“When will girls like that learn to know when I’m through?”
The following is an excerpt from Hedda Hopper’s autobiography From Under My Hat published in 1952. It is common knowledge that Hopper disliked Chaplin for […]
Month: November 2015
This month in 1926
Morning Register (Eugene, OR), November 21, 1926 On November 6th, 1926, Chaplin’s second wife, Lita, sailed for Honolulu with their son, Charlie, Jr. and her […]
Discovering Chaplin
I hope everyone has a very Happy Thanksgiving tomorrow. I’ve been busy cooking all day–but not my shoe, thankfully! xo Jess
Chaplin Studios, then and now
http://www.lamag.com/citythinkblog/time-frame-charlie-chaplin-studios-now/ The inset photo of Chaplin was originally taken in color. See it here.
Chance remark by Harry Lauder becomes the title of Chaplin’s “forthcoming rib-tickler”
Lauder and Chaplin at the newly built Chaplin Studios, January 1918 Tulsa World, April 28, 1918
Chaplin with Harry d’Arrast in Fontainebleau, August 1931
Photo courtesy of Dominique Dugros.
A NIGHT IN THE SHOW, released 100 years ago this week*
*The release date for this film is almost always given as November 20th but contemporary trade journals give the date as the 15th. Chaplin’s twelfth […]
Son Sydney on his father’s “phony” prop smile.
From a c. mid-1970s interview.
Coming February 2016 from Criterion
This one features visual essays by Lisa Stein Haven and Ben Model, plus audio commentary by Charles Maland. More info here: https://www.criterion.com/films/27566-the-kid