Chaplin has also been the subject of a musical, Limelight – The Story of Charlie Chaplin by Christopher Curtis and Thomas Meehan, which was performed at the La Jolla Playhouse in 2010.

He acted as a pallbearer, and performed the song Smile by Charlie Chaplin, which was believed to be his brother's favorite song, in tribute.

* Funny Girl ( Capitol, 1964 ) performed by the original Broadway cast with Barbra Streisand & Sydney Chaplin

Chaplin tended to work with a repertory company of actors who performed exclusively in Chaplin's films.

The pairing of Chaplin and Buster Keaton in the final musical number is historic for being the only time the two performed together on film.

Some actors, for example Kane Hodder, Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Bruce Lee, Jet Li, Jayan, Donnie Yen, James Garner, Barrett Snow, Burt Reynolds, Johnny Yong Bosch, Tom Cruise, Steve McQueen, Angelina Jolie, Michelle Yeoh, Maggie Q, Christopher Lee, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Patrick Swayze, Thora Birch, Milla Jovovich, Bridgette Wilson, Jason Statham, Dolph Lundgren, " Stone Cold " Steve Austin, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Viggo Mortensen, are known to have performed their own stunts.

In one such show in 1906, a young Charlie Chaplin performed as part of an act called The Eight Lancashire Lads.

The other songs performed were Smile ( Though, Your Heart is Breaking ), Eye of the Tiger accompanied by sketches of Charlie Chaplin and a boxer.

" This Is My Song " is a song written by Charlie Chaplin in 1966 and performed by Petula Clark.

The show was first performed in the UK by Imagine Production in Preston and was endorsed by Richard Attenborough, director of the biopic Chaplin.

The San Francisco theater connections of father and son meant the Graumans knew people like Charlie Chaplin and Mary Pickford, as the stars had performed at one of the Grauman theaters when they were on their way up.

Blondie Chaplin performed the song during the 1973 tour.

The play is similar to the film The Great Dictator ( 1940 ), which also featured an absurd parody of Hitler by Charlie Chaplin.

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.

Although his memoirs frequently refer to the barber as the Little Tramp, Chaplin said in 1937 that he would not play the Little Tramp in his sound pictures.

Chaplin had interviewed several actresses to play the blind flower girl but could not find an actress that he liked.

Chaplin hired Keystone actor Hank Mann to play the Tramp's opponent.

In 1992, he starred as Charlie Chaplin in Chaplin, a role for which he prepared extensively, learning how to play the violin and tennis left-handed.

It would play an important role in developing slapstick comedy as the home to the Keystone Cops, English actor Charlie Chaplin, and others.

Chaplin continued to play the Tramp through dozens of short films and, later, feature-length productions ( in only a handful of other productions did he play characters other than the Tramp ).

Goddard was portrayed by Diane Lane in the 1992 film Chaplin, and by actress Natalie Wilder in the 2011 play Puma, written by Julie Gilbert, who had also written the joint biography, Opposite Attraction: The Lives of Erich Maria Remarque and Paulette Goddard.

Another story suggests that although the script had yet to be written, Welles wanted Chaplin to play the lead role.

In 1964, Chaplin allowed Verdoux to be re-released along with several Chaplin films to play at the New York Plaza as part of a Chaplin film festival.

While touring Britain to promote the film Chaplin learned that he had been refused a re-entry visa to the United States because of his alleged communist sympathies, and many American theaters refused to play Limelight.

Chaplin and Sterling play two young men, Masher and Rival Masher, who fight over the chance to help a young woman ( Clifton ) cross a muddy street.

Oona Chaplin was announced to play a character named Jeyne in the HBO adaptation of the novels, which many fans thought to mean she was cast for Jeyne Westerling.

He was on stage with his brother, Sydney Chaplin in the play Ethan Frome at the Circle Theatre, now named El Centro Theatre.

Silent film versions of the play were released in 1915 and 1925, the latter featuring Sydney Chaplin ( brother of Charlie Chaplin ) and Ethel Shannon.

