The film was re-cut and expanded by the studio without Chaplin's consent, leading the star to seek an injunction in May 1916.

The Kid ( 1921 film ) | The Kid ( 1921 ), with Jackie Coogan, combined comedy with drama and was Chaplin's first film to exceed an hour.

The event seems to have influenced Chaplin's work, as he planned a film that turned the Tramp into the carer of a young boy.

Dealing with issues of poverty and parent – child separation, The Kid is thought to be influenced by Chaplin's own childhood and was the first film to combine comedy and drama.

It contains some of Chaplin's most famous gags, such as the Tramp eating his shoe and the " Dance of the Rolls ", and he later said it was the film he would most like to be remembered for.

It is often referred to as Chaplin's finest accomplishment, and film critic James Agee believed the closing scene to be " the greatest piece of acting and the highest moment in movies ".

Chaplin's performance of a gibberish song did, however, give the Tramp a voice for the only time on film.

Today, the film is seen by the British Film Institute as one of Chaplin's " great features ", while David Robinson says it shows the star at " his unrivalled peak as a creator of visual comedy.

Although some of Chaplin's critics have claimed that credit for his film music should be given to the composers who worked with him, for example Raksin, who worked with Chaplin on Modern Times, has stressed Chaplin's creative position and active participation in the composing process.

* From 1917 to 1918, silent film actor Billy West made more than 20 films as a comedian precisely imitating Chaplin's tramp character, makeup and costume.

* John Woo directed a parody film of Chaplin's " The Kid " called Hua ji shi dai ( 1981 ), also known as " Laughing Times.

Richard Attenborough directed a film on Chaplin's life, Chaplin ( 1992 ), which starred Robert Downey, Jr. as Chaplin and also included Chaplin's oldest daughter Geraldine Chaplin playing his mother, Hannah Chaplin.

Although the film had originally been released in 1952, due to Chaplin's political difficulties at the time, it did not play for one week in Los Angeles, and thus did not meet the criterion for nomination until it was re-released in 1972.

In addition to composing new film scores, Timothy Brock has restored many of Charlie Chaplin's scores.

An early notable war film is Charlie Chaplin's Shoulder Arms made in 1918.

Among Loren's best-known films of this period are Samuel Bronston's epic production of El Cid ( 1961 ) with Charlton Heston, The Millionairess ( 1960 ) with Peter Sellers, It Started in Naples ( 1960 ) with Clark Gable, Vittorio De Sica's triptych Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow ( 1963 ) with Marcello Mastroianni, Peter Ustinov's Lady L ( 1965 ) with Paul Newman, the 1966 classic Arabesque with Gregory Peck, and Charlie Chaplin's final film, A Countess from Hong Kong ( 1967 ) with Marlon Brando.

Having been the only Hollywood film maker to continue to make silent films well into the period of sound films, this was Chaplin's first true talking picture as well as his most commercially successful film.

Chaplin's film advanced a stirring, controversial condemnation of Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini's fascism, antisemitism, and the Nazis, whom he excoriates in the film as " machine men, with machine minds and machine hearts ".

It is suspected Chaplin's decision to go ahead with making The Great Dictator was finalized by his viewing of Riefenstahl's film.

The document, which ran to an exceptional 52 pages, not only sought heavy material gains but was designed to ruin Chaplin's public image.

This was already noted by Chaplin's contemporaries, such as Sigmund Freud, who thought that Chaplin " always plays only himself as he was in his dismal youth ", and by some of his collaborators, such as actress Claire Bloom, who starred in Limelight.

Film critic Danel Griffin believes that Duck Soup is " on par with other war comedies like Chaplin's The Great Dictator and Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove, only slightly more unnerving in that Duck Soup doesn't seem to realize it is anything more than innocent fluff.

The ringmaster of an impoverished circus hires Chaplin's Little Tramp as a clown, but discovers that he can only be funny unintentionally, not on purpose.

Chaplin's stock company at Essanay included Ben Turpin, who disliked working with the meticulous Chaplin and only appeared with him in a couple of films ; ingenue Edna Purviance, who became his off-screen sweetheart as well ; Leo White, almost always playing a fussy continental villain ; and all-purpose authority figures Bud Jamison and John Rand.

