"The Sacrifice"
This home movie features Charlie as the King of the South Sea Islands who is smitten with Popo the Dancing Girl. It is from the Mountbatten archives (and was featured on the "extras" disc of the...
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Still from the original ending of Pay Day (1922)
This original closing scene showed Charlie drying himself (& his clothes) next to a radiator. Chaplin deleted this ending when he reissued the film in the 1970s. Â The original version can still be...
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With Australian opera singer, Dame Nellie Melba, c. 1917
Melba is on Charlie's left, Lady Susan FitzClarence is on his right. Source.The following is from Melba's memoir, Melodies and Memories (1926):I had long had a great desire to meet Charlie Chaplin, and...
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Chaplin & the Oscars
Charlie won three Academy Awards in his lifetime--two honorary and one competitive.At the first Academy Awards presentations ceremony in 1929, he was given a special award was for “Versatility and...
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Charlie meets George Bernard Shaw at a luncheon hosted by Lady Astor, Feb....
L-R: Aviator Amy Johnson (standing arm in arm with Charlie), Lady Astor, George Bernard Shaw (petting a greyhound), Lord Astor, and Chaplin’s friend, Ralph Barton.Charlie originally planned to meet...
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With Fannie Brice at the Trocadero, c. 1938
An early version of The Great Dictator script included a wife for Hynkel, a role intended for Brice. The following scene suggests that it may have encountered serious problems with the Breen office and...
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London premiere of City Lights at the Dominion Theater, Feb. 27th, 1931
Charlie's guests were George Bernard Shaw and Lord & Lady Astor (Ralph Barton is facing Charlie on the left.) Â When the film was over, Shaw said, "The little fellow is a genius whom none of us has...
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Upcoming Chaplin films on TCM (USA)
March 1st: The Circus at 6:00am (EST) & Monsieur Verdoux in prime time at 8:00pm March 6th: Limelight at 12:00amOn April 16th, TCM will celebrate Charlie's birthday by showing several of his films...
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Doug, Mary & Charlie, c. 1923
I believe these photos were taken on the set of Pickford's film, Rosita.
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Charlie with Eugenia Gilbert, winner of the Venice Bathing Girl Parade, c. 1921
Santa Fe Magazine, Dec. 1921
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Charlie & Oona with their Siamese cat, c. 1957
I've read that Charlie had a Siamese cat named Monkey that he brought to Switzerland from Hollywood, but I'm not sure if this is the same cat.
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35 years ago
Charlie's second gravesiteOn March 2nd, 1978, Charlie's coffin was dug up & stolen from his grave in Vevey, Switzerland. It would not be recovered for another three months. Roman Wardas and...
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"Hat Trick" by Edward Steichen
This famous multi-panel shot, entitled "Hat Trick," was taken by Steichen in New York in February 1931, while Charlie was in the city promoting his film City Lights and just before he left for Europe...
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L-R: Tennis champion Bill Tilden, Charlie, Douglas Fairbanks & Spanish tennis...
Tilden was a friend of Charlie's for many years. His career ended in scandal in the 1940s after he was arrested for soliciting an underage male prostitute. Following his incarceration, Tilden was...
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Sir Charles Chaplin
On March 4th, 1975, Charlie was knighted in a ceremony at Buckingham palace.The following is from The Washington Post, March 5th, 1975:The 85-year-old maestro of films had been anxious to kneel before...
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