The court dismissed this claim since he had failed to fulfil his contract requirements, but Chaplin subsequently ensured that every contract he signed prohibited the alteration of his finished products.

Chaplin decided to record the runthrough in case anything was usable, and " by dumb luck we had managed to catch every movement, and that was the first and only ' take ' made of the scene, the one used in the finished picture ".

Chaplin finished shooting the sequence on July 29, 1929 with exteriors at Pasadena Bridge.

Chaplin had been shooting the film for a year and was only a little more than half way finished.

In July and August Chaplin finished up six weeks of smaller scenes for the film, including the two scenes of the Tramp being harrassed by newsboys, one of which was played by a young

Alongside acting, directing, writing, producing, and editing, Chaplin also composed the musical scores for his films.

In 1942, Chaplin released a new version of The Gold Rush, taking the original silent 1925 film and composing and recording a musical score, adding a narration which he recorded himself, and tightening the editing which reduced the film's running time by several minutes.

In 1959, having been editing The Chaplin Revue, Chaplin commented to a reporter ( regarding the Tramp character ) " I was wrong to kill him.

Chaplin strongly disliked the picture, but one review picked him out as " a comedian of the first water.

Having satisfied his First National contract, Chaplin was free to make his first picture for United Artists.

Chaplin intended it as a star-making vehicle for Edna Purviance, and did not appear in the picture himself other than in a brief, uncredited cameo.

With Georgia Hale his new leading lady, Chaplin began filming the picture in February 1924.

City Lights had been a success, but Chaplin was unsure if he could make another picture without dialogue.

" To mollify Avedon, Chaplin assured the photographer of his authenticity and added the comment, " If you want to take my picture, you'd better do it now.

D. W. Griffith, Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin ( seated ) and Douglas Fairbanks at the signing of the contract establishing United Artists motion picture studio in 1919.

In 1914 the motion picture Kid Auto Races at Venice starring Charlie Chaplin was shown in the cinemas.

Normand is played by actress Marisa Tomei in the 1992 film Chaplin, by Morganne Picard in the motion picture Return to Babylon ( 2008 ), and by Penelope Lagos in the first bio-pic about her life, a 35-minute dramatic short film entitled Madcap Mabel ( 2010 ).

This rare shot showed him surrounded by fellow band members including Bruce Johnston ( in his final group picture ), but not with either Ricky Fataar or Blondie Chaplin, both of whom are credited on the final album cover.

Granlund was also first to introduce trailer material for an upcoming motion picture, using a slide technique to promote an upcoming film featuring Charlie Chaplin at Loew's Seventh Avenue Theatre in Harlem in 1914.

Kid Auto Races At Venice is a 1914 American-made motion picture starring Charlie Chaplin in which his " Little Tramp " character makes his first appearance.

Even contemporary critics were muted in their enthusiasm, as evidenced by this mixed review from the December 8, 1919 New York Times :" Charlie Chaplin is screamingly funny in his latest picture, A Day's Pleasure, at the Strand, when he tries in vain to solve the mysteries of a collapsible deck chair.

A few of the notable earlier residents of Wilshire Park include popular star of the silent movie era Mildred Harris ( who became notorious as the 16-year-old child bride of Charles Chaplin ), headline-making Ziegfeld beauty and screen actress Helen Lee Worthing who appeared with John Barrymore in the film Don Juan, motion picture star Tom Mix, an executive secretary to 29th U. S. President Warren G. Harding, a CEO of finance for the City of Los Angeles, the director of the Los Angeles County Hospital, the performer Ziegfeld Follies, RKO Studios dance director / choreographer Pearl Eaton, and motion picture director and an Academy Awards co-founder, Henry King.

Sir Charles Spencer " Charlie " Chaplin, KBE ( 16 April 188925 December 1977 ) was an English comic actor, film director and composer best known for his work during the silent film era.

Chaplin starred in the West End production at the Duke of York's Theatre from 17 October to 2 December 1905.

Chaplin arrived in Los Angeles, home of the Keystone studio, in early December 1913.

Chaplin also concentrated on his family, to which he and Oona added three more children, Jane Cecil ( b. 23 May 1957 ), Annette Emily ( b. 3 December 1959 ) and Christopher James ( b. 8 July 1962 ).

Chaplin died in his sleep from the complications of a stroke in the early morning of 25 December 1977 at his home in Switzerland.

Filming for City Lights officially began on December 27, 1928, after Chaplin and Carr had worked on the script for almost an entire year.

Chaplin was served with divorce papers by Lita Grey in December, and litigation delayed the release of the film for another year.

* December 29, Charlie Chaplin signs a contract with Mack Sennett to begin making films at Keystone Studios.