Welles later expressed regret at his only being credited with the idea, since he maintained that most of the final film was a verbatim copy of his script, with Chaplin's only major writing contribution being the gallows scenes.

The years before World War II cover Chaplin's birth into a large working-class family, his early love of drawing, the accident which left him with only one eye, and his apprenticeship in a large printing works.

Known in his lifetime only to a small number of collectors, Chaplin's work is now being discovered by a wider public.

He played in a few pictures, including Chaplin's A Woman of Paris ( a rare drama for Chaplin, in which his character of The Tramp does not appear ) and made a huge impression in the operetta Dédé.

Despite a few silent scenes, including one where the barber is wearing the tramps ' coat and bowler hat and carrying his cane, the barber speaks throughout the film ( using Chaplin's own British accent ), including the passionate plea for peace that has been widely interpreted as Chaplin speaking as himself.

A good view of the street during this period is to be found in Charlie Chaplin's 1921 film The Kid, which featured a number of scenes in it, mostly on the west side a few doors north of the Pelanconi House.

After a few months the soundbites of Judge Milian's voice were dropped from the opening, and the wording of Curt Chaplin's introduction was slightly changed:

Chaplin's cement footprints are one of the few reminders of the past.

The child was taken by Dryden at six months old, and did not re-enter Chaplin's life for 30 years.

They had been there six months when Chaplin's manager received a telegram, asking " Is there a man named Chaffin in your company or something like that " with the request that that this comedian contact the New York Motion Picture Company.

Two months later, on 1 March 1978, Chaplin's coffin was dug up and stolen from its grave by two unemployed mechanics, Polish Roman Wardas and Bulgarian Gantcho Ganev, in an attempt to extort money from Chaplin's widow, Oona Chaplin.

Numerous problems and delays occurred, including a studio fire, the death of Chaplin's mother, as well as Chaplin's bitter divorce from his second wife Lita Grey, and the Internal Revenue Service's claims of Chaplin's owed back taxes, all of which culminated in filming being stalled for eight months.

* March 1-Charlie Chaplin's coffin is stolen from a Swiss cemetery three months after burial.

Moe's impersonation of Adolf Hitler highlighted these shorts, the first of which preceded Charlie Chaplin's controversial film satire, The Great Dictator, by months.

Actual filming took about three months, mainly in the Los Angeles area, including indoor scenes at Chaplin's studio.

Chaplin's first major project after A King in New York, his memoirs My Autobiography ( 1964 ), also became a bestseller despite receiving mixed reviews.

The honour had already been proposed in 1931 and 1956, but was vetoed after a Foreign Office report raised concerns over Chaplin's political views and private life ; it was felt that honouring him would damage both the reputation of the British honours system and relations with the United States.

They sued again after World War II ( considered revenge for Chaplin's later anti-Nazi statements in The Great Dictator ).

Chaplin's recollections begin with his childhood of extreme poverty, from which he escapes by immersing himself in the world of the London music halls, after which he relocates to the United States.

In The Great Dictator, Chaplin's first film after Modern Times, Chaplin plays the dual role of a Hitler-esque dictator, and a Jewish Barber.

“ What makes Modern Times decidedly different from Chaplin's previous three films are the political references and social realism that keep intruding into Charlie's world .” “ No comedian before or after him has spent more energy depicting people in their working lives .” “ Though there had been films depicting the lives of immigrants and urban workers, no filmmaker before Chaplin had created their experience so humanly and lovingly .”

The film and its dark themes were ill-suited to the American political and cultural climate of the time ( less than two years after World War II ended ), and Chaplin's popularity and public image had been irrevocably damaged by multiple scandals and political controversies prior to its release.

In fact Clark did not wish to record the song in English as she disliked the deliberately old fashioned lyrics which Chaplin refused to modify ; however after the translated versions of the song had been recorded there happened to be some time remaining on the session which Burke coaxed Clark to use to record Chaplin's lyrics.

The film was produced in Europe after Chaplin's exile from the US in 1952.