particular that “at the time it was shot, the Chaplin persona had still not appeared on the screen. The spectators at the races were therefore the first people anywhere to glimpse the figure that was to become universally famous. We can observe this first audience, as they progress from initial bewilderment and embarrassment at the antics of this obstreperous little vagabond to uninhibited laughter as they realize he is an entertainer. Kid Auto Races is thus incidentally a documentary record of the world’s first encounter with its greatest clown.”

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The tools of the trade

February 7, 2014, 10:32 am
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"I had no idea what makeup to put on. I did not like my get-up as the press reporter [in Making a Living]. However on the way to the wardrobe I thought I would dress in baggy pants, big shoes, a cane and a derby hat. I wanted everything to be a contradiction: the pants baggy, the coat tight, the hat small and the shoes large. I was undecided whether to look old or young, but remembering Sennett had expected me to be a much older man, I added a small mustache, which I reasoned, would add age without hiding my expression.
I had no idea of the character. But the moment I was dressed, the clothes and the makeup made me feel the person he was. I began to know him, and by the time I walked on stage he was fully born." (Chaplin, My Autobiography, 1964)

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Tramp costume, c.1918
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Chaplin's bowler hat, cane, and shoes from a 1987 Christie's auction.
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Prop mustache worn by Chaplin in The Great Dictator (1940), 
attached to a piece of paper signed and inscribed to Chaplin’s friend, Maurice Bessy:
 To Maurice - thank you for your book - merci! Charlie Chaplin, Sept. 1946.
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Rollie Totheroh, Charlie’s cameraman for over 35 years,
 looks pensively at the costume Chaplin wore in The Kid (1921).
Photo from 1954.
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82-year-old Chaplin holding a cane he used in Modern Times (1936). 
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Chaplin with Mary Pickford & her niece, Gwynne, 1919

February 8, 2014, 5:50 am
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Gwynne was the daughter of Mary's sister, Lottie.

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Charlie & Paulette at a wrestling match, February 1935

February 8, 2014, 11:02 am
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Note Charlie's glasses in the top photo.

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World Tour (1931-32) Revisited: Out & About in St. Mortiz, Pt. 2

February 9, 2014, 9:36 am
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Learning to ski, St. Moritz, c. 1932

For those who may have just discovered "Discovering Chaplin," my "World Tour Revisited" series follows Chaplin chronologically on his 16-month world tour to promote City Lights, which started in February 1931 & ended in June 1932. I began the series one year ago on February 12th when Chaplin left the U.S. for England. You can read previous posts in the series under the label "World Tour (1931-32) Revisited."

Presently (in February 1932), Chaplin is in St. Moritz, Switzerland, where he has been since December. He is accompanied by his lover and traveling companion, May Reeves, and his brother, Sydney.1 Douglas Fairbanks, who invited Chaplin to St. Moritz, was along for the first part of the stay, but by February had already returned to Hollywood. This post includes a few more pictures from Charlie's visit to the swank Swiss ski resort where he made his skiing debut.

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Outside the Palace Hotel, St. Moritz
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Charlie & Syd (far left) at the Apollo Kino.

Chaplin met several other celebrities who were wintering in the Alps, including Adolphe Menjou, the star of his 1923 film, A Woman Of Paris, as well as photographers Lee Miller2 and George Hoyningen-Huene, both of whom he had posed for in Paris in the spring. He was also introduced to Egyptian businessman, Aziz Eloui Bey & his wife Nimet. As usual, Charlie was the life of the party:
Having just completed City Lights, he ate dinner as if he were blind, wrapped Nimet's head in a table napkin and proceeded to extract an imaginary tooth (a sugar lump) from her mouth, then posed for Huene before a snowy replica of his alter ego, the Little Tramp.3
Charlie & May will remain in St. Moritz until they leave for Italy on March 2nd.

