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Charles Chaplin

Born 16 April 1889 in London, England, United Kingdom, as Charles Spencer Chaplin.
Died 25 December 1977 at Manoir de Ban, Corsier sur Vevey, Switzerland, of natural causes.

Half-brother of actors Sydney Chaplin and Wheeler Dryden.

Married actress Mildred Harris, October 1918; divorced, 1920.
Married actress Lita Grey, 26 November 1924; son, Sydney Chaplin; son, Charles Chaplin Jr.; divorced, 25 August 1928.
Married actress Paulette Goddard, 1936; divorced, 1942.
Married Oona O’Neill, 1943; daughter, actress Geraldine Chaplin; daughter, Victoria Chaplin; son, Michael Chaplin; son, Christopher; until Charles’ death, 25 December 1977.

Charles Chaplin began entertainment work in British music halls. As a young comedian, he toured Europe and America with the Fred Karno company through 1913. Chaplin began film work early in 1914 for Mack Sennett at The Keystone Film Company studio, where he became a world-famous film comedian. Chaplin signed with Essanay Film Manufacturing Company in 1915 for a considerable raise in pay and was, at the time, the world’s highest-paid film star. He became independent film producer, releasing through Mutual Film Corporation, from 1916 through 1917. Chaplin released films through Associated First National Pictures, Incorporated, from 1918 through 1923, and released through United Artists Corporation from 1923 into the forties.

Very soon after beginning his motion picture career, Chaplin not only was the principal comedian in his films, he developed storylines and gags for the comedies, and directed them as well. Chaplin’s comic technique — developed for vaudeville — began to mature in the 1910s, with more emphasis on story and character development (largely unheard of in the early days of comic cinema), and he occasionally brought pathos into his persona as The Little Tramp. In his later silent era work, Chaplin’s obsessive development of his stories often delayed his films for years, but the results were always worth waiting for. Today, Charles Chaplin’s little tramp remains the world’s most recognized film character.

References: Website-IMDb.

 
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Book : Chaplin: Genius of the Cinema by Jeffrey Vance

Book : The Essential Chaplin: Perspectives on the Life and Art of the Great Comedian by Richard Schickel

Book : Charlie Chaplin at Keystone and Essanay: Dawn of the Tramp by Ted Okuda and David Maska

Book : Charlie Chaplin Interviews edited by Kevin J. Hayes

Book : Charlie Chaplin and His Times by Kenneth S. Lynn

Book : Making Music with Charlie Chaplin by Eric James and Jeffrey Vance

 

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[Screenland, April 1922, pages 4, 7] Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin, Doug. Fairbanks and scores of other screen celebrities back on the stage! That’s what’s likely to happen at the big show that all Los Angeles and Hollywood is talking about — The Hollywood Follies of 1922. The show which will be a big revue built on the design of the Ziegfeld and Greenwich Village Follies will be entirely original. Nothing has been said about the appearance, as yet, of Doug, Mary and Charlie but it is generally assumed that they will take part. It is planned to put the show on for two nights in Los Angeles and to make a one night stand in San Francisco.

 
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