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Pictures & Picturegoer, 1918
Photo taken at the White Studio in NYC, c. 1910-11.Charlie is No. 11?!
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4/4/44: Charlie is acquitted of all charges in the Mann Act case
After the verdict was announced, Charlie was overheard saying, "I believe in justice. I have an abiding faith in the American people." Oona Chaplin, who was pregnant at the time (with Geraldine),...
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RIP Roger Ebert
Below is a piece that Mr. Ebert wrote shortly after Charlie's death in 1977.Look, there's Charlie Chaplin!December 26th, 1977Let me tell you two stories about Charles Chaplin, who died on Christmas...
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Charlie & Paulette at a preview of King Vidor's STELLA DALLAS (one of my...
Hollywood magazine, Oct. 1937
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Gracie Mansion, New York City, April 6th, 1972.
Mayor John Lindsay presents Charlie with the keys to the city as well as the Handel Medallion, the city's highest award for the performing arts. Lindsay called Charlie "a great citizen of the world."...
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Ad for Chaplin-Mutual Specials, 1918
Moving Picture World, Feb. 1918. Photo by Hartsook.
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THE TRAMP, released April 11th, 1915
This film incorporates, for the first time in a Chaplin film, the classic fade-out ending in which the Tramp shuffles off down a lonely road as the iris closes behind him.This film was released the day...
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Charlie the fisherman
A couple more photos of Charlie with tuna he caught off Catalina Island. I believe that's his friend, Edward Knoblock posing with his own fish in the top photo and holding the other fin in the bottom...
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Monsieur Verdoux press conference, Gotham Hotel, NYC, April 12th, 1947
Held the day the after the disastrous premiere of Monsier Verdoux in NYC (where members of the audience booed and hissed at the screen), this press conference was described by George Wallach, who...
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Catch Paulette Goddard in SO PROUDLY WE HAIL (1943) on TCM (USA) tonight at...
Paulette was nominated for an Academy Award for her portrayal of U.S. Army nurse Lt. Joan O'Doul.
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If you visit this blog on a regular basis, you've probably noticed that I haven't been posting much lately. Unfortunately, that's going to be the case for the next 6 weeks. My husband and I are...
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A DOG'S LIFE, released April 14th, 1918
This was Chaplin's first "Million Dollar Comedy" for First National, as well as the first film he made in his newly-built studio on La Brea in Hollywood."Scraps," also called Mut (or Mutt), was...
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World Tour Revisited: Charlie arrives in Algeria from Nice, April 15th, 1931
The caption reads: Charlot arrives in AlgiersThere is something romantic about the name Algeria. It stimulates my imagination. I can visualize wild Saracenic tribes adorned in flowing colored togas.I...
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