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Charlie's Real Life Story
In January 1927, Chaplin filed a suit against Pictorial Review magazine to halt the publication of a series of articles by his former publicist, Jim Tully, aka the "hobo author." His complaint asserted...
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An evening of silents on TCM tonight
Arbuckle, Chaplin, Lloyd, Laurel & Hardy, etc. See the full schedule here.Chaplin's The Immigrant (1917) will be on at 9:30PM (EST) and The Gold Rush (1925) at 10:00. I'm not sure if they are...
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Chaplin on the set of THE GREAT DICTATOR
Next to Charlie is (I think) studio secretary Catherine Hunter.
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Chaplin Sees The World blog
Please check out (& bookmark) Lisa Stein Haven's new blog about the upcoming publication of "A Comedian Sees The World."http://chaplinseestheworld.blogspot.com/
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Charlie vs. "The Rookie"
Evening News (Harrisburg, PA) May 12, 1927In 1927, a disinfectant salesman named Leo Loeb sued Chaplin for $50,000 claiming that the idea for Shoulder Arms was lifted from a scenario he wrote in 1918...
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Chaplin and his attorney, Nathan Burkan, New York City, January 14, 1927
Note that Charlie is sitting on one foot--a way he liked to sit according to interviewers and those close to him."Sometimes he would sit, one foot tucked under him, slashing at the leather cushion with...
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Still shots of Chaplin in costume as the wealthy prince the blind girl...
Click here to see footage of Chaplin in a costume test as the dream prince.
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Louise Brooks in Pandora's Box tonight on TCM (USA)
http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/323018/Pandora-s-Box/
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Chaplin with photographer James Abbe, in and out of costume, 1922
"When I have photographed Charlie Chaplin in character his mustache has fitted his role. When I have asked Charlie to remove his mustache and be himself he has readily acquiesced, revealing Charlie the...
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Charlie & May Reeves, French Riviera, Summer 1931
I'm not sure of the identity of the fellow on the left (he looks a little like Frank J. Gould, Chaplin's host during the first part of his stay on the Riviera) nor the woman on the right, but the man...
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Lita's got to sing a torch song
Here's Lita Grey Chaplin, five years after her divorce from Charlie, singing "I've Got To Sing A Torch Song" in the Vitaphone short Seasoned Greetings (1933). There is also a small part with her...
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Throwback Thursday
My inaugural post on Discovering Chaplin from two years ago this month.http://discoveringchaplin.blogspot.com/2012/07/photo-of-chaplin-by-hartsook-c.html
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Chicago, August 1, 1925
Chaplin literally skidded into Chicago when he tripped and fell as he stepped off the train at Dearborn Station. He arrived from California en route to New York for the premiere of The Gold Rush....
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With Dawn Addams in A King In New York (1957)
"Break through" was his favorite instruction....Another thing he taught me was not to nod my head when I was acting. This infuriated him. "Remember to be definite," he said, "moving your head is...
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A Comedian In New York (1925)
Note: This is the first post in a "mini-series" that I will be doing about Charlie's visit to New York in 1925. If you've followed this blog for any amount of time you know that I enjoy schlepping...
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