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Charlie posing next to a Tramp ice sculpture (right), and shaking hands
with a dog. Photos by George Hoyningen-Huene.
Vogue, March 1932
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May Reeves & Syd Chaplin in front of the Tramp sculpture.
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Charlie chatting with Adolphe Menjou in St. Moritz, top left.
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1 Syd returns to his home in Nice by the end of February but will rejoin Charlie in Italy and accompany him on the rest of his tour.
2 Chaplin supposedly had an affair with Lee Miller in Paris in March 1931, a month before he met May Reeves.
3Lee Miller: A Life by Carolyn Burke
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Charlie & Mabel Normand in MABEL'S STRANGE PREDICAMENT, released Feb. 9th, 1914

February 9, 2014, 12:30 pm
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This was the first film in which Chaplin acted in his Tramp costume (it was filmed before Kid Auto Races At Venice, but released later.) The film also features Chaplin's first appearance with his first leading lady, Mabel Normand.

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Tonight on TCM: THE GREAT DICTATOR @ 12:00AM (EST)

February 10, 2014, 7:10 am
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Holding a cat (probably one of his own), c. 1958

February 10, 2014, 9:04 am
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Chaplin with Merle Oberon & Fredric March, 1942

February 10, 2014, 12:41 pm
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RIP, Shirley Temple

February 11, 2014, 5:12 am
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Below are photos of Shirley with Paulette Goddard and Chaplin's eldest sons, Charlie, Jr, and Sydney, in Palm Springs, 1935

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Charlie up a tree--literally, c.1918

February 11, 2014, 7:43 am
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Picture Show Art Supplement, December 11, 1926

February 11, 2014, 1:43 pm
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Charlie & Georgia Hale on the set of THE GOLD RUSH

February 12, 2014, 7:28 am
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Also shown are "Georgia's friends" played by: Betty Morrissey (far left), Joan Lowell (second from left), and Kay Deslys (far right).
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Surfer boy

February 12, 2014, 12:44 pm
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I don't have a date for these photos but they may have been taken during Charlie's trip to Hawaii in 1917.
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Chaplin's CITY LIGHTS with symphony orchestra featured at Catalina Island Museum’s Silent Film Benefit

February 13, 2014, 5:06 am
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The real Charlie with impersonator Charlie Rivel in Paris, 1952

February 13, 2014, 6:25 am
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The photo is currently up for sale on ebay. The caption says: "Charlie Rivel greets Chaplin at a Paris night club in typical Chaplin makeup."

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I wondered if the impersonator was really Rivel since he would have been an older man by this time, but his costume looks similar to the one worn by real Rivel in this photo:

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(source: fauxcharlot.blogspot.com)

Below are more photos of circus clown Charlie Rivel as Chaplin: (source: fauxcharlot.blogspot.com). Read more about Rivel here.

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With Paulette in Japan, 1936

February 13, 2014, 9:57 am
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Valentine greetings from "Chawley"

February 14, 2014, 5:13 am
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70 years ago today...

February 14, 2014, 10:05 am
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Chaplin with his attorney Jerry Giesler.

On February 14th, 1944, Charlie was booked and fingerprinted for violation of the Mann Act (transporting a woman across state lines for immoral purposes)1 and conspiracy to deprive Joan Barry, his former protegé, of her civil rights. Clad in a yellow sweater, white coat with purple handkerchief, and brown pants, Charlie looked nervous and annoyed and at first refused to be fingerprinted with cameramen in the room, declaring, "I'm exercising my prerogative; if I do, it's under duress."


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Prints were eventually made of all ten of his fingers, a lengthy process which took twenty minutes. Afterward, he fumbled as he dipped his pen in ink to sign his arrest card.

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He emerged shaken and was lead quickly to the washroom. His attorney, Jerry Giesler, following him with a gasoline-soaked towel. As Charlie removed the ink from his fingers, Giesler told reporters: "He doesn't have anything to say."

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After the formalities, Charlie walked out of the building, past hundreds of curious onlookers & reporters. One elderly woman turned to her companion and said audibly: "The rat!" Charlie ignored her, proceeded to his car, and drove away with his attorney.

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1The indictment stated that Chaplin "feloniously" transported Joan Barry to New York in October 1942 "with the intent and purpose of engaging in illicit sex relations." As Chaplin's lawyer pointed out during the trial, Joan would have willingly had sex with Charlie at any time without having to schlep her to New York to do it.  
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