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I agree. Fully restored, too! :-)
...t me for ), I believe that, had he lived, Eric Campbell could have been the first 'breakout star' from the Chaplin company. His personna was copied by several actors in parody form, most notably Olive...
I would say he did have his own brand of art there. But it tended to decline. The Great Dictator and Mr Verdoux were fabulous...albeit no Gold Rush. But I think that for CC to try to turn his sound fi
... the TIME 100. This issue it's 'Artists and Entertainers of the Century.'
Under 'The Comedian' they pick Chaplin. The article is written by Ann Douglas, the author of 'Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manh...
You are possibly referring to the changing position of Chaplin's hands as those two powerful close-up are intercut? This gets into an issue which has many ramifications beyond the purely technical and
In the Variety obituary for Jean Havez in 1925, it is stated that he did gag writing for Chaplin, Arbuckle, Keaton, and Lloyd. He is listed in film credits for some of Arbuckle, Keaton and Lloyd's fil
if anyone has anything like this on video or laserdisc, let me know
...ne. L.B. Mayer would not permit it.
I have seen Keaton in numerous TV spots and he comes across well. If Chaplin had not been in exile, I wonder how he might have fared with guest spots on various v...
...e been hooked ever since. I'm very happy to find that I'm far from the only one.
If anyone has a list of Chaplin sites out there that they would like to share, I would be very grateful. I already ha...
I don't have the exact quote handy, but...
Chaplin's son Sydney was asked what he thought of his father's book, 'My Autobiography.' His reply was something along the lines of 'Funny a man should liv
The recent thread about Chaplin and manic depression has been interesting. He definitely had the symptoms, as did many other artists of the highest level. I have often pondered about the effect that c
Chaplin said it about talkies, and was obviously wrong. Others said it about alt.movies.chaplin, and they too were wrong.
I've waited with baited breath, for this occasion when, on my server at leas
...up for awhile, and don't have a copy at hand.
However, the charter specifies that all matters related to Chaplin, directly or indirectly, may be discussed on this group. There is therefore a wide la...
Although he doesn't limit himself to CC's talkies, I like Julian Smith's _Charlie Chaplin_ because he discusses _The Great Dictator_, _Msr Verdoux_, and _Limelight_ at much greater length and with mor
Has everyone read Alexander Woolcott's essays on Chaplin's THE PILGRIM (in the book Enchanted Aisles) and CITY LIGHTS (in When Rome Burns) ?? If not, I recommend seeking them out as they are well-writ
...s with all your favorite stars on the covers. Covers have photos of stars like Jolson, Mae West, Dietrich, Chaplin, Marx Brothers, Etc. I also have other categories like Ragtime, Blues, Black related,...
Thanks so much for sharing this, Lou. And remember to ignore those few 'authorities' around here trying to blame you for all those overreactions/self-destructions/threads-that-go-on-and-on-over-nothin
FYI, I found a nice stack of the Chaplin wall calendar at a Barnes & Noble in Austin. I hadn't been able to locate it on B&N's online bookstore or Borders or Amazon's online.
For those who want to p
...eborah - you win, I think Sandra - Sandra, Sandra Tom - Chipmunks? Gloria - I didn't steal it, Leslie did! Chaplinian - come back, Shane!...
I'm looking to find someone or someplace that has a color picture of Charlie Chaplin - not colorized. I know he had blue eyes, not brown and that his hair turned very white when he was still young. St
Okay this has been really bothering me.....
Chaplin loved pancakes - it was one of his food fetishes. In 'My Trip Abroad' he calls them buckwheat cakes - but everywhere else I've read they've been c
Lou,
I heard of that book, but I couldn't find it anywhere.
Thanks for sharing - that stuff sounds great! Please share more with us!!
Lori :)
...ound, stating that he compromised a bit by adding a soundtrack to CL. However, the author ads, 'though he (Chaplin) did announce 'Jew Suss' as a Talkie, starring himself.' I've never heard of this fil...
David & Janice Osborn wrote:
The only 'great copy' of that book would be one in which all the ink had run to the point of illegibility. Besides, I think it set some kind of record for the shortest t
I wonder if he would include 'The Chaplin Revue' in that category.
You're right
...h what anyone else thinks?
Connie can verify that for a period of months I 'lurked' *here* and discussed Chaplin only with her in an extensive e-mail correspondence...
Welcome to the group, Ben, but I don't think anyone of us was fighting at all. We were simply expressing our favorites. If you want to see what fighting is all about, check out two past threads on CIT
... poisoning the air. She could smell it plainly. . . .' Etc. Pp. 135-6 in hardback or pb.
Lita's story of Chaplin telling her to jump off a train, which Lou mentions, is not supported by the accounts...
... crude and primitive, especially when compared to the more refined First National productions, but some of Chaplin's Keystone shorts are significant as pioneer efforts from perhaps the most important ...
...hile some nodding-head drama was promoted, then 'The Pilgrim' was shown. The music for this was definately Chaplin with Mat Munro singing a cowboy song...
Surely Chaplin does a voice-over for these ...
...t night the LACMA crowd went wild for THE CIRCUS. I Hadn't seen it for a long time. There is a scene where Chaplin, after entertaining in the big top, walks off and lays down in a cart almost in a fet...
...either immersed in water or was doused in some way (_City Lights_ come to mind for both of these). Knowing Chaplin's habit of doing take after take after take, it would seem that this is yet another C...
...enigni says that he is the first comedian to make a film about the Holocaust, he's well aware that Charlie Chaplin preceded him by more than 50 years with his 1940 spoof on Adolf Hitler, 'The Great Di...
I re-watched Chaplin's 'Monsieur Verdoux' last night, and this morning something came back to haunt me.
At the end of the film at the posh restaurant when the police finally track down Chaplin, I di
Hi;
Scuse me, I've been away a while and have just seen references to Chaplinistas. What is this a reference to? It sounds a little like a Rush Limbaugh label (ie soccer mom, feminazi, environmental
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