In 1914, Keystone Studios released two short films that gave a world marching to war a reason to laugh. Their titles, “Kid Auto Races at Venice” and “Mabel’s Strange Predicament,” are far less ...
Hollywood studios did not want Charlie Chaplin to make The Great Dictator. When he first started writing the script in 1938, the U.S. had not yet entered World War II. In fact, it still enjoyed ...
Scott Eyman’s new biography “Charlie Chaplin vs. America” (Simon & Schuster, publishes Oct. 31) chronicles the amazing – and still shocking – fall from grace that led Hollywood’s first global ...
This fragile little man who has shaken the wide world with laughter looks at himself and feels he is a greater joke—a less merry and more wistful—than any he has concocted. There was, for instance, ...
Nonetheless, his films such as City Lights, Modern Times, The Gold Rush and The Great Dictator are built into the foundations of motion picture history. As its title reveals, this new documentary, ...
Charlie Chaplin's Limelight opened on October 23, 1952, launching what would become one of the strangest Oscar stories in Academy history. The film eventually became the only one for which Chaplin won ...
On Jan. 30, 1931, United Artists unveiled Charlie Chaplin's silent film that took aim at the talkie pictures. By THR Staff On Jan. 30, 1931, United Artists unveiled the silent film City Lights, ...
Charlie Chaplin was, in his time, the most famous man in America and perhaps the world. Known as “The Little Tramp,” he was unrecognizable when stripped of his makeup. A handsome, bon vivant man with ...
Charlie Chaplin: A Brief Life (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday), by Peter Ackroyd In 1914, Keystone Studios released two short films that gave a world marching to war a reason to laugh. Their titles, Kid Auto ...
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