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Accidents will happen
During the filming of this scene in The Great Dictator (1940), Charlie's left hand was caught in the slamming gate, breaking his middle finger.Leading lady (and Mrs. Chaplin) Paulette Goddard quickly...
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Mildred Harris ((November 29, 1901 – July 20, 1944)
Mildred was Charlie's first wife and the mother of his first-born child, Norman Spencer Chaplin (aka "The Little Mouse") who died three days after his birth. Charlie and Mildred were married two years...
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Charlie skates blindfolded near the edge of a drop-off in Modern Times (1936)
This stunt was achieved using a visual effect technique called a “glass matte" shot. The drop-off to the department store’s lower floors was painted on a pane of glass, placed in front of the camera...
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Portion of the original dialogue script for Modern Times
Source: Modern Times: Chaplin Project N. 2
View ArticleCharlie vs. Groucho
This is footage of a doubles tennis match held on July 13th, 1937 to celebrate the opening of the Beverly Hills Tennis Club. The game pitted Charlie Chaplin & Fred Perry against Groucho Marx &...
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Chaplin with visitors on the set of The Kid, 1920
The top photo is more commonly seen cropped, showing just Charlie. There is also a cropped version of the bottom photo in the Maurice Bessy book (pg. 62).Charlie's guest is a man named Morris Greenhill...
View Article"The Ideal Woman" --according to Charlie
In 1926, Vanity Fair magazine asked several famous men to list the attributes of the "ideal woman." Charlie was one of them. They were probably unaware that this was the worst possible time to broach...
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Reading Cinémonde, 1946
The issue Charlie is reading (below) is dated April 16th, 1946 (his 57th birthday). Note Charlie's (real) mustache for Monsieur Verdoux.
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Charlie christens a boat called the Nomad before its trip around the world,...
His constant companion at the time, Georgia Hale, is standing behind him. Charlie’s graying hair has been dyed black for the filming of City Lights.
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Peter Sellers (September 8, 1925 – July 24, 1980
Charlie was a fan of Sellers, who was briefly considered for the role of Hudson in A Countess From Hong Kong. During an interview with Francis Wyndham in 1964, Charlie said he hated most American films...
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Charlie (far left) with Fred Karno’s London Comedians, Spokane, WA, c. 1910
Albert Austin is standing at far right.
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