After achieving fame, he founded a short-lived music company, the Charles Chaplin Music Corporation, through which he published some of his own compositions, such as " Oh, That Cello!

Since 2011 the town has also been host to the annual Charlie Chaplin Comedy Film Festival, which was founded to celebrate Chaplin's legacy and to showcase new comic talent.

In 1919 along with Charlie Chaplin, her husband Douglas Fairbanks, and D. W. Griffith she founded United Artists giving her complete control over her films.

The original studio of that name was founded in 1919 by D. W. Griffith, Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, and Douglas Fairbanks.

The Society of Independent Motion Picture Producers was founded in 1941 by Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin, Walt Disney, Orson Welles, Samuel Goldwyn, David O. Selznick, Alexander Korda, and Walter Wanger – many of the same people who were members of United Artists.

United Artists Theaters has its roots in the movie studio of the same name founded by Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin, and D. W. Griffith, but legally has always been separate from it.

It was planned as such by Joseph Schenck, CEO of United Artists at the time it was founded, but UA's owners ( including Mary Pickford and Charles Chaplin ) were against becoming involved in exhibition.

Chaplin founded a midwifery school in Tokyo, but later returned to private practice in London.

Karno selected his new star to join a fraction of the company that toured North America's vaudeville circuit ; he also signed Chaplin to a new contract, which doubled his pay.

Chaplin recalled: " I had a disquieting feeling of sinking back into a depressing commonplaceness ", and was therefore " elated " when a new tour began in October.

Chaplin thought the Keystone comedies " a crude mélange of rough and rumble ", but liked the idea of working in films and justified, " Besides, it would mean a new life ".

With the new year, however, Chaplin began to demand more time.

The star's primary concern in finding a new distributor was independence ; Sydney Chaplin, then his business manager, told the press: " Charlie be allowed all the time he needs and all the money for producing the way he wants ...

Frustrated with their lack of concern for quality, Chaplin joined forces with Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, and D. W. Griffith to form a new distribution company — United Artists, established in January 1919.

Chaplin was eager to start with the new company, and offered to buy out his contract with First National.

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

Chaplin was cynical about this new medium and the technical shortcomings it presented, believing that " talkies " lacked the artistry of silent films.

It was these concerns that stimulated Chaplin to develop his new film.

The first of the re-releases was The Chaplin Revue ( 1959 ), which included new versions of A Dog's Life, Shoulder Arms and The Pilgrim, and How to Make Movies, a film he had made in 1918 to show his new studio and which had never before been released.

Despite the setbacks, Chaplin was soon writing a new film script, The Freak, a story of a winged girl found in South America, which he intended as a starring vehicle for his daughter, Victoria Chaplin.

After their criticism of Charlie Chaplin and split with the movement, the Ultra-Lettrists continued to cause disruptions when they showed their new hypergraphical techniques.

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 1967, Chaplin composed a new musical score for the film and a recording of him singing " Swing High Little Girl " playing over the opening credits.

Chaplin was the studio's biggest moneymaker, and Essanay resorted to creating " new " Chaplin comedies from file footage and out-takes.

In short order, a new building was built on the same site, and soon Harrods extended credit for the first time to its best customers, among them Oscar Wilde, Lillie Langtry, Ellen Terry, Charlie Chaplin, Noël Coward, Gertrude Lawrence, Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh, Sigmund Freud, A.

A new film adaption, The Monk, was made by French-German director Dominik Moll in 2011, it was shot in Madrid and stars Vincent Cassel, Déborah François, Geraldine Chaplin, and Sergi López i Ayats.

Chaplin reissued the edited film with a new musical score — replacing the original score by Louis F. Gottschalk -- in 1976, a year before his death.

From October 1903 to June 1904, Chaplin toured with Saintsbury in Charles Frohman's production of Sherlock Holmes.

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

Chaplin felt that marriage stunted his creativity, and he struggled over the production of his next film, Sunnyside.

It soon occurred to Chaplin that it was turning into a large project, so to placate First National he halted production and quickly filmed A Day's Pleasure.

During production of the film Chaplin had been involved with the actress Pola Negri, a romantic pairing that received vast media interest.

Unwilling to allow his film to be drawn into the divorce proceedings, Chaplin announced that production on The Circus had been temporarily suspended.

Chaplin was nonetheless anxious about this decision, and would remain so throughout its production.

It was a challenging production that lasted 21 months, with Chaplin later confessing that he " had worked himself into a neurotic state of wanting perfection ".

This combination of story improvisation and relentless perfectionism — which resulted in days of effort and thousands of feet of film being wasted, all at enormous expense — often proved very taxing for Chaplin, who in frustration would often lash out at his actors and crew, keep them waiting idly for hours or, in extreme cases, shutting down production altogether.

In 1919, Pickford — along with D. W. Griffith, Charlie Chaplin, and Douglas Fairbanks — formed the independent film production company United Artists.

Having grown up in Hollywood, the son of a studio production manager and grandson of a silent film director, Edwards had watched the films of the great silent clowns, including Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, and Laurel and Hardy.

Famed French film director François Truffaut noted that early in the production, Chaplin said he would not play The Tramp in a sound film, and he considers the barber an entirely different character.

The extras feature color production footage shot by Chaplin ’ s half-brother Sydney, deleted barbershop sequence from Chaplin ’ s 1919 film Sunnyside, barbershop sequence from Sydney Chaplin ’ s 1921 film King, Queen, Joker, and The Tramp and the Dictator ( 2001 ), Kevin Brownlow and Michael Kloft ’ s documentary paralleling the lives of Chaplin and Hitler, including interviews with author Ray Bradbury, director Sidney Lumet, screenwriter Budd Schulberg, and others.

Discussing the making of the film in the documentary series Unknown Chaplin, Hale revealed that she had idolized Chaplin since childhood and that the final scene of the original version, in which the two kiss, reflected the state of their relationship by that time ( Chaplin's marriage to Lita Grey having collapsed during production of the film ).

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.

In late 1914 Essanay succeeded in hiring Charlie Chaplin away from Mack Sennett's Keystone Studios, offering Chaplin a higher salary and his own production unit.

He quickly rose in film production as an assistant director, and worked with Jean Renoir, Abraham Polonsky, Joseph Losey and Charlie Chaplin, with the latter as an assistant on Limelight.

A speculation over this case was that it was a conspiracy from Nazi Germany to discredit Chaplin ; À Nous la Libertés production company,, was German.

While deals at HBO and ABC did not lead to production of a film, Axelman introduced Stein to Keith Carradine and Alan Rudolph, director of the movie " The Moderns " with ultimately starred John Lone, Géraldine Chaplin, Keith Carradine and Linda Fiorentino.