* 1972 – Actor Charlie Chaplin returns to the United States for the first time since being labeled a communist during the Red Scare in the early 1950s.

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 was identified with left-wing politics during the McCarthy era and he was ultimately forced to resettle in Europe from 1952.

Some time later, Chaplin revealed that they married in Canton during this trip.

That Chaplin was unprepared to remain abroad, or that the revocation of his right to re-enter the United States was a surprise to him, may be apocryphal: An anecdote in some contradiction is recorded during a broad interview with Richard Avedon, celebrated New York portraitist.

Robinson writes that it is possible the Chaplin experienced a series of minor strokes during his convalescence, which marked the beginning of a slow decline in his health.

Chaplin received several awards and recognitions during his lifetime, especially during his later career in the 1960s and the 1970s.

The comedian Charlie Chaplin was one of the last silent film hold-outs, and his films during the 1930s were devoid of dialogue, although they did employ sound effects.

Building on its later popularity in the nineteenth and early twentieth-century ethnic routines of the American vaudeville house, the style was explored extensively during the " golden era " of black and white, silent movies directed by figures Mack Sennett and Hal Roach and featuring such notables as Charlie Chaplin, Laurel and Hardy, the Marx Brothers, the Keystone Kops, Gumball ( TV series ) the Three Stooges and El Chavo.

To add to that, some audiences had come to expect Chaplin to make silent films even during the sound era.

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 precursor to modern-day Perryville was Harbeson's Station, a fort alongside the Chaplin River, settled during the final stages of the American Revolution.

The film is structured around lengthy flashbacks as the elderly Chaplin ( now living in Switzerland ) recollects moments from his life during a conversation with fictional character George Hayden ( Anthony Hopkins ), the editor of his autobiography.

Felix in Hollywood, a short released during this year, plays upon Felix's popularity, as he becomes acquainted with such fellow celebrities as Douglas Fairbanks, Cecil B. DeMille, Charlie Chaplin, Ben Turpin, and even censor Will H. Hays.

The four signatories of the Chaplin tract ( Debord and Wolman, together with Jean-Louis Brau and Serge Berna ) agreed on a constitution for the group during a visit to Aubervilliers ( where Brau's father lived ).

Birthday Girl ( a 1998 film starring Nicole Kidman and Ben Chaplin ) features Hemel Hempstead prominently during scenes showing the main character going to and from his place of work ( a fictional bank somewhere in Bank Court ).

* 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.

Working with Camm at Hawker were Sir Frederick Page ( later to design the English Electric Lightning ), Leslie Appleton ( later to design the advanced Fairey Delta 2 and Britain's first air-to-air missile, the Fairey Fireflash ), Stuart Davies ( joined Avro in 1936 and later to be chief designer of the Avro Vulcan ), Roy Chaplin ( became Chief Designer at Hawker in 1957 ) and Sir Robert Lickley ( Chief Project Engineer during the war, and later to be Chief Engineer at Fairey ).

Chaplin and Purviance were romantically involved during the making of his Essanay, Mutual, and First National films of 1915 – 1917.

* Doordarshan also telecast English cartoons at 12. 00 noon during summer vacations in a programme named " Fun Time " which showed cartoons like Spider-Man, Giant Robo, Gayab Aaya, Guchhae, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, Jungle Book Shonen Mowgli ( a dubbed Hindi version of a Japanese anime with original music composed by Vishal Bharadwaj ), Talespin & Duck Tales also the comic plays of Charlie Chaplin, Laurel & Hardy and Didi's Comedy Show.

Welles sought to direct the film with Chaplin as star, but Chaplin backed out at the last minute, on the grounds that he'd never been directed by somebody else in a full length feature film before and wasn't willing to start ( which was not technically correct since he was directed in one feature film during his Keystone days.

Chaplin was subjected to unusually hostile treatment by the press while promoting the opening of the film, and some boycotts took place during its short run.