He was quickly replaced by Harry Myers, who Chaplin had known while under contract at Keystone Studios.

Chaplin fired Virginia Cherrill and replaced her with Georgia Hale, Chaplin's co-star in The Gold Rush.

Chaplin married Grey in mid-1924, and she was replaced in the film by Georgia Hale.

Initially, Henry Bergman played the bully-ish head waiter, but Chaplin eventually replaced him with Eric Campbell.

Original drummer Alexander ' Skip ' Spence had left the band in mid-1966, replaced by Los Angeles jazz drummer Dryden, a nephew of Charlie Chaplin.

When Clarice was replaced with Sherlock Holmes, Chaplin continued as Billy.

From 1994 to 1998 Womack played Mandy in the popular BBC Two sitcom Game On alongside Ben Chaplin ( later replaced by Neil Stuke ).

'" As theorized by David Bellos, Hulot may even represent an inversion of The Tramp: “ Hulot tilts forwards whereas Chaplin tilts back ; Chaplin ’ s puppet-like waddle is very different from Hulot ’ s ‘ springy glide ’; and there is a difference in costume too: the bowler, tails, huge pants, cane and cigarette are replaced by a pipe, various accessories, pants that are too short, a sports blazer and a Homburg, although the striped socks are borrowed from Keaton .”

With The Tramp, issued April 1915, Chaplin began to inject greater emotion into his pictures.

It was around this time that Chaplin began to conceive the Tramp as " a sort of Pierrot ", or sad clown.

Chaplin paid yet more concern to story construction, and began treating the Tramp as " a sort of Pierrot.

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.

Statue of Chaplin as the Tramp by John Doubleday in Leicester Square, London

In London, a statue of him as the Tramp was unveiled in Leicester Square in 1981 and a permanent exhibition on his life and career, Charlie Chaplin – The Great Londoner, opened at the London Film Museum in 2010.

* Charlie Chaplin débuts his trademark mustached, baggy-pants ' Little Tramp ' character in Kid Auto Races at Venice in 1914.

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.

Chaplin chose to capitalize on this resemblance in order to give his Little Tramp character a " reprieve ".

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.

However, Turner Classic Movies says that years later, Chaplin acknowledged a connection between the barber and The Tramp.

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.

" In his review of the film, Roger Ebert says that " Chaplin was technically not playing the Tramp ", but Ebert also states that, " He put the Little Tramp and $ 1. 5 million of his own money on the line to ridicule Hitler ".

But Chaplin was clear that the barber is not the Tramp and The Great Dictator is not a Tramp movie.

A full two-page discussion of the relationship between the barber and The Tramp appears in Eric L. Flom's book Chaplin in the Sound Era: An Analysis of the Seven Talkies in which he concludes:

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.

* Charlie Chaplin as A Tramp

Chaplin first thought of the film's famous final scene where the newly cured blind girl sees the Little Tramp for the first time.

Several months of unemployment followed, however, and Chaplin lived a solitary existence while lodging with a family in Kennington.

According to Avedon, Chaplin telephoned him at his studio in New York while on a layover before the final leg of his travel to England.

Sidney Drew was the leader in developing " polite comedy ", while slapstick was refined by Fatty Arbuckle and Charles Chaplin, who both started with Mack Sennet's Keystone company.

Many silent filmmakers such as Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton used improvisation in the making of their films, developing their gags while filming and altering the plot to fit.

The breakaway group felt that his work was no longer relevant, while having appreciated it " in its own time ," and asserted their belief " that the most urgent expression of freedom is the destruction of idols, especially when they claim to represent freedom ," in this case, filmmaker Charlie Chaplin.

The film begins aboard a steamer crossing the Atlantic Ocean, and initially showcases the misadventures of an unnamed immigrant, the Tramp ( Chaplin ) who finds himself in assorted mischief while, among other things, playing cards, eating in a mess hall, and avoiding seasick passengers.

His leg injury left him with a permanent limp, but allowed him to discover the cinema, where he used to recuperate with his leg elevated while watching the films of Charlie Chaplin and others.

Although Lloyd's individual films were not as commercially successful as Charlie Chaplin's on average, he was far more prolific ( releasing twelve feature films in the 1920s while Chaplin released just three ), and made more money overall ($ 15. 7 million to Chaplin's $ 10. 5 million ).

Chaplin was against the deal, but changed his mind in late 1952 when the US government revoked his re-entry visa while he was in London for the UK premiere of Limelight.

The character of the Tramp was originally created by accident while Chaplin was working at Mack Sennett's Keystone Studio.

Wilson initially suggested Charlie Chaplin or Adolf Hitler, whom Glass outright rejected, while Glass proposed Mahatma Gandhi ( later the central figure of his opera Satyagraha ).

Charlie Chaplin, Alfred Hitchcock, Orson Welles, Howard Hawks, John Ford, and many other forward-thinking film directors were held up in admiration while standard Hollywood films bound by traditional narrative flow were strongly criticized.

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.

A close associate of Chaplin claimed that Chaplin not only did not feel threatened by Keaton's performance, but also heavily edited his own footage of the duet while enhancing Keaton's.

Savill, Chaplin and Scott were left in a recording studio in Weston-super-Mare, and while waiting for Halstead's return recorded some " joke songs ".

Ralph Chaplin began writing “ Solidarity Forever ” in 1914, while he was covering the Kanawa coal miners ’ strike in Huntington, West Virginia.

Barnes noted that Chaplin " acts with spirit and force ," all the while " acting with a magnificently raw-voiced sincerity " in what was a performance of " surprising power.

The film takes place in a movie studio ; Chaplin plays a stagehand named David while Campbell, a large man, plays Goliath, his supervisor.

After Chaplin learns that Purviance is really a woman, he kisses her while on the set ; at this point, a male stagehand enters and, thinking that Chaplin has kissed a man, starts acting in an overtly effeminate way until Chaplin kicks him.