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Chaplin behind the camera on the set of SUNNYSIDE, 1919
Cameraman Rollie Totheroh is on the right. Tom Wilson, who plays Charlie's boss, is on the left.
View ArticleTHE SALVATION HUNTERS (1925)
Here's a chance to see one of Chaplin's favorite films, Josef Von Sternberg's The Salvation Hunters. This was the film that brought Georgia Hale to the attention of Chaplin, who hired her to replace...
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Chaplin pleads not guilty to Mann Act charges, February 26th, 1944
Chaplin's attorney, Jerry Giesler, failed in two attempts to have the charges thrown out. First, he filed a demurrer to the indictment which stated that the law was intended only to prevent...
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THE PILGRIM, released February 26th, 1923
This was Chaplin's last film for First National and as per usual it has an "escape-from-prison" theme (see The Adventurer, his last film for Mutual, and Police, his last film for Essanay.)"May be...
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Photo from French film magazine, 1921
Cinemagazine, Dec. 1921"Le Sourire De M. Chaplin" = "The Smile of Mr. Chaplin"
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Charlie at home, c. 1947
Charlie is writing with natural left-hand, although he normally wrote with his right. In his day, left-handed children were forced to write with their right hands and because of this Charlie was...
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Charlie with his first wife, Mildred, and others at the Syd Chaplin Airfield,...
L-R: Marjorie Daw, Mary Pickford, Mildred Harris, CC, Douglas Fairbanks
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BETWEEN SHOWERS, released 100 years ago today
Chaplin's fourth film for Keystone would mark the last time he would work with director Henry Lehrman with whom he did not get along. It was also Chaplin's first "park" comedy (portions were filmed at...
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Charlie & Paulette at the Hollywood premiere of MODERN TIMES, Grauman's...
L-R: Constance Collier, Paulette, her mother Alta, CC
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Chaplin film montage from 1972 Academy Awards ceremony
This montage is slightly different and perhaps a bit longer than the one seen at the end of the 1992 Chaplin film. It was put together by Peter Bogdanovich & Richard Patterson (who directed the...
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Tennis match, Pickford-Fairbanks Studio, August 1923
L-R: Bill Tilden, CC, a very tan Douglas Fairbanks, and Manuel Alonso
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Sir Charlie
After twenty years of being denied knighthood because of his political views and scandalous sex life, Chaplin was finally given the honor in an investiture ceremony at Buckingham Palace on March 4th,...
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Hollywood party for Max Linder's birthday, c. 1919
L-R: Bessie Love, Linder, Ruth Wightman, Patsy Ruth Miller.Back: Georges Jomier, Barbara Bedford, John Gilbert, Leatrice Joy, CC, Gouverneur Morris, Gaston Glass.
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World Tour Revisited: Charlie returns to Italy--"Oy, oy!"
Sometime during their three-month stay in St. Moritz, Switzerland, May Reeves told Charlie she was pregnant. Whether this was a real pregnancy, a false alarm, or an entrapment ploy, we will never know....
View ArticleWorld Tour Revisited: Chaplin talks into a sound camera, Rome, March 5th, 1932
Below is footage of Charlie and his brother, Sydney at the Exselsior Hotel in Rome. At the end of the video, Charlie faces the camera and says, "Mucho grazie" (although it sounds like"grazio")...
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World Tour Revisited: Chaplin bids farewell to May Reeves and embarks for...
Charlie, May, and Syd in Naples, March 6th, 1932. Boris Evelinoff, European representative for United Artists, is standing (I think)behind Charlie to his right. May was left in the care of Evelinoff...
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