THE VAGABOND, released July 10th, 1916
This was Chaplin's third film for Mutual. It is also one of my personal favorites. Legend has it that Chaplin filmed a different ending to the film in which he commits suicide by throwing himself into...
View ArticleCharlie and Oona at the Mocambo nightclub, July 1943
This was their first public appearance following their marriage. Notice her hand on his leg.
View ArticleWith boxer Benny Leonard, 1918
Footage of Charlie "boxing" Leonard can be seen here.Photo from The Search For Charlie Chaplin (Brownlow)
View ArticleWorld Tour Revisited: CITY LIGHTS premiere in Antibes, Summer 1931
Charlie & Raquel Meller are on the left. May Reeves is on the right. Raquel Meller performed "La Violetera" as part of the opening program. May Reeves recalls the event: "During our stay at...
View ArticleA WOMAN (1915)
Released 98 years ago today, this was Chaplin's tenth film for Essanay and the third film in which he donned women's clothing (the other two were A Busy Day & The Masquerader at Keystone.)  This...
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From Great Companions by Max Eastman (1942):One day, after he had had time to get tired of the social maelstrom that followed the premiere of The Great Dictator, I sent Charlie a telegram at the...
View Article"Outtake" from How To Make Movies (1918)
From The Kid/A Dog's Life, Image Entertainment, special feature about the construction of the Chaplin Studios.I don’t believe this very short clip is included in the version of the unreleased film that...
View ArticleWith Jean de Limur & Robert Florey, his collaborators on A Woman Of Paris, c....
Charlie is dressed in his clerical costume from The Pilgrim. All three seem to be posing with their right foot pointed out.
View ArticleCharlie shakes hands with five-year-old Anderson Cooper (future CNN anchor),...
Anderson's mother, Gloria Vanderbilt, was a lifelong friend of Oona Chaplin.
View ArticleWith Oona at a tennis match, c.1945
This nice photo of Charlie and Oona is currently up for auction on eBay.
View ArticleHappy Anniversary
Today marks the one year anniversary of "Discovering Chaplin." Not long before I started this blog, I had closed down my "Chaplin In Pictures" tumblr and was wanting to start over elsewhere--preferably...
View ArticleCharlie with wrestler Nick Lutze
This photo may have been taken on the same day as the one below of Charlie & Thelma Todd (Hal Roach & Mervyn Leroy are the other two men in the photo):
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