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According to a Hearst employee's diary, Charlie fondled the "It Girl"& nude...
The following is a diary entry from Hayes Perkins, an "eccentric vagabond," who was an employee of William Randolph Hearst's San Simeon estate for ten years & kept a diary of the goings on there....
View ArticleSyd Chaplin in Gussle's Wayward Path (1915)
The character of Gussle was created by Syd and is a version of Archibald Binks the character he (& Charlie) played in a number of Fred Karno productions (including Skating). Despite claims that the...
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Chaplin & Edna Purviance with some of the cast and crew of IN THE PARK,...
Photo: The Sea Gull by Linda Wada/Hill Archive
View ArticleSaturday Night Live opening skit from 1978 featuring a silent movie parody of...
The grave robbers are portrayed by John Belushi and Dan Ackroyd (Ackroyd later played Mack Sennett in the 1992 Chaplin film). Bill Murray plays a cop.
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Spring Is Here
"Spring Song" (Limelight, 1952)Charlie's handwritten notes for "Spring Song" with slightly different lyrics:Limelight: Project Chaplin No. 1 / ©Roy Export SASSpring is hereBirds are callingWagging...
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Chaplin with Lord & Lady Mountbatten and others at Pickfair, 1922
Buffalo Evening News, October 26, 1922This photo was taken during the filming of Nice & Friendly (1922), a film Chaplin made as a wedding gift for the Mountbattens. The Neilsons, Pells, and Mr....
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Chaplin with Russian director Grigori Alexandrov and his wife, actress Lyubov...
Alexadrov and his wife visited the Chaplins in Vevey in 1953. Charlie & Grigori had first met in Hollywood in 1930 when the latter was working as an assistant to Sergei Eisenstein.1 They had not...
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Color photo, c.1940s
This photo is currently up for auction on ebay (it's actually a slide unfortunately). I'd never seen it before but it appears to have been taken at the same time as this b&w photo that I haveIt's...
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Charlie & Doug visit Mary on the set of How Could You, Jean, 1918
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Chaplin & Gene Tierney at a party at Marion Davies' home, c.1951
Tierney was probably best-known for portraying the title character in Laura (1944), a film whose score (and famous title song) was composed by David Raksin, who was Chaplin's musical assistant on...
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Chaplin on the steps of the Pergamon Altar at the Pergamon Museum in Berlin,...
Another picture here.Chaplin was especially impressed by the painted bust of Nefertiti at the museum (In fact, he told Carlyle Robinson that he could easily fall love with it). He at once ordered a...
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Dodge Brothers Radio Hour
Back Row: Albin Kesley Schoepf (Dodge Bros. rep.), Douglas Fairbanks & Joseph Schenck, president of UA.Front Row: Dolores Del Rio, John Barrymore, CC, D.W. Griffith & Norma Talmadge.On March...
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The birth of Chaplin's second son was making headlines 89 years ago
Happy birthday, Sydney (March 30, 1926)Logansport Pharos Tribune, March 31, 1926Los Angeles Times, April 2, 1926.Arthur "Sonny" Kelly was the brother of Hetty Kelly. Milt Gross worked as a gagman on...
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A JITNEY ELOPEMENT, released April 1, 1915
Written and directed by Charles ChaplinEdna's father wants her to marry Count Chloride de Lime but she only has eyes for her true love, Charlie. In order to save her, he poses as the Count at dinner...
View ArticleCharlie gets April Fooled
From the Edinburgh Scotsman, April 3rd, 1931 (reprinted in Syd Chaplin: A Biography by Lisa Stein Haven):April 1 Joke On ChaplinChaplin found out today that it was April 1. He lunched with his brother...
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Harry Carr describes a day on the set of Chaplin's final short comedy, PAY...
The following is an excerpt from "Speech Of Gold" by Harry Carr, Motion Picture, May 1922Hanging over the edge of a scaffolding, midway between me and the blue California sky, were the two most famous...
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Charlie & Oona at the Hotel Formentor in Majorca, Spain, July 1959
Oona is pregnant with Annette.www.dominicus.malleotus.free.fr
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Chaplin the day he was acquitted in Mann Act case, 4/4/44
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View ArticleChaplin gives a speech at ventriloquist Fred Russell's 90th birthday party in...
The party was held during a meeting of the Grand Order of the Water Rats, an exclusive club for vaudevillians, of which Chaplin had been a member since 1931. In fact, Russell officiated Chaplin's...
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