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Chicago, January 12th, 1927
Charlie was en route to New York to meet with his lawyer about his former press agent Jim Tully's Pictorial Review articles which he had tried (unsuccessfully) to keep from getting published. The day...
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Edna Purviance (October 21, 1895 - January 13, 1958)
Edna died of throat cancer1 at the Motion Picture Country Home 56 years ago today. She was 63. Her funeral was held at Forest Lawn Memorial Park, but she was interred at Grand View Cemetery in...
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"The Chaplin Coat Of Arms"
This sketch was drawn by Chaplin in 1935 when working on the score for Modern Times and presented to his musical assistant David Raksin.From "Life With Charlie Chaplin" by David Raksin, Quarterly...
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Chaplin & his eldest sons on the set of Monsieur Verdoux, c. 1946
Sydney is on the left, Charlie, Jr. on the right.Both boys had just returned from service in WWII.
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Charlie, Edna Purviance, & Emery Rogers, 1919
Rogers was vice president of the Syd Chaplin Aircraft Corporation which provided the first airline service between Los Angeles and Catalina Island. Edna was the honored guest at the inaugural flight in...
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Charlie at his studio swimming pool, c. 1926
Charlie is in the middle with dyed black hair (for The Circus).
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Thanks to "JustMe" for my little packet of goodies from the San Francisco Silent Film Festival last weekend. Sounds like a great time was had by all. I wish I could have been there. The program was...
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At a tennis match with Paulette, 1937
The big rock Paulette is wearing was supposedly a gift from Chaplin.
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Cary Grant greeting Chaplin in 1972
Grant first encountered Chaplin when he saw the Fred Karno troupe perform in England as a young boy. He was also briefly married to the blind girl from City Lights, Virginia Cherrill. In 1953, a few...
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Rare audio of Charlie delivering the final speech from The Great Dictator at...
Halfway through the speech Charlie’s throat gets dry & begins to crack (probably from nerves) and he pauses and asks for water. In his autobiography, Charlie recalled that a glass could not be...
View ArticleList of dates for live orchestral screenings of Chaplin films
http://cineconcert.charliechaplin.com/datesI can't believe there will be a screening of The Gold Rush in KY. I'm purchasing tickets now!Hopefully there will be one near you.
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