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On the set of A WOMAN OF PARIS (1923)
This is the chair that Marie (Edna Purviance) is sitting in in the film when she reads about Pierre's engagement.
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Friday, May 22nd: Charlie & Co. set sail for AmericaAfter a four-month tour of Asia, Chaplin, Paulette, her mother, Alta, and valet Frank, began their journey back to California.In his memoir,...
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Chaplin entertains tennis players, Sept. 1929
Chaplin & his guests on his Summit Drive tennis court, which had just been built earlier that year. L-R: Edith Cross, Phoebe Watson, Betty Nuthall, CC, ?, ? Dorothy Shepherd-Barron, Ambassador...
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With theatrical producer Morris Gest, April 1926
Gest had recently signed with United Artists.
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POLICE, released May 27, 1916
This was Chaplin's final film for Essanay (or the last one he personally supervised) and was released after Chaplin had already joined the Mutual Film Corporation.There's also some mystery behind the...
View ArticleChaplin in SHOW PEOPLE (1928)
Here's Chaplin's cameo in King Vidor's Show People, starring Marion Davies and William Haines. I think that's Harry Crocker walking with Chaplin at the beginning. Notice Marion doesn't exactly say "Who...
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DAY BY DAY: 1936
Friday, May 29th: The Coolidge, en route to San Francisco, makes a brief stop in HonoluluSailing from Yokohama, the President Coolidge, carrying Charlie, Paulette, her mother, Alta, and valet Frank...
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"It might be the head of a criminal, mightn't it?"
In early November 1921, shortly after his return from Europe, British writer and sculptor, Clare Sheridan, a cousin of Winston Churchill, spent three days creating a bust of Chaplin at his...
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Ad for POLICE, June 1st, 1916
I don't recall seeing this pose before.Oakland Tribune, 6/1/1916
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Day By Day: 1936
Wednesday, June 3rd: Charlie and Paulette arrive in San Francisco following their four-month tour of the Far East.It was also Paulette's 26th birthday. Charlie & Paulette with fellow passenger Jean...
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Friday, June 5th: Charlie and Paulette return to Los AngelesThey arrived home by car, having driven down from Pebble Beach that morning.Shortly afterward, Chaplin contacted his sons, Charlie, Jr. (11)...
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Drawing by Ralph Barton
"Charlie Chaplin watching himself in the movies: The little fellow's okay."--illus. for Delineator, December 1930
View ArticleChaplin boxes Benny Leonard, 1918
This was posted by the Chaplin Official Facebook page today. Most of us have seen this footage before but the part at the beginning (around the :30 mark) where they are all standing around and saluting...
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Day By Day: 1936
Monday, June 8th: Chaplin's car is rear-ended on Hollywood Blvd. San Bernardino Sun, June 9th, 1936The Rootes had traveled alongside Charlie and Paulette on the President Coolidge between Yokohama and...
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Chaplin at the Hotel Miramar in Biarritz, 1931
Photos by Boris LipnitzkiI'm not sure of the identity of the others in the photos.
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Day By Day: 1936
A letter from SydneyIn this letter to Charlie, dated June 4th, 1936, Sydney gives a critical analysis of his younger brother's latest film, Modern Times, and suggests ideas for future projects,...
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New York, 1923
Chaplin, in his favorite Napoleonic pose, reading telegrams in his suite at the Ritz following the NYC premiere of A Woman Of Paris.See same photo from different angles here.
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I came across these video clips on Getty Images recently. Although Charlie appears for only a few seconds in both, the footage was unfamiliar to me.This first clip is from a luncheon for George Bernard...
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SUNNYSIDE "Compressed" from FILM FUN magazine
Chaplin's third "Million Dollar Comedy" for First National was released 97 years ago today.Film Fun, August 1919(Click to Enlarge)(Note: Tom Wood did not play a sheriff.)
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Charlie & Oona attend a campaign rally for presidential candidate Henry...
Henry Wallace had been FDR's Secretary of Agriculture, and later was vice president during Roosevelt's third term (1940-1944). When Roosevelt ran for his fourth term, Wallace was replaced by Harry...
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