Following the media hype over the accession of Elizabeth II, the Treetops attracted a large number of rich and famous people every year, Some famous personalities who visited the Treetops before or after the accession of Elizabeth II are Charlie Chaplin, Joan Crawford and Lord Mountbatten, and a much-publicized return visit by Elizabeth II in 1983.

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 1917, Chaplin imitators were widespread enough for the star to take legal action, and it was reported that nine out of ten men attended costume parties dressed as Chaplin.

His Keystone credentials were good enough to get him steady work as a comedy director with other companies ; he directed many of Chaplin imitator Billy West's comedies, which featured a young Oliver Hardy as villain.

In both cases, apparently, he sincerely believed that his celebrity and his longtime friendship with Hollywood names such as Charlie Chaplin were enough to keep him from jail.

Mitchell Chaplin, a man living in a parallel world to ours, has been found guilty of the crime of " coldness "-of not being friendly or open enough with those around him.

Film distributors, fans and theater owners can't get enough of him (" Chaplin Films ").

Their debut EP Looks Like Chaplin did not have enough copies made to enter the charts and their next single Local Boy in the Photograph was one place shy of making the UK Top 50.

In a 1933 interview, Chaplin said he added the moustache to his costume because it had a comical appearance and was small enough so as not to hide his expression.

" There was nothing we could do but accept poor mother's fate ", Chaplin later wrote, and she remained in care until her death in 1928.

Karno was initially wary, thinking Chaplin a " pale, puny, sullen-looking youngster " who " looked much too shy to do any good in the theatre.

Chaplin also wished to " do something more " than comedy, and — as Louvish says —" make his mark on a changed world.

" 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.

When Charlie Chaplin finally allowed the world to hear his voice after twenty years of pantomime, he chose CBS air to do it on

Although photographs of Grey exist in the role, documentaries such as Unknown Chaplin and Chaplin Today: The Gold Rush do not contain any film footage of her, indicating no such footage survives.

The common Japanese literati do not understand that the laugh of Chaplin is a contradictory tragedy ...

She possessed a rubbery face capable of the broadest expressions — Life magazine compared her to Beatrice Lillie and Charlie Chaplin, and described her characterizations as taking " people or situations suspended in their own precarious balance between dignity and absurdity, and push ( ing ) them over the cliff with one single, pointed gesture "— the magazine noted a " particularly high-brow critic " as observing, " The trouble with most comedians who try to do satire is that they are essentially brash, noisy and indelicate people who have to use a sledge hammer to smash a butterfly.

Al Jolson, Elsie Janis, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and Charlie Chaplin were among the celebrities that made public appearances promoting the idea that purchasing a liberty bond was " the patriotic thing to do " during the era.

In between, he had a significant role as ZaSu Pitts ' father in director Erich von Stroheim's acclaimed 1924 MGM production, Greed, although the part was cut from the film and the footage is now lost, and in 1928 in the Christie Film Company version of Tillie's Punctured Romance with W. C. Fields ( which had nothing to do with the 1914 Chaplin version, which Conklin had also appeared in, aside from the title ).

In 1952, Chaplin left the US for what was intended as a brief trip home to the United Kingdom for the London premiere of Limelight.

Shortly after the publication of his memoirs, Chaplin began work on what would be his final completed film, A Countess from Hong Kong ( 1967 ), based on a script he had written for Paulette Goddard in the 1930s.

This process, which could take months, would start with Chaplin describing to the composer ( s ) exactly what he wanted and singing or playing a tune he had come up with on the piano.

According to the Internet Movie Database, Chaplin, after being told Hitler saw the movie, replied: " I'd give anything to know what he thought of it.

According to Kevin Brownlow and David Gill's documentary series Unknown Chaplin, the first scenes to be written and filmed take place in what became the movie's second half, in which the penniless Tramp finds a coin and goes for a meal in a restaurant, not realising that the coin has fallen out of his pocket.

Actor Gene Wilder compared him to Charlie Chaplin in saying " no matter how farcical performance was ... there was always an element of reality to what he did.

The land called Windham consisted of what is now the towns of Windham ( which includes Willimantic ), Mansfield, Scotland, Chaplin, and Hampton.

There are a lot of references that are hard to miss, such as the fact that the little boy winds up being Charlie Chaplin, the detective is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle who goes on to writing the Sherlock Holmes mysteries and Roy talks about Zeppelins " taking off " and being a successful invention despite what will happen to the Hindenburg in 1937.

Some film historians have speculated about what the public's reaction would have been if they did not know A Woman of Paris did not star Chaplin — it may have been received much differently.

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.

