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Chaplin's and first
Chaplin's first stage appearance came at five years old, when he took over from his mother one night in Aldershot.
Caught in the Rain ( issued 4 May 1914 ), Chaplin's first directed picture, was among Keystone's most successful releases to date.
The Kid ( 1921 film ) | The Kid ( 1921 ), with Jackie Coogan, combined comedy with drama and was Chaplin's first film to exceed an hour.
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.
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 followed only a few months after Hollywood's first parody of Hitler, the short subject You Nazty Spy by the Three Stooges, although Chaplin had been planning it for years before.
The film was Chaplin's first true talking picture and helped shake off accusations of Luddism following his previous release, the mostly dialogue-free Modern Times, released in 1936 when the silent era had all but ended in the late 1920s.
The Gold Rush was the first of Chaplin's classic silents that he converted to a sound version in this fashion.
Modern Times was the first film where Chaplin's voice is heard as he performs Léo Daniderff's comical song Je cherche après Titine.
This was Chaplin's first overtly political-themed film, and its unflattering portrayal of industrial society generated controversy in some quarters upon its initial release.
* February 2-Charlie Chaplin's first film, Making a Living is released.
The original idea behind his 2009 show, Hitler Moustache, was to see if he " could reclaim the toothbrush moustache for comedy – it was Chaplin's first, then Hitler ruined it.
* The 1940 comedy The Great Dictator was Charlie Chaplin's first talkie and his most commercially successful film.
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.
Chaplin used not one, but two similar-looking characters to the Tramp in The Great Dictator ( released October 15, 1940 ); however, this was an all-talking film ( Chaplin's first ).
She had no children from any of her marriages, though she was the first step-mother to Charlie Chaplin's sons Charles Chaplin, Jr. and Sydney Chaplin whose mother was Lita Grey.
The expression first appeared in Stewart Chaplin's short story " Stained Glass Political Platform " ( published in 1900 in The Century Magazine ), in which they were referred to as " words that suck the life out of the words next to them, just as a weasel sucks the egg and leaves the shell ".
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.
On March 12, 1916, the Herald published Segar's first comic, Charlie Chaplin's Comedy Capers, which ran for a little over a year.
This was the first feature film in which Chaplin's character bore no resemblance to his famous " Tramp " character ( The Great Dictator did not feature the Tramp, but his " Jewish barber " bore sufficient similarity ), and consequently was poorly received in America when it first premiered.
His mother Blanche Louise was Charlie Chaplin's first cousin.
The Bad Boy was released on February 18, and featured Robert Harron, Richard Cummings, Josephine Crowell, and Mildred Harris ( who would later become Charles Chaplin's first wife ).
Little Tramp received its first staging in 1995 at the prestigious Eugene O ' Neill Theater Festival in Waterford, Connecticut ( Eugene O ' Neill having been the father of Chaplin's wife, Oona O ' Neill ).

Chaplin's and major
A major fire broke out at Chaplin's studios in September, delaying production for a month.
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 other major difference between this and most of Chaplin's other work is that the film is supposed to be a serious drama.
Austin's encouragement was a major influence on Chaplin's subsequent career as an artist.

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

Chaplin's and King
He also had a supporting part as a TV advertisement producer in Charlie Chaplin's A King in New York ( 1957 ) and played Master Henry in Outlaw Money an episode of The Adventures of Robin Hood.
Chaplin's half-brother Sydney Chaplin directed and starred in a 1921 film called King, Queen, Joker in which, like Charlie, he played the dual role of a barber and ruler of a country who is about to be overthrown.

Chaplin's and New
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.
The following year, in November 1963, the Plaza Theater in New York started a year-long series of Chaplin's films, including Monsieur Verdoux and Limelight, which now gained excellent reviews from American critics.
In 2010 the New York Guitar Festival commissioned new scores on some of Chaplin's silent films from a number of contemporary artists, including Justin Vernon of Bon Iver, Marc Ribot, David Bromberg, and Alex de Grassi.
* " Chaplin's Little Tramp, an Everyman Trying to Gild Cage of Life, Enthralled World " Obituary at the New York Times, 26 December 1977

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