Although the LI had in fact already been covertly formed by Guy Debord and Gil J. Wolman in June 1952, even before the Chaplin intervention and the public split from Isou, it was not formally established until 7 December 1952.

Albert Austin ( 13 December 1881 or 1885 – 17 August 1953 ) was an actor, film star, director and script writer, noted mainly for his work in Charlie Chaplin films.

Henry Chaplin, 1st Viscount Chaplin PC ( 22 December 1840 – 29 May 1923 ) was a British landowner, racehorse owner and Conservative Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1868 until 1916 when he was raised to the peerage.

John Woodman Higgins was born to Milton Prince Higgins ( December 7, 1842-March 8, 1912 ) and Katharine Elizabeth ( Chaplin ) Higgins.

Lita Grey ( April 15, 1908 – December 29, 1995 ) was an American actress and the second wife of Charlie Chaplin.

From March to April 1930 Chaplin shot the scenes inside of the millionaire's house at the Town House on Wilshire Boulevard.

In the late spring of 1930 Chaplin shot the last major comedy sequence in the film: the boxing match.

The reference to drugs seen in the prison sequence is somewhat daring for the time ( since the production code, established in 1930, forbade the depiction of illegal drug use in films ); Chaplin had made drug references before in one of his most famous short films, Easy Street, released in 1917.

* Sergei Eisenstein prepared a screenplay in the late 1920s which he hoped to have produced by Paramount or by Charlie Chaplin during Eisenstein's stay in Hollywood in 1930.

* David Robinson ( film critic ) ( born 1930 ), British film writer and historian, biographer of Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton

`` Behind that Charlie Chaplin moustache and that truant lock of hair that always covered his forehead, behind the tirades and the sulky silences, the passionate orations and the occasional dull evasive stare, behind the prejudices, the cynicism, the total amorality of behavior, behind even the tendency to great strategic mistakes, there lay a statesman of no mean qualities: Shrewd, calculating, in many ways realistic, endowed -- like Stalin -- with considerable powers of dissimulation, capable of playing his cards very close to his chest when he so desired, yet bold and resolute in his decisions, and possessing one gift Stalin did not possess: The ability to rouse men to fever pitch of personal devotion and enthusiasm by the power of the spoken word ''.

In September 1898, Hannah Chaplin was committed to Cane Hill mental asylum — she had developed a psychosis seemingly brought on by malnutrition and an infection of syphilis.

Charles Chaplin Sr. was by then a severe alcoholic, and life with the man was bad enough to provoke a visit from the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.

In November 1914, Chaplin appeared in the first feature length comedy film, Tillie's Punctured Romance, directed by Sennett.

With their careful construction — and in the case of Easy Street and The Immigrant, their social commentary — these films are considered by Chaplin scholars to be among his finest work.

The same year, a study by the Boston Society for Psychical Research concluded that Chaplin was " an American obsession.

Chaplin built a story around the idea of walking a tightrope while besieged by monkeys, which became the film's " climactic incident ", and turned The Tramp into the accidental star of a circus.

Chaplin was reported to be in the state of a nervous breakdown, as the story became headline news and pirated copies of the document were read by the public.

" 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.

Modern Times was announced by Chaplin as " a satire on certain phases of our industrial life.

Deeply disturbed by the surge of militaristic nationalism in 1930s world politics, Chaplin found that he could not keep these issues out of his work: " How could I throw myself into feminine whimsy or think of romance or the problems of love when madness was being stirred up by a hideous grotesque, Adolf Hitler?

Chaplin decided not to re-enter the United States, writing: " Since the end of the last world war, I have been the object of lies and propaganda by powerful reactionary groups who, by their influence and by the aid of America's yellow press, have created an unhealthy atmosphere in which liberal-minded individuals can be singled out and persecuted.

Chaplin continued being a subject to political controversy throughout the 1950s, especially as he was awarded the International Peace Prize by the Communist World Peace Council and lunched with Chou En-Lai in 1954, and when he briefly met Nikita Khrushchev in 1956.

Its protagonist is an exiled king, played by Chaplin, who arrives in New York with a plan to use nuclear energy for peaceful purposes.

Chaplin was deeply hurt by the negative reaction to his film.

Although Chaplin still had plans for future film projects, he was by now very frail.

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.

Chaplin believed his first influence to be his mother, who would entertain him as a child by sitting at the window and mimicking passers-by.

Due to his complete independence as a filmmaker, Chaplin has been identified by Andrew Sarris as one of the first auteur filmmakers.

Chaplin could be inspired by tragic events when creating his films, as in the case of The Gold Rush ( 1925 ), which was inspired by the fate of the Donner Party.