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CITY LIGHTS set visit
Charlie is at far right. Other familiar faces include: Henry Bergman (far left, in the back), Virginia Cherrill, Douglas Fairbanks, & Toraichi Kono (behind Doug). That might be Alf Reeves behind...
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Rehearsing the tightrope scene in THE CIRCUS
These scenes were filmed high up in the circus tent with Chaplin suspended only a few feet above a wooden platform which is out of camera range. Assistant director Harry Crocker, who also portrays...
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Charlie & Paulette with King Vidor, his wife, Betty Hill, and stepson,...
The identity of the boy is just a guess. He doesn't look like either of Charlie's sons. Vidor himself only had daughters but his third wife, Betty, had a son by a previous marriage. If this is Robert,...
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ONE A.M., released August 7th, 1916
Except for a brief appearance at the beginning by Albert Austin, this film features Chaplin in a solo performance, which he later called “a pure exercise in mime & technical virtuosity"1...
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Throwback Thursday
Here's a musical post from 2012. I should post more Chaplin music.Go to the link to hear the song.http://discoveringchaplin.blogspot.com/2012/11/love-theme-from-modern-times.html
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A Comedian In New York (1925): Charlie at the Ritz-Carlton
Taken August 4th, 1925On the phone in suite #6251:New York Times, Aug. 9, 1925On the rooftop:With Gloria SwansonChaplin and publicist Eddie Manson.See other rooftop photos here and here.Coming up in...
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Charlie does his favorite joke where he turns his hat and poses as Napoleon--a bit he was still doing as an old man.
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THE BANK, released 99 years ago today
The dream sequence in The Bank was borrowed from the Fred Karno sketch “Jimmy The Fearless” in which Chaplin starred as Jimmy, a working-class boy who becomes a hero in his dreams."You can see Jimmy...
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THE FACE ON THE BARROOM FLOOR, released August 10th, 1914
Chaplin burlesques the poem "The Face Upon The Floor" by Hugh Antoine d'Arcy & uses several lines from the poem as title cards. The film's flashback storytelling technique is unusual for Chaplin...
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24 hours of Chaplin on TCM (USA) beginning Thursday at 6:00am EST
The tribute will include the U.S. premiere of a new French documentary by Serge Bromberg and Eric Lange called The Birth Of The Tramp at 8:00pm (EST). See the full schedule here:...
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Chaplin with actress & longtime scenarist for Cecil B. DeMille, Jeanie...
MacPherson was also one of the first licensed female pilots in the late 1910s. She was known for her barnstorming stunts.Picture-Play, September 1917
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Random Snippet
New York Times, April 25th, 1929According to a Dec. 1929 Screenland article by Rob Wagner, before Charlie began having his hair professionally dyed, he applied a "daily smearing of mascara" to cover up...
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At the beach, c.1922
Front row: Claire Windsor, Lila Lee, Ruth WightmanBack row: CC, Sam Goldwyn, Gouverneur MorrisBoth Claire Windsor and Lila Lee were linked romantically with Chaplin in the early 1920s
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A Comedian in New York (1925): Who bit Charlie's lip?
Here's Variety's version the lip-biting incident:Previous to the opening of "The Gold Rush" Chaplin got a flood of publicity in New York without the assistance of a press agent. It was suspected the p....
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Lita Grey Chaplin in Seasoned Greetings (1933) (in its entirety)
I posted a clip from this short a couple of weeks ago but it looks like someone has added the whole thing to youtube since then, so enjoy.
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