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The Chaplins at the Knie Circus in Vevey, 1964
The Chaplins attended this circus each October beginning in 1953. Charlie's last outing, two months before he died in December 1977, was attending a performance of the Knie Circus.L-R: Oona, Annette,...
View ArticleThe Making of Taschen's "The Charlie Chaplin Archives"
The release date (according to Amazon) is September 15th.
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Chaplin's Music Man
In this great article by Jim Lochner, Meredith Willson describes working with Chaplin on the Oscar-nominated score for The Great Dictator:charliechaplinmusic.com/chaplins-music-man“He would have been...
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A visit from General Hunter Liggett at the Lone Star Studio, 1917
Liggett also visited the Fox studio and posed with Theda Bera, in costume for Cleopatra.
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Rare photos of Chaplin with Rob Wagner & his family
Many thanks to Wagner's great-grandson, Rob Leicester Wagner, for sharing these wonderful photos with me & for giving me permission to post them here.With Wagner's wife, Florence. Behind them is...
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Listen to Chaplin and others in a political roundtable discussion on KFWB,...
"On Wednesday, December 16, 1942, Charlie Chaplin made one of the most unusual radio broadcasts of his career. His friend Robert Arden asked him to appear on America Looks Abroad, a 45-minute...
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With May Reeves in Juan-les-Pins, summer 1931
Photo courtesy of Stephen LovegroveThere has been a bit of a debate over whether or not the woman next to Charlie (with her straps down) is May. I believe that it is. Her body shape, her long nose, and...
View ArticleColor home movie footage of Chaplin at San Simeon
This is either in color or color-tinted. The woman is Hearst's wife, Millicent.
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Charles Spencer Chaplin: Talented director/Beloved comedian
Picture Show Annual (1926). Larger photo by Witzel, c.1923
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Charlie with his Siamese cat, Monkey, 1955
Monkey was a family pet in Hollywood and was flown over when the Chaplins moved to Switzerland in 1952.
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"Speed, dust, location"
Chaplin gave careful thought to the filming of the final scene in The Circus, as indicated by the following contemporary description, by an unidentified reporter, of Chaplin at work, on location in...
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Charlie picks up Doug & Mary at the train station in Pasadena
"The Big Three" in Charlie's new Rolls Royce. Mary puts on a brave face.After several months traveling in Europe, Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks were back in California. "Although all sizes and...
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In shades in the Sierra Nevada mountains during location filming of THE GOLD...
Chaplin's publicist Jim Tully recalled that "the terrible glare of the sun on snow nearly blinded us at times. It made our skin turn red and blister and caused our eyes to burn through the night."...
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A Party For Charlie & Oona
Here is home movie footage of a party given for Charlie & Oona by their friends, Walter and Carol Matthau, in Los Angeles in 1972. The footage is silent but includes some nice shots of Charlie,...
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Signed photo of Chaplin and boxer Ted Lewis, 1918
Charlie is on a ladder in the tree handing an orange to Lewis. The photo is inscribed to boxing promoter Bert Burrows.www.liveauctioneers.com
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"Little Pitchers Have Big Ears": An Insider's View of The Great Dictator by...
Francesca was five-years-old when she was chosen to play "Aggie" in Charlie Chaplin's film The Great Dictator (1940). She is best remembered for the line: "Not yet, he's polishing a bald man's head."...
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ONE A.M., released August 7th, 1916
Chaplin said in 1916 that "if any man could appear absolutely alone and hold attention for two full reels, he believed he could do it."1 And he did do it in his fourth release for the Mutual Film...
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Working With Charlie Chaplin: Vol. 2: Lunch Time
Lunch on location"Most days we went to lunch at Musso and Frank's, a nearby restaurant that is to this day one of my favorites. Charlie, Henry Bergman (who appeared in any Chaplin films), Carter de...
View ArticleChaplin meets the Queen
As of today, Queen Elizabeth II becomes the longest reigning British monarch. Here she attends a Royal Film Performance of Because You're Mine on October 27th, 1952. Chaplin is among the many...
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