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100 years ago this week: Chaplin begins work at the Essanay Studio in Niles,...
Los Angeles Times, January 20th, 1915100 years ago this week, Chaplin, along with his stock company, arrived at the Essanay studio in Niles, CA, a small town southeast of San Francisco. After making...
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Chaplin, John Barrymore, & Douglas Fairbanks clowning on the set of...
Barrymore considered Chaplin a great artist & one of the best actors in Hollywood. He told Alma Whitaker in 1925: “The genius of Chaplin is like an iceberg—you only see what’s above water, but you...
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Dr. Charlie Chaplin
In June 1962, Charlie received an honorary Doctor of Letters from Oxford University. Hugh Trevor-Roper, a distinguished historian and Oxford don, was horrified by the idea. He stated publicly that...
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Rare photos of Chaplin in Nice, March 31st, 1931
Chaplin is seen here on the day of his arrival in Nice during his 1931 world tour. He had just been reunited with his brother, Syd, who had been living there for the last several months. These photos...
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RIP Jack Oakie (January 23, 1978)
Oakie and Chaplin on the set of The Great Dictator.Oakie describes below being approached for a role in The Great Dictator by Syd Chaplin when both men were returning to America from Europe aboard the...
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On Joseph Schenck's yacht, Invader, August 1933.
The woman is Alva Green, wife of comedian Harry Green.See other photos taken the same day here.
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Chaplin with members of the Shochiku Cinema Company, 1925
CC is second from left. At far right are Toraichi Kono and Harry d'ArrastSee another photo here.From the book Charles Chaplin In Japan by Ono Hiroyuki
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Footage of Winston Churchill's visit to the set of CITY LIGHTS, September 1929
A week or so after his visit with Chaplin, Mr. Churchill wrote to his wife Clementine:Â "We made gt friends with Charlie Chaplin. You cd not help liking him. The boys were fascinated by him. He is a...
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Charlie & Paulette entertain newlyweds Alistair Cooke and his wife, Ruth, at...
Property of Roy Export SASChaplin was supposed to be best man at Cooke’s wedding in 1934, but failed to show up the day of the nuptials. Alistair Cooke's biographer, Nigel Clarke, contends that...
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Footage from the Hollywood premiere of THE CIRCUS at Grauman's Chinese...
Charlie appears around the :50 mark with his guests Ambassador Moore & Will Hays. Harry Crocker and Charlie's press agent, Carlyle Robinson (in glasses), can be seen, very briefly, with Charlie...
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With Pola Negri at the Pebble Beach Lodge in Del Monte, CA on the day they...
Chaplin told the reporters: "Yes, we are engaged." (NYT, Jan. 29, 1923) However within a month or two the whole thing would be called off--thank goodness. What a disaster that marriage would have been.
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Chaplin at a party honoring Arthur Rubinstein, 1939
CC is chatting with Gladys Peabody. At left is Reginald Gardiner (Schultz is The Great Dictator)More photos from the party here.
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Los Angeles premiere of CITY LIGHTS, January 30th, 1931
City Lights premiered at the newly constructed Los Angeles Theater. Charlie's guests that evening were Albert Einstein and his wife, Elsa. He recalled that the professor "laughed like a boy" and would...
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HIS NEW JOB, released 100 years ago today
Charlie plays a would-be actor in His New Job.This was Chaplin's first (and appropriately titled) film for Essanay and the only film he made at their Chicago studio. Although the film is considered by...
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Photoplay, October 1930 (click to enlarge)Find the mistakes below (click to enlarge): *Mistake spoilers past this point*I'm thinking most of you didn't find all 20 because some of the "mistakes" aren't...
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Photos of Chaplin taken at the White Studio in New York City during his first...
Source: NYPLLittle did he realize at the time that photos from this sitting would be used to promote his films many years later. For example, here is a lobby card for Sunnyside (1919) using the photo...
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Chaplin & Buster Keaton outside the Balboa Studios, 1918
From Buster Keaton: Cut To The Chase by Marion MeadeI originally posted the top photo last year as a photo of CC and Buster Keaton but now that a clearer version of the photo has come to light (below),...
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"Chaplin's Sartorial Art"
We all know the story of how Chaplin's Little Tramp costume came to be. But what about the costume of one of his most famous co-stars? Jackie Coogan's tattered wardrobe in The Kid has a story all its...
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