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Composite photograph of Chaplin, Upton Sinclair (left) & Egon Erwin Kisch, 1929From "Working With Charlie Chaplin" by Egon Erwin Kisch:1"Chaplin? We can stop in on him on the way, if you'd like."...
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Charlie meets the press following his nervous breakdown in New York, January...
Shortly after Chaplin arrived in New York City on January 14th, he suffered a nervous breakdown in the apartment of his attorney, Nathan Burkan. His secretary, Toraichi Kono, told cameraman Rollie...
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Charlie dressed as the Tramp eating ice cream
I have always wondered about these photos. I have no idea when or why they were taken. Given Charlie's appearance, I would date them circa mid-1920s, possibly around the time of The Circus.
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The Slapstick Festival in Bristol, UK begins today featuring 100 years of...
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Pickfair home movie, 1929
From the documentary Unknown Chaplin (1983), narrated by James Mason. Charlie is supposedly wearing one of Mary Pickford's dresses from Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm. The film also pinpoints the origin of...
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Charlie, Marion Davies, and others at the Hearst Ranch, San Simeon, CA, 1933
Photo by Martin Munkasci.
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"The Big Three" in Philadelphia during the Third Liberty Loan drive, 1918
Photoplay, July 1918
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Filmed January 15th-26th, 1914, Chaplin's long-lost short, A THIEF CATCHER
This ten-minute short was only the third film Chaplin made for Keystone, but he had already adopted his Tramp mustache & makeup. Released February 19th, 1914, A Thief Catcher was considered lost...
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Chaplin with a Mrs. Marshall at the Arrowhead Springs Hotel, 1916
Mrs. Marshall was probably the wife of the hotel's owner, Seth Marshall. This hotel may have been where Chaplin filmed the outdoor shots of Miss Moneybags' house in The Count.
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Cover of Picture Show, October 20th, 1928
Charlie's "loves" are (top-bottom): Mildred Harris, Edna Purviance, Merna Kennedy, Lila Lee (I think), Claire Windsor (I think), and Lita Grey.
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Charlie is presented with a new pet, a Siberian bear cub, May 1943
Chaplin was presented with the bear cub, marked with a white "V", by Captain Mihail Katzel (right), skipper of a Russian tanker, when he visited Charlie to enlist his endorsement of the national "Write...
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Chaplin with novelist Peter B. Kyne and his son, 1919
Kyne's son, Marcel Dupuis-Kyne, was a French orphan whom he brought back to the States after the war and adopted. Marcel said to his father after his visit to the Chaplin Studios: "Father, you have...
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THE CENTENARY OF THE LITTLE TRAMP - Tuesday, February 4th, 6:20 pm, BFI...
via the Charlie Chaplin Official Facebook page:This is the launch of David Robinson's fabulous new book on Charlie Chaplin, THE WORLD OF LIMELIGHT, published by the Cineteca di Bologna. David Robinson...
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Charlie entertains his friend, writer and critic Maurice Bessy, at his home...
Chaplin included a couple of “in jokes” regarding Bessy in Monsieur Verdoux (1947):A real estate sign in front of Mr. Varnay’s house says “M. BESSY”. His name also appears in one of the newspapers...
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Hollywood premiere of CITY LIGHTS, January 30th, 1931
City Lights premiered at the Los Angeles Theater on January 30th, 1931. Charlie's guests that evening were Albert Einstein and his wife, Elsa. Charlie recalled that the professor "laughed like a boy"...
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