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Della Steele
Filming The Circus. Merna Kennedy is standing at center with Harry Crocker (tall man with hat), Toraichi Kono (behind Crocker) & Henry Bergman behind the camera. Seated in front of Bergman is Della...
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Della Steele (left) & Kathleen Pryor at the Chaplin Studio gate
Thanks to Dominique Dugros for this lovely photo.Pryor was also a secretary with the studio. The above photo accompanies the following article from the Los Angeles Times dated January 15, 1927:Note:...
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World Tour Revisited: "Charlie Chaplin Not Hurt By Motor Crash"
Boston Globe, August 8, 1931Charlie was no stranger to car accidents. In 1936, he and Paulette were involved in a crash on Hollywood Boulevard. Charlie's Japanese chauffeur stopped at a crosswalk to...
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"Charlie Chaplin Remembered"
Portrait by Nishiyama, New York, c. 1925In honor of Louise Brooks' passing 28 years ago today, here is her 1966 essay about Chaplin in its entirety:"Charlie Chaplin Remembered" by Louise BrooksWhen...
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THE BANK, released 98 years ago today
Screenshots from Charlie Chaplin: Short Comedy Classics (Image Entertainment)
View ArticleChaplin conducts the Abe Lyman Orchestra
As a publicity stunt in 1925, Charlie guest conducted the Abe Lyman Orchestra for a gramophone recording of two of his own original compositions: “Sing A Song” & “With You Dear, In Bombay." The...
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World Tour Revisited: "Charlot At A Bullfight"
Illustration from "A Comedian Sees The World," A Woman's Home Companion, 1933.Drawing by Robert Gellert.On August 9th, 1931, Charlie, May Reeves & Harry d'Arrast motored from Biarritz to San...
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Did Charlie work as an extra in the 1928 film The Woman Disputed?
Washington Post, Nov. 24th, 1928The IMDB website had another version of the story:Charles Chaplin visited the set one day and was asked by assistant director Robert Florey to play a practical joke on...
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THE FACE ON THE BARROOM FLOOR, released August 10th, 1914
Chaplin burlesques the poem "The Face Upon The Floor" by Hugh Antoine d'Arcy & uses several lines from the poem as title cards. The film's flashback storytelling technique is unusual for Chaplin...
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Lou Costello & Charlie, 1942
According to the book Abbott and Costello In Hollywood by Bob Furmanek & Ron Palumbo:Who Done It? [a 1942 Abbott and Costello film] was supposed to be dedicated to Lou's idol, Charlie Chaplin....
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With a visitor on the set of A DOG'S LIFE, 1918
Photo is signed by photographer Albert Witzel.
View Article“Rhythm”
This short story, written by Chaplin, first appeared in Rob Wagner’s Script magazine in January, 1938:Rhythm : A Story Of Men In Macabre Movementby Charles ChaplinOnly the dawn moved in the stillness...
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RECREATION, released August 13th, 1914
screenshots from Chaplin At Keystone (Flicker Alley)
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Hollywood party at Max Linder's
From Cinéa magazine, 1922The names of Gouverneur Morris & his wife Ruth Wightman are misspelled in the caption.
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Charlie with Canadian soldier Harold Peat & his wife, 1918
In 1917, Peat wrote a book called "Private Peat" about his experience as a soldier in WWI. The next year, Peat starred as himself in a film based on the book.
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