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Chaplin’s Very First Scene – Now a Jack-in-the-Box
"Assuming they shot Making a Living in sequential order, this marks the very first scene of Chaplin’s entire career. It also means that when the film opened on February 2, 1914, 100 years ago, it was...
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Charlie & Paulette at the premiere of GONE WITH THE WIND, 1939
Paulette was a top candidate for the role of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With The Wind (gossip columnist Louella Parsons had even started referring to her as "Scarlett O'Goddard.") In the early 1950s,...
View ArticleFootage of Charlie at Jack Pickford's wedding to Marilyn Miller, 1922
www.footage.framepool.comCharlie can be seen around the :30 mark clowning with Mary Pickford and pretending to put a ring on her finger. He can also be seen briefly at the beginning (I think he is the...
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Chaplin & Buster Keaton outside the Balboa Studios, 1918
From Buster Keaton: Cut To The Chase by Marion MeadeThis photo was taken on the same day as the more popular shots of Charlie and Buster seen...
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Charlie standing next to a horse, c. 1919
Possibly taken during the filming of Sunnyside.
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Chaplin's first appearance on film took place 100 years ago today, or did it?
Our first glimpse of Chaplin in Making A Living.Making A Living was released on February 2nd, 1914, but was it really Chaplin's first appearance before a camera?According to The Chaplin Encyclopedia by...
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Charlie & Doug being Charlie & Doug
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View ArticleUnpublished Chaplin Novella, "Footlights," to Be Released
This is terrific news!http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/02/03/unpublished-chaplin-novella-to-be-released/?_php=true&_type=blogs&smid=tw-share&_r=1
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Chaplin conducting the Abe Lyman Orchestra, 1925
Chaplin guest conducted the orchestra for a gramophone recording of two of his own original compositions: “Sing A Song” & “With You Dear, In Bombay."
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Could this be the newsreel footage of Charlie as a boy?
A fellow fan, Ashley, sent me a link to newsreel footage of the Gordon Highlanders, a Scottish regiment in the British Army, marching with a group of children in 1899. In my post on Sunday about Making...
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Syd Chaplin surrounded by models for his Sassy Jane clothing company line, c....
Source: www.sydchaplin.comThe Sassy Jane Manufacturing Company, incorporated in 1917, was the first but not the last of Syd's "boom-and-bust" business endeavors. The company was bankrupt by 1923.1The...
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United Artists, formed Feb. 5th, 1919
On this day 95 years ago, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, D.W. Griffith & Charlie Chaplin, seeking more artistic and financial control over the production and distribution of their films, founded...
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MODERN TIMES premieres in New York City, February 5th, 1936
Modern Times was not only Hollywood's last "silent" film (although the film had sound effects and Chaplin's voice is heard for the first time in a nonsense song at the end), but it also marked the...
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Random Excerpt: Chaplin on "The Kid"
From "The Marvelous Boy Of The Movies," by Charlie Chaplin, Vanity Fair, January 1921It was by pure accident that I met this remarkable child actor. He was with his parents in a Los Angeles hotel...
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