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A NIGHT OUT, released February 15th, 1915
Filmed in Niles, CA, this is the first film to feature Chaplin's long-time leading lady, Edna Purviance.Charlie's cane doubles as a toothpick. Chaplin with fellow drunk, Ben Turpin, and Leo White (the...
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Chaplin through the years
Illustrated magazine, September 20th, 1952Most of these dates are a little off. The photo from 1918 was actually taken c. 1910-11 & the photo from 1926 is really 1921. I think 1947 is actually...
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Groundbreaking ceremony for Grauman's Chinese Theater, January 1926
L-R: Grauman, CC, Norma Talmadge, Conrad Nagel, Anna May Wong. source
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Liberty Loan rally, 1918
It's Presidents' Day here in the U.S. I hope some of you are enjoying a day off.In the photo below, Charlie is kneeling with Marie Dressler in the front row. Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks are...
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Chaplin’s “City Lights” and Symphony Orchestra featured at Catalina Island...
Via Gail Fornasiere, Director of Marketing & Public Relations at the Catalina Island Museum:Chaplin’s “City Lights” and Symphony Orchestra featured at Catalina Island Museum’s Silent Film...
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Charlie greets the press & newsreel cameras aboard the Mauretania in...
After Chaplin finished City Lights, he decided to take a brief European vacation to promote the film. He had not set foot in England, his native country, in nearly ten years. Although, he had initially...
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Chaplin watches a Circle Theater performance of The Doctor In Spite Of Himself
Charlie was closely associated with the Circle Theater in the late 1940s—directing plays (without credit) and allowing access to props from his movies. Charlie’s son, Sydney, was one of its founding...
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Chaplin rehearses a scene for THE GREAT DICTATOR
Source: Syd Chaplin: A Biography by Lisa K. SteinSydney Chaplin is standing at far right. Sydney, who had been absent from Hollywood since 1927, came to work for Charlie on the set of The Great...
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Chaplin ultimately discarded this idea for the film.
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A game of "Dougledyas" at the Fairbanks Studio, 1923
Dougledyas, or simply, Doug, was a game that was invented by Douglas Fairbanks. The rules were similar to tennis but six could play instead of four and a shuttlecock was used instead of a ball.Front:...
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Chaplin & Napoleon
Chaplin in costume as Napoleon, c.1930Chaplin had a life-long fascination with Napoleon Bonaparte and for many years considered making a...
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Charlie & German director, Ernst Lubitsch, 1923
Lubitsch had just seen a rough cut of A Woman Of Paris, which he hailed as “a great step forward…a picture that left something to the imagination.” Some believe that Lubitsch's next film, The Marriage...
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Charlie and Edna with visitors on the set of THE CURE, 1917
Charlie is in costume as a bellhop, the character he had originally intended to play before switching to the drunk. Eric Campbell is standing behind the fellow shaking Charlie's hand.
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