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Chaplin & the Oscars
Charlie won three Academy Awards--two honorary and one competitive.At the first Academy Awards presentations ceremony in 1929, he was given a special award was for “Versatility and genius in writing,...
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This footage was taken from a 1960s TV series called Hollywood & The Stars. The documentary has some other rare footage including a portion of a 1918 screen test with little Dorothy Rosher (later...
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"Hollywood's Malibu Beach" by Miguel Covarrubias
This drawing initially appeared in Vanity Fair, August 1933Chaplin is hard to miss, just look for gray hair and teeth. He's also one of the few in a suit (of course).For a key to the drawing, click here.
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Portrait of "scared rabbit" Charlie Chaplin by Edward Steichen, New York, 1931
Steichen remembered Chaplin as "one of the most difficult subjects I have encountered in years of photography. He sat waiting like a scared rabbit. His ears were back as though ready to scamper for...
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THE PILGRIM, released February 26th, 1923
This was Chaplin's final film for First National and as usual it has an "escape-from-prison" theme (see The Adventurer, his last film for Mutual, and Police, his last film for Essanay.)"May be...
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Jackie Coogan on working with Chaplin
From the A&E documentary A Tramp's Life (1998) which is impossible to find in any form in English but an Italian version is on youtube (almost all of the interviews are dubbed over...
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37 years ago today
Charlie's empty graveIn the early morning hours of March 2nd, 1978, Charlie's coffin was dug up & stolen from his grave in Vevey, Switzerland. The oak coffin, which weighed over 300 pounds and...
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Sir Charles Chaplin
After twenty years of being denied knighthood because of his political views and scandalous sex life, Chaplin was finally given the honor in an investiture ceremony at Buckingham Palace on March 4th,...
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Charlie and Paulette, c.1940
Another pose with the dog here and some without the dog here. I believe some famous portraits of Chaplin by himself were also taken during this same photo shoot (click here). These are thought to have...
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Chaplin, violin in hand, with Alf Reeves, c. 1918
In this photo from My Life In Pictures, Chaplin states that he brought his violin to California on the Karno tour. I think this caption causes some confusion as to the date of the photo. This was not...
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THE CHAMPION, released March 11, 1915
Written and directed by Charles Chaplin.Filmed in Niles, CA, this was his third film for Essanay.Basic plot: Charlie takes a job as a sparring partner and ends up fighting the world champion.Chaplin...
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"Without the Cane & Derby"
In 1921, Carl Sandburg1 wrote a profile of Chaplin for the Chicago Daily News called "A Visit With Chaplin." Within the piece he describes a pantomime Chaplin put on for his friends during an...
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Roscoe Arbuckle visits the Lone Star Studio, 1916
Judging from the costumes, Chaplin was filming Behind The Screen. Henry Bergman is between Chaplin and Arbuckle. Eric Campbell is at left. Everyone appears to be checking out Arbuckle's fancy car.Photo...
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Chaplin with Spanish screenwriter/director Edgar Neville on the set of City...
When Neville came to Hollywood from Madrid in 1929, he quickly became part of Chaplin's inner circle and spent a great deal of time on the set of City Lights. He even had a small part in the film as a...
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