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.

Chaplin, then 14, had the task of taking his mother to the infirmary.

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 ...

These tunes were then developed further in a close collaboration between the composer ( s ) and Chaplin.

Actually, Chaplin had a dual use of Lohengrin prelude in the film, both where dictator Hynkel dances with the globe-balloon, and then near the conclusion, as the exiled Hannah listens to the Jewish barber's speech celebrating democracy and freedom.

Chaplin then shot the sequence where the Little Tramp first meets the millionaire and prevents him from committing suicide.

Chaplin then shot a sequence that was eventually cut from the film involving the Little Tramp attempting to retrieve a stick that was stuck in a wall.

Chaplin then continued filming the scenes with the millionaire until September 29, 1929.

Chaplin then cast Florence D. Lee as the Blind Girl's grandmother and shot scenes with Cherrill and Dee for five weeks.

* includes Bars And Shadows: The Prison Poems Of Ralph Chaplin originally published in 1922 and then in 2004 as Project Gutenberg EBook.

In a scene of British soldiers drinking in an estaminet, a chanteuse ( Pia Colombo ) leads them in a jolly chorus of " The Moon Shines Bright On Charlie Chaplin ", a reworking of an American song then shifts the mood back to darker tone by singing a soft and sombre version of " Adieu la vie ".

Chaplin then wrote, directed, and starred in Monsieur Verdoux himself.

Chaplin injected moments of drama and pathos unheard of in slapstick comedies ( the tramp is felled by a gunshot wound, and then disappointed in romance ).

He then moved to Keystone Studios, where he began appearing in bit parts in the Mack Sennett films, including those of Charlie Chaplin.

By 1721 George Chaplin was in possession of Colliston, and was succeeded by his nephew George Robertson Chaplin of Auchengray, and then George Chaplin Child Chaplin, M. D.

At one press conference to promote the film, Chaplin made his speech, then invited questions from the press with the words " Proceed with the butchering ".

Austin maintains a deadpan expression as Chaplin progressively destroys his clock, then hands the pieces back to Austin.

Since then he has gone on to become one of the highest-paid stars on British TV, mostly in comedies, appearing in shows such as Only When I Laugh ( as Roy Figgis ), The Beiderbecke Affair ( as Trevor Chaplin ), The Beiderbecke Tapes, Andy Capp ( in the title role ), The Beiderbecke Connection, Second Thoughts ( as Bill MacGregor ), Midsomer Murders, Pay and Display, Dalziel and Pascoe, Close and True, Born and Bred ( as Dr. Arthur Gilder ), and New Tricks ( as Jack Halford ).

Chaplin then moved to Columbia Pictures to score Cover Girl and The Jolson Story.

Fleming then travelled to Les Avants, the villa near Montreux of his close friend Noël Coward, where Coward introduced Fleming to Charlie Chaplin.

Díaz Quesada adapted from the Spanish novelist Joaquín Dicenta in 1910, as a tendency widely used then, of using literary works adapted for movies, as well as imitating Chaplin, the French comedies and cowboys adventure films.

He became the most famous film star in the world before the end of World War I. Chaplin used mime, slapstick and other visual comedy routines, and continued well into the era of the talkies, though his films decreased in frequency from the end of the 1920s.

His mother and father had married four years previously, at which time Chaplin Sr. became the legal carer of Hannah's illegitimate son, Sydney John ( 1885 – 1965 ).

It was an isolated performance, but at nine years old Chaplin became interested in the theatre.

" Through his father's connections, Chaplin became a member of The Eight Lancashire Lads clog dancing troupe.

It was popular with audiences and Chaplin became the star of the show.

" For his second appearance in front of cameras, Chaplin selected the costume with which he became identified.

During the course of 1915, Chaplin became a cultural phenomenon.

Chaplin became fearful that Harris would claim The Kid as part of the divorce proceedings, so packed the 400, 000 feet negative into crates and travelled to Salt Lake City to cut the film in a hotel room.

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 trip had been a stimulating experience for Chaplin, including meetings with several prominent thinkers, and he became increasingly interested in world affairs.

The next year, Oona Chaplin renounced her US citizenship and became a British citizen.

In California, Adorno made the acquaintance of Charlie Chaplin and became friends with Fritz Lang and Hanns Eisler, with whom he completed a study of film music in 1944.

She also told Joachim von Ribbentrop, the German Ambassador who later became the Foreign Minister of Germany, that Hitler looked too much like Charlie Chaplin to be taken seriously.

As Hitler and his Nazi Party rose to prominence, Chaplin's popularity throughout the world became greater than ever ; he was mobbed by fans on a 1931 trip to Berlin, which annoyed the Nazis, who published a book in 1934 titled The Jews Are Looking at You, in which the comedian was described as " a disgusting Jewish acrobat " ( despite the fact that Chaplin was not Jewish ).

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.

The romance theme was later given lyrics, and became the pop standard " Smile ", first recorded by Nat King Cole and later covered by artists as Sammy Davis Jr., Dean Martin, Tony Bennett, Trini Lopez, Eric Clapton, Barbra Streisand, Diana Ross, Michael Bublé, Petula Clark, Liberace, Judy Garland, Madeleine Peyroux, Plácido Domingo and Dionne Warwick, Michael Jackson and Robert Downey, Jr. ( included on the soundtrack for the film Chaplin ).

Chaplin's stock company at Essanay included Ben Turpin, who disliked working with the meticulous Chaplin and only appeared with him in a couple of films ; ingenue Edna Purviance, who became his off-screen sweetheart as well ; Leo White, almost always playing a fussy continental villain ; and all-purpose authority figures Bud Jