Chaplin's comic performance, however, was singled out for praise in many of the reviews.

Although the film was criticized for taking dramatic licence with some aspects of Chaplin's life, Downey's performance as Chaplin won almost universal acclaim.

Austin's best known performance may be in Chaplin's short The Pawnshop.

Vincent Canby praised Chaplin's " superb " performance.

Chaplin's version is also known as The Nonsense Song, as his character has to sing it in gibberish ( due to losing the shirt cuff on which the lyrics were written, and thus having to make up the lyrics on the spot ).

The song " Hold the Fort " " Storm the Fort ", a Knights of Labor pro-labor revision of the hymn by the same name, became the most popular labor song prior to Ralph Chaplin's IWW anthem " Solidarity Forever ".

Chaplin's final speech was used as an intro to punk band The Menzingers ' 2007 song, " Cold Weather Gear ".

Modern Times was the first film where Chaplin's voice is heard as he performs Léo Daniderff's comical song Je cherche après Titine.

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 song " Biscuit Hammer " contains a reference to The Great Dictator, Charlie Chaplin's first film to employ spoken dialog.

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

According to David Robinson, unlike in more conventional slapstick comedies, the comic moments in Chaplin's films centred on the Tramp's attitude to the things happening to him: the humour did not come from the Tramp bumping into a tree but from his lifting of his hat to the tree in apology.

Although this can be seen as social commentary, Chaplin's films did not contain overt political themes or messages until later on his career in the 1930s.

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.

This joke may have its origins in Charlie Chaplin, who once did enter a look-alike contest and is often reported to have also come in third, although Chaplin's actual ranking in the contest is not known.

Chaplin's films did not always portray the Tramp as a vagrant, however.

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.

Chaplin's son Sydney, who also appeared in the film, said that even if some of Keaton's best scenes were cut ( which he did not believe ), the storyline would not logically allow a supporting actor to suddenly appear and upstage the climactic comeback of Chaplin's character.

The Great Dictator does, however, feature several silent scenes more in-keeping with Chaplin's previous films.

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 ).

Chaplin's next release was war-based, placing the Tramp in the trenches for Shoulder Arms.

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.

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 was widely noted that Hitler wore the same toothbrush moustache as the Tramp, and it was this physical resemblance that formed the basis of Chaplin's story.

* " Chaplin's Little Tramp, an Everyman Trying to Gild Cage of Life, Enthralled World " Obituary at the New York Times, 26 December 1977

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.

The 2002 TV documentary on the making of the film, The Tramp and the Dictator, presented newly discovered footage of the film production ( shot by Chaplin's elder half-brother Sydney ) which showed Chaplin's initial attempts at the film's ending, filmed before the fall of France.

There is no consensus on the relationship between the film's Jewish barber and Chaplin's earlier Tramp character, but the trend is to view the barber as a variation on the theme.

" DVD reviewer Mark Bourne bows to Chaplin's earlier statement: " Granted, the barber bears more than a passing resemblance to the Tramp, even affecting the familiar bowler hat and cane.

In Boom and Bust: American Cinema in the 1940s, Thomas Schatz writes of " Chaplin's Little Tramp transposed into a meek Jewish barber ", while, in Hollywood in Crisis: Cinema and American Society, 1929-1939, Colin Shindler writes that " The universal Little Tramp is transmuted into a specifically Jewish barber whose country is about to be absorbed into the totalitarian empire of Adenoid Hynkel.

* Charles Chaplin's most famous comic invention The Tramp

The officials of a city are dedicating a new statue, but when it is unveiled, Chaplin's Tramp is discovered sleeping on it.

McCrea does parody Chaplin's " Little Tramp " character earlier in the film.

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.

The outfit signified life's fragility and Bip became his alter ego, just as the " Little Tramp " became Charlie Chaplin's.

The landmark film of the Chaplin series is The Tramp ( 1915 ), in which Chaplin's vagabond character finds work on a farm and is smitten with the farmer's daughter.

Although he wears a moustache, Chaplin's characterization in this movie is distinctly different from that of his beloved " Little Tramp ".

IBM — which likely timed its announcement to hurt competitors ' sales during Christmas — reportedly spent $ 40 million on PCjr advertising, which used Charlie Chaplin's iconic character " The Tramp ", already used in a successful campaign for the IBM PC, to link the two products together.

The Little Tramp, also known as The Tramp ( Charlot in several languages ) was Charlie Chaplin's most memorable on-screen character, a recognized icon of world cinema most dominant during the silent film era.

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:

When Chaplin's contract came up for renewal at the end of the year, he asked for $ 1, 000 a week.

Behind the Screen and The Rink finished off Chaplin's releases for 1916.

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.

Six of Chaplin's films have been selected for preservation in the National Film Registry: The Immigrant ( 1917 ), The Kid ( 1921 ), The Gold Rush ( 1925 ), City Lights ( 1931 ), Modern Times ( 1936 ), and The Great Dictator ( 1940 ).

( Reliable box office figures for certain early films such as Birth of a Nation and Charlie Chaplin's comedies are unavailable.

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.

James L. Neibaur has noted that among the many parallels that Chaplin noted between his own life and Hitler's was an affinity for Wagner's music, and Chaplin's general fondness for Wagner has also been noted in studies of Chaplin's overall use of film music.

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

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.