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Autographed photo of Chaplin with composer Arnold Schoenberg, c.1935
Photo by Max Munn Autrey.Click here to read David Raksin's description of the meeting between Chaplin and Schoenberg which was evidently a bit awkward.
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"Charlie Takes The Air: The Screen Comedian Describes His First Experiences"By Elsie CoddPhotos and text from Picture Show, March 27th, 1920:One of the most delightful things about Charlie Chaplin is...
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Chaplin & Will Hays at a Hollywood gathering, 1932
Hays was president of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America & namesake of the Hays censorship code. When he arrived in Hollywood in March 1922, the streets were decorated with...
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Charlie's mother, Hannah Chaplin
"Showing some pictures one day to a friend, Chaplin came to one, a woman's portrait, at which he gazed for a time with loving, tender eyes. 'My mother!' he then said simply. 'To her I owe everything...
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Going for a swim, French Riviera, 1956
From "Charlie On Holiday,"Picture Post, September 1956
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Chaplin and fellow Fred Karno troupe member, Billie Reeves, c.1918
Reeves was the brother of Alfred Reeves, Chaplin's studio manager. He also originated the role of the drunken swell in Karno's Mumming Birds sketch--a role that was later played by Sydney Chaplin and...
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World Tour Revisited: Charlie arrives at his final destination: Japan, May...
Japan, the adopted land of Lafcadio Hearn, had always stirred my imagination--the land of cherry blossoms, the chrysanthemum, and its people in silk kimonos, living among porcelains and lacquer...
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World Tour Revisited: The Prime Minister of Japan is assassinated while...
The morning after their arrival in Tokyo, Syd excitedly came into Charlie's room and told him that his "bags had been searched and all of his papers disturbed." Charlie accused him of being overly...
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Charlie, his second wife, Lita, and British novelist Elinor Glyn, October 1925
Both Charlie and Lita describe a story in their memoirs about a roadtrip to Mexico they took with William Randolph Hearst around late 1925 when Lita was pregnant with their second son, Sydney. About...
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Charlie poses with a group of little people on the set of SHOULDER ARMS, 1918
Edna Purviance is next to Charlie in the top photo.
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En route to Hawaii, 1917
Accompanying Charlie on the voyage was his friend, Rob Wagner (far left in top photo, 2nd from left in bottom photo) & Edna Purviance, who is not pictured. The man wearing the bowtie is Goldwyn...
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WORK (1915)
I spent the day removing wallpaper. I had much better luck than Charlie and his pals (who were putting it up).
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