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Chaplin at a children's party in Berlin, March 1931
source: catsandjammer.tumblr.comTranslation:Charlie Chaplinat achildren's party in Berlin 1932 [sic]StefanLorant(left) presentsChaplinbeforethe childrenof famous actors. To the rightofChaplin:...
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THE IMMIGRANT, released June 18th, 1917
Some sources give the release date as the 17th but it's really the 18th.This was Chaplin's second to last film for the Mutual Film Corporation. The day before its release, he signed his first...
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With a visitor at the Lone Star Studios, 1917
Charlie is in costume for The Cure.This photo was posted on Flickr a couple of years ago but has since been removed. The caption said the woman was "Aunt Norma."
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Work, released June 21, 1915
“Most of the fun in Work, one of my very latest releases, comes through the efforts of a painter’s assistant to push a two-wheeled barrow loaded with materials. This idea came to me from a scene I...
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A Short, Short Story about Loyal Underwood
This article is a bit tongue-in-cheek but I never knew Loyal had a radio career. In fact, he spent a few years in the 1930s as a singing cowboy in a group called Loyal Underwood and the Arizona...
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Cinea, December 15th, 1922According to Charlie (via my very loose translation): "It is sometimes better to take a dog than the devil by the tail."The tail Charlie is pulling belongs to "Bill," a dog...
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With Argentinian cartoonist Ramón Columba at the Chaplin Studios, 1925
Chaplin is looking at an issue of Columba's comic magazine,Paginas de Columba. A 1925 issue of the magazine shows a colorized photo of Columba, Chaplin, and Harry d'Arrast on the cover.See original...
View ArticleHappy birthday, Georgia Hale (June 25, 1900)
Here is part of an interview with Georgia from Kevin Brownlow & David Gill's documentary Unknown Chaplin (1983) where she discusses the original ending of The Gold Rush. I adore Georgia in this...
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90 years ago today: the Hollywood premiere of THE GOLD RUSH at Grauman's...
Cover of premiere program. See entire program here.More than 15,000 fans, held in check by ropes and police, gathered outside the theater on the evening of June 26th, 1925 to watch the celebrities...
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Chaplin praises "marvelous" color television
Radio Varieties, January 1941 (click to enlarge)Chaplin may praise color television here but he disagreed with color for motion pictures. He told an interviewer in 1931 that, "for his part, he...
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Candid photos from the filming of HIS NEW PROFESSION (1914)
Photos courtesy of Lisa Stein Haven. These candid shots show Chaplin & his cast and crew filming at Westlake Park in Los Angeles, perhaps in front of an audience (?) Please feel free to comment...
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Meredith Willson on Charlie's "twiddeldy bits"
“The themes we use, excepting for a bit of Wagner and Brahms interpolation, are about half Mr. Chaplin’s and half mine, with my development and orchestration. And it’s uncanny how right he always is...
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Guestbook entry with signature from 1909
This rare item is currently up for auction on eBay in case you have an extra $3,000 lying around. It reads:Good Luck to Mrs StewartShe is the best in theworld shall always likeGlasgow as long as...
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Chaplin at San Simeon, 1933
Photo by Martin Munkacsi.The blonde might be Carmel Snow. This appears to have been taken at the same time as this group photo at the Hearst dining table and these photos of CC and Marion Davies.
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