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Production on The Circus resumed, and the film was completed in October 1927.

It was released the following January to a positive reception.

At the 1st Academy Awards, Chaplin was given a special award " For versatility and genius in acting, writing, directing and producing The Circus.

" The Lita Grey affair was soon forgotten, but Chaplin was deeply affected by it: the stress of the ordeal turned his hair white, and both his second wife and The Circus received only a passing mention in his autobiography.

He permanently associated the film with this stress and misery, and struggled to work on it in his later years.