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Chaplin & steel magnate Charles Schwab, c.1919
This photo was new to me. It is currently up for sale on eBay if you have an extra $600 burning a hole in your pocket.The back of the photo says: "The King Of The Screen & The King of Steel."Here's...
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Discovering Chaplin is on Patreon
You may have noticed the Patreon banner on the blog recently (the big orange one on the right that says "Become a Patron"). So what exactly is "Patreon" and how does it work?Patreon is a site that...
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Chaplin -- "a singer of the first order"
British journalist Kathlyn Hayden describes watching Chaplin burst into song during a break on the set of City Lights:❝In the flesh there is little of the pathos about Charlie. He is essentially the...
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Food For Thought
During his acceptance speech for the Chaplin Award on Monday night, Robert De Niro said the award's namesake would not be admitted to Donald Trump's U.S.:“All of us in film – directors, actors,...
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Charlie, with real mustache, on the cover of ILLUSTRATED magazine, 70 years...
I want to apologize for not updating the blog as often as I used to. Sadly blogging has had to take a backseat to real life these days. Trust me, if I could devote every single day to researching...
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Red Letter Days
One of the reasons I haven't posted anything new recently is because I have been staying up until the wee hours the last few nights reading Dan Kamin's terrific new book. It's called Charlie Chaplin's...
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How many can you name?
This contest appeared in the De Kalb (Illinois) Chronicle on Feb. 7th, 1916. The first twenty-five readers who could identify all (or almost all) of the faces (besides Charlie's) received two free...
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Chaplin in New York Federal Court, May 1927
Chaplin is seen here on the witness stand during the Leo Loeb plagiarism trial in May 1927.Note how he is sitting with one foot tucked under him. Contemporary accounts describe him sitting this way...
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Chaplin at the volcano
Last month, David Totheroh, grandson of Chaplin's longtime cameraman Rollie Totheroh, visited the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii in hopes of locating the spot where Charlie and his companions took in the...
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Working With Charlie Chaplin: Vol. 8: Paulette Goddard
Chaplin's "Gamine" recalls what she learned at "the greatest school of acting anyone could ever have":"He told me you can't be clever. If you just be your own self, it comes through more than anything....
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Chaplin & his friend, artist Ralph Barton, photographed by Nickolas Muray,...
In a strange series of coincidences, Barton was married from 1923-1926 to Carlotta Monterey, who in 1929 married Eugene O'Neill, who in 1943 became Chaplin's father-in-law.Nickolas Muray was a close...
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Marilyn Monroe, Lita Grey Chaplin, and Charlie Chaplin, Jr at the Henrietta...
That evening Marilyn was presented with the Best Young Box Office Personality Award.Charlie, Jr dated Marilyn in the late 1940s when she was still Norma Jean Dougherty.
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THE IMMIGRANT, released 100 years ago today
The release date for The Immigrant is often given as June 17th, 1917 but trade publications & newspapers from the era say the 18th. Michael Hayde's recent book on the Mutuals, Chaplin's Vintage...
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Mystery photo
This photo shows Chaplin and Jinx Falkenburg (right) talking to a mystery couple. Any idea who the man and woman on the left might be? The date is probably circa 1941. I'm not completely convinced that...
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Autographed photo from Chaplin to Major General Ian Hay Beith, February 1918
From the collection of Cecil Jones. Used with permission.The inscription reads: "To Capt I. H. Beith, In Sincere Admiration, Charlie Chaplin, Feb. 24th, 1918"Another photo exists of Chaplin & Beith...
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Chaplin & Edna Purviance at the premiere of D.W. Griffith's "Hearts Of The...
Many thanks to Dominique for sharing with me this rare photo of Charlie and Edna together in public.Los Angeles Evening Herald, March 13, 1918In a 1925 interview with Harry Carr, Chaplin listed Hearts...
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I just want to check in and let everyone know what's going on with me. My elderly mother-in-law has recently come to live with us. She broke her hip a few weeks ago, had hip replacement surgery, and is...
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With Sid Grauman
I've never seen this one before. Given how young both of them look, it may have been taken around the time of the opening of Grauman's Million Dollar Theater in 1918.The caption on the back...
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Checking In
Hi everyone,I wanted to pop in and let you know that I am still planning to return to the blog at some point in very near future. Right now, I am recovering from surgery. Nothing too serious, just...
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Hi everyone, I just wanted to give you an update about what's been going on with this site.A few weeks ago, I forgot to renew my discoveringchaplin.com domain and it expired (long story), so I had to...
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