
Recording session for MODERN TIMES, November 1935
At right, Chaplin shakes hands with conductor Alfred Newman. Eighty-years ago this month, Chaplin recorded the music for Modern Times, his final silent film. The sessions were […]
At right, Chaplin shakes hands with conductor Alfred Newman. Eighty-years ago this month, Chaplin recorded the music for Modern Times, his final silent film. The sessions were […]
Lunch on location “Most days we went to lunch at Musso and Frank’s, a nearby restaurant that is to this day one of my favorites. […]
From “Life With Charlie Chaplin” by David Raksin, Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress, Summer 1983
This sketch was drawn by Chaplin in 1935 when working on the score for Modern Times and presented to his musical assistant David Raksin. From […]
L-R: Charles Dunworth (asst. to Alfred Newman), Alfred Newman (conductor, uncle of Randy Newman), CC, David Raksin (arranger), Paul Neal (recording engineer), and Edward Powell […]
From “Life With Charlie Chaplin” by David Raksin (Chaplin’s musical assistant on Modern Times) Quarterly Journal Of The Library Of Congress, Summer 1983: I loved […]
Charlie and I lived together, sharing the same room, for more than two years, and many’s the time we cooked our dinners in our room. […]
Source: “David Raksin: A Composer In Hollywood” by Jon Newsom, Quarterly Journal Of The Library of Congress, 1978