Negri had met Chaplin while in Germany, and what began as a platonic relationship there became a well-publicized affair and marriage speculation which received the headline, " The Queen of Tragedy To Wed The King of Comedy ".

" Such hyperbole is somewhat disingenuous ; in 1915, Chaplin had begun work on Life, his first feature-length comedy, but the studio had stepped in and stopped the production as Chaplin was taking too long — what they really needed was one-reel subjects to fill then voracious public demand for Chaplin's work.

" Walter Kerr, in his seminal 1975 book The Silent Clowns, stated that the film was " worthless, except for what it can tell us about the vein Chaplin was tempted to explore in his own kind of feature.

If we see a big bum we might want to kick it: Chaplin does kick it ... Laurel and Hardy, the Marx Brothers, Boudu, and Hulot are the enemies of conformity, of what can be regulated.

In particular, the Mutual outtakes ( which Chaplin ordered destroyed due to content inappropriate for the time ) show his painstaking approach to developing comedic and dramatic ideas on film, examined in what director Brownlow described as an " archaeology of the cinema ".

Chaplin was not pleased with the widespread popularity of " Solidarity Forever " in the labor movement.

Chaplin worked hard and the act was popular with audiences, but dancing did not satisfy the child and he dreamt of forming a comedy act.

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 ".

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.

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

For two years Chaplin worked in the strike committee with Mother Jones for the bloody Kanawha County, West Virginia strike of coal miners in 1912-13.

In the early years of film, David Raksin worked as music ghostwriter and orchestrator for Charlie Chaplin ; even though Chaplin was credited as the score writer, he was considered to be a " hummer " ( pejorative film industry slang for a person who purports to be a film score composer but who in fact only gives a general idea of the melodies to a ghostwriter ).

Some famous celebrities ( such as Charlie Chaplin ) left the U. S .; other worked under pseudonyms ( such as Dalton Trumbo ).

In fact, among the young comedians who worked for him were Charlie Chaplin and Arthur Jefferson, who later adopted the name of Stan Laurel.

Following the success of Modern Times, Chaplin planned other projects with Goddard in mind as a co-star, but he worked slowly and Goddard worried that the public might forget about her if she did not continue to make regular film appearances.

He was one of a number of writers who worked on Chaplin ( 1992 ).

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.

Before meeting, the pair had never worked together on stage ( they did as of 1940 ), though both had worked in vaudeville — Stan Laurel with Charlie Chaplin as part of Fred Karno's Army and Oliver Hardy as a singer.

While continuing as a film music supervisor, Chaplin became an associate producer in the early ' 60s and worked on such major features as Can-Can ( 1960 ), West Side Story ( 1961 ), I Could Go On Singing ( 1963 ), The Sound of Music ( 1965 ), STAR!

Chaplin worked with and was friends with most of the major songwriters and performers of his era, such as Cole Porter, Ira Gershwin, Al Jolson, Leonard Bernstein, Judy Garland, Gene Kelly, Phil Silvers, Julie Andrews, Frank Sinatra and others.

Chaplin was married to Betty Levin, who worked as script supervisor on The Sound of Music.

After working with other Swedish directors, including Alf Sjöberg on The Judge ( 1960 ) and Mai Zetterling on Loving Couples ( 1964 ), he then worked in the United States and elsewhere, on: Richard Fleischer's The Last Run ( 1971 ); Louis Malle's Black Moon ( 1975 ) and Pretty Baby ( 1978 ); Roman Polanski's The Tenant ( 1976 ); Jan Troell's Hurricane ( 1979 ); Bob Rafelson's version of The Postman Always Rings Twice ( 1981 ); Agnes of God ( 1985 ); Woody Allen's Another Woman ( 1988 ) and Crimes and Misdemeanors ( 1989 ); Richard Attenborough's Chaplin ( 1992 ); Nora Ephron's Sleepless in Seattle ( 1993 ); and Lasse Hallström's What's Eating Gilbert Grape ( 1993 ).

There she worked with Fatty Arbuckle, Mack Sennett ( with whom she was romantically involved for a short time ) and Charlie Chaplin amongst others.

Jimmy Aubrey ( born 23 October 1887, Bolton, Lancashire, England – died 2 September 1983, Woodland Hills, California ) was an English actor who worked with both Charlie Chaplin and Laurel & Hardy, having gone with Fred Karno's company to America.

For the rest of his career, Bergman remained as a character actor for Chaplin and worked as a studio assistant, including Assistant Director.

Having already worked with Charles Chaplin at Keystone, Swain began working with Chaplin again at First National in 1921, appearing in The Idle Class, Pay Day and The Pilgrim.