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Chaplin &"Dinky" Dean Reisner, c. 1922
More photos with Dinky at Chaplin's home here. Reisner describes this photo shoot (+ more photos) here.
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Gloria Swanson, Chaplin, Marion Davies, and Harry Crocker, at a party for...
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Trading cards issued by Eduardo Pi Chocolates, Barcelona, Spain, c.1920s
Los "Ases" De La Pantalla = The Aces Of The Screen
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Charlie & Oona aboard the Queen Elizabeth heading to England, September 19, 1952
L-R: Pianist Arthur Rubinstein, lyricist/playwright Adolph Green, Aniela Rubinstein, CC, OonaL-R: CC, Harry Crocker (who was traveling with the Chaplins), Adolph Green, OonaCharlie, Oona, and their...
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Throwback Thursday
In this post from my "World Tour Revisited" series, Chaplin attends a bullfight in San Sebastian, Spain. This piece has been updated with a new tidbit I uncovered recently (i.e. Harry d'Arrast's...
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Chaplin signs the car of world automobile tourist, Nell Wanderwell, 1923
Photo property of Roy Export SAS/photo.charliechaplin.com
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Chaplin by the M. Lambert Studio, Nice, France, 1931
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Colorized photos from ILLUSTRATED magazine, September 20th, 1952
The photographer, Antony Beauchamp (son-in-law of Winston Churchill), recalled that Chaplin's secretary tried to cancel this sitting the day before. Beauchamp replied with a telegram stating that he...
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Chaplin in a scene from the Fred Karno sketch, "A Night In An English Music...
Winnipeg Tribune, March 2nd, 1912Amy Minister was the wife of Alf Reeves, who managed Karno's American company and eventually became Chaplin's studio manager.
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In bookstores this Thursday (Sept. 25)...
French edition of Chaplin's 1933 travelogue, A Comedian Sees the World (Mon tour du monde), published by Les Editions du Sonneur.Pre-order it now on Amazon.The English edition is due November 28th....
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This little clip is part of the French documentary La Naissance de Charlot that is included in the new Flicker Alley Mutuals set & is supposed to be an outtake of Chaplin bouncing on a trampoline....
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THE NEW JANITOR, released September 24th, 1914
According to Chaplin, this film convinced him that he could evoke tears as well as laughter. He recalled in his autobiography that "an old actress," Alice Davenport, (he mistakenly remembered her as...
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THE IDLE CLASS, released September 25th, 1921
"An absent-minded husband"In his autobiography, Chaplin mentions having a "slight accident" with the blowtorch in this scene. "The heat of it went through my asbestos pants, so we added another layer...
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Chaplin conducting a band, c.1915
This footage may have been shot around the time of the Essanay film, The Tramp, which was filmed in Niles, CA & released in April 1915. Chaplin appears to be wearing the same costume he wore in the...
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With Oona on their yacht, probably at Catalina Island
Charlie is shielding his nose from the sun.RIP Oona (May 14, 1925 - September 27, 1991)<Photo by Jerry Epstein
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