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Family photo, c. 1952
L-R: Geraldine, Oona (holding Victoria), Josephine, CC, & Michael, who is mimicked by his father.Photo by W. Eugene Smith for Life magazine ("Chaplin At Work," March 17, 1952)
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Twelve-year-old Lita Grey (then Lillita MacMurray) photographed as The Age Of...
"After the [screen] test [for The Kid] was completed. Rollie [Totheroh] had some still photographs taken, as well as a special photograph Charlie had requested. Following Charlie's instructions, I was...
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Autographed photo with sketch, 1944
The photo shows Chaplin after he was acquitted of the Mann Act charge.
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Dish Network president threatens to blackout TCM and Turner Networks "forever"
(This might be of interest to others like me who have been without TCM the last two weeks due to the dispute between Dish Network and Time Warner).Will McKinley sums up some recent comments by Dish...
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Seldom seen photo of Chaplin & violinist Jascha Heifetz on the set of THE...
At far right is Syd Chaplin. I believe the woman is Dagmar Godowsky (daughter of Leopold), who had been romantically involved with both Heifetz and Chaplin.Around the time of this visit with Chaplin,...
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His Musical Career hits a snag
Filming this scene held up traffic for hours on a busy L.A. street.Filming on location was the norm in the early silent days. But given its distractions, Charlie was often at odds with these...
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Charlie on a high-wheel bicycle, c. 1919
See Charlie and Sydney try, unsuccessfully, to ride it here.
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Happy 100th birthday, Norman Lloyd!
Costume test photos of Norman Lloyd as Bodalink in Limelight (1952)Lloyd met Chaplin sometime in the l940s through Tim Durant. He became a regular visitor to Chaplin's home, mostly due to their mutual...
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HIS TRYSTING PLACE*, released 100 years ago today
Written and directed by Charlie Chaplin.Mabel Normand is brilliant as the frazzled wife and mother."Here, play with this (a gun!)"Although this is not the first film to show Charlie with a wife,it is...
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From Hollywood On Parade (see another clip here)
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Happy birthday, Mabel (November 10, 1893)*
Chaplin on Mabel:The ‘he-man’ atmosphere of the studio would have been almost intolerable but for the pulchritudinous influence. Mabel Normand’s presence, of course, graced the studio with glamour. She...
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The eldest Chaplin boys during army induction and training
Charlie, Jr. at his army induction, 1943, (left) and during training at Camp Haan, CA, 1944Sydney at his induction (left) and at the Ordnance Training Center in Flora, MS, 1944View the enlistment...
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BEHIND THE SCREEN, released November 13th, 1916
Goliath, the stage hand, and his assistant, David.Charlie manages to carry a dozen chairs and a piano at once."Stage hands lunch hour." Charlie uses bellows to shield himself from Albert's smelly...
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Here is a compilation I put together of rare interview excerpts, probably from c. 1979, featuring Jackie Coogan, Lita Grey Chaplin, and Sydney Chaplin. These clips were extracted from the documentary...
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Random Excerpt
Journalist Sara Hamilton describes a day on the Chaplin lot during the filming of Modern Times:A Chaplin picture conference is something that defies description. When the picture situations (they are...
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