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Photo by Lord Snowdon, 1957
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Skiing in Yosemite, c.1935
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"A Christmas Carol" by Charlie Chaplin
Los Angeles Times, December 24, 1916:
Los Angeles Times, December 24, 1916:
Do you know what I envy around Christmas time? Well, it's the old chap with the long white whiskers. I'd like to be Santa Claus for thirty days once every twelve months. Children are fond of me, but they love Santa Claus with undying affection.
Every time Christmas comes around and I find myself in this land of sunshine and flowers, instead of knee-deep in snow, I have repinings. I remember Christmas in London in the old days when it was hard scratching for me to get sixpence so that I might see the Christmas pantomime spectacle at Drury Lane, "Jack & the Beanstalk,""Puss In Boots," or "Cinderella."
Some day, when I get rich enough, I'm going to visit my old home in England made up as Santa Claus with all sorts of presents for all sorts of children, and I'm going to have the waifs follow me round in the snow, singing outside poor people's windows:
"Good Christians all rejoi--oi-oice,
With heart and soul and voi-oi-oice."
And then somebody'll hand me out a mug of mulled ale and I'll hand in my presents for the kiddies, taken out of an automobile truck, because no reindeer team could haul what I want to take along.
Say! I'd like a slab of roast beef, that's been cooked on a spit, and a big helping of old-fashioned plum pudding for my Christmas dinner. Instead of that I'll get some kind a ragout and grapefruit salad. Hey!....Camera!
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Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin (April 16, 1889 - December 25, 1977)
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| Portrait by James Abbe, 1922 |
"Charlie Chaplin, the deathly shy, undersized, lower-class boy, born into a society that seemed to despise these things, dreamed he would overcome his handicaps, even preposterously dreamed he would go out and conquer the world. Put quite simply, he did. Jimmy the Fearless made his dreams his life." --John McCabe, Charlie Chaplin, 1978
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Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas. I hope you're enjoying it with friends, family, and maybe some good food.
Cheers!
Jess
Cheers!
Jess
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Fun with keywords
Occasionally I like to check out the keywords that bring people to my site because it helps me to take stock, especially at the end of the year, of how people find my blog & what Chaplin fans are looking for. Often they are legitimate queries such as "Charlie Chaplin Lita Grey" (one of the most popular search terms), "Charlie Chaplin height" or "Charlie Chaplin Mann Act" etc. Hopefully those folks found what they were looking for on my site. It's also heartwarming that the majority of the queries are people searching for my site by name. But after that, it's all downhill. Next we come to the pervert portion of the keyword analysis. These are folks who are looking for "Paulette Goddard nude" or "Charlie Chaplin bulge" or "Carlotta Monterey nude." I can take the blame for the first one since I posted photos of Paulette in the nude last year. However I have since take them down because I don't want weirdos salivating (or much worse) over those beautiful Alfred Cheney Johnston photos of Paulette on my site. They can look for them elsewhere. I also mention Charlie's bulge in one photo because, well, it's hard to miss. As far as a photos of Carlotta Monterey nude or Edna Purviance nude or, I'm not lying, Wednesday Addams nude, I'm sorry I can't help with any of those.
But the most soul-stabbing queries of all are the ones regarding those asinine non-Chaplin quotes that have been floating around on the internet for lo these many years. I'm fairly certain that every time someone posts one of these quotes on Twitter, Tumblr, or Facebook, and attributes them to Chaplin, a kitten dies. The only bright spot is that when someone is brought to my site via queries such as
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...they land on a page (here and here) where these wretched quotes are debunked. So hopefully I have done my good deed for the year if I have kept one person from posting that god-awful letter that Chaplin did not write about Geraldine and her naked soul.
Nevertheless no matter how people get to my site, I'm always grateful, especially to the ones who hang around & keep reading. I'll close with some of the queries, and there were many, that either gave me a giggle or left me scratching my head:
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But the most soul-stabbing queries of all are the ones regarding those asinine non-Chaplin quotes that have been floating around on the internet for lo these many years. I'm fairly certain that every time someone posts one of these quotes on Twitter, Tumblr, or Facebook, and attributes them to Chaplin, a kitten dies. The only bright spot is that when someone is brought to my site via queries such as
Nevertheless no matter how people get to my site, I'm always grateful, especially to the ones who hang around & keep reading. I'll close with some of the queries, and there were many, that either gave me a giggle or left me scratching my head:
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Charlie was impulsive, dominating, good-natured, & affectionate, at least according to his face
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| Picture Show, January 10, 1920 |
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Chaplin with wrestler/stuntman/actor Al Baffert on the boxing set of CITY LIGHTS
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c.mid-1920s
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RIP Lita Grey Chaplin (December 29, 1995)
Lita died of cancer at the Motion Picture & Television Country House. She was 87 & the last surviving wife of Chaplin.
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| Lita in New York City following her divorce from Chaplin, September 1927 |
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A gathering at the Mocambo club following the premiere of The Pride Of The Yankees, 1942
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| L-R: Tim Durant, Luise Rainer, CC, Charlie, Jr |
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New Year's Eve, 1948
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Charlie's New Year's Eve "stag affair," 1917
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| Exhibitor's Herald, January 19, 1918 |
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"Auld Lang Syne"
In his autobiography, Chaplin wrote that certain songs created the mood for his films. For The Immigrant it was an old song called “Mrs. Grundy," for Twenty Minutes Of Love, a popular two-step called "Two Much Mustard," Jose Padilla's "La Violatera" set the mood for City Lights, and lastly, for The Gold Rush, the mood was created with "Auld Lang Syne," which Charlie hears the revelers singing during this poignant scene in the film.
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Here's to a happy and peaceful 2015! Thanks for your continued support. It's been a fun year.
Love,
Jess
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Love,
Jess
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| Pittsburgh Press, December 31, 1916 |
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It's the first day of the year and I'm in a good mood so I thought I would share a little video that I made a few years ago when I first got into Chaplin. I haven't shared this since I had my Tumblr blog way back when. It's pretty amateurish and the quality of some of the clips is lacking but I was hoping that most of you might be hungover anyway and not notice how bad it is. If you aren't hungover, please be kind and realize that we all do crazy things like this when we're young (ahem).
I hope everyone is having a nice holiday.
Music: "Come A Little Bit Closer" by Fleetwood Mac (Heroes Are Hard To Find, 1974)
I hope everyone is having a nice holiday.
Music: "Come A Little Bit Closer" by Fleetwood Mac (Heroes Are Hard To Find, 1974)
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Charlie cuts a rug with Geraldine at the premiere party for A COUNTESS FROM HONG KONG, January 1967
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Once more with feeling...
Stealing thoughts, ideas, or any content from this blog, or any other Chaplin blog, and posting it on your own blog without credit is called plagiarism. This isn't just happening to me, but to other bloggers who work hard to come up with their own content. In the time it takes to post yet another picture, certain people could look over their posts and make sure the content is original, add a link back, or mention a source. This isn't hard. But sadly, the Chaplin social media scene has become a popularity contest. It's all about how many likes/shares/and followers you can get and less about the subject. How sad.
Stealing thoughts, ideas, or any content from this blog, or any other Chaplin blog, and posting it on your own blog without credit is called plagiarism. This isn't just happening to me, but to other bloggers who work hard to come up with their own content. In the time it takes to post yet another picture, certain people could look over their posts and make sure the content is original, add a link back, or mention a source. This isn't hard. But sadly, the Chaplin social media scene has become a popularity contest. It's all about how many likes/shares/and followers you can get and less about the subject. How sad.
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Tennis match, February 1939
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| L-R: Betty Chaplin (later Tetrick), CC, Paulette, Syd Chaplin, tennis star Don Budge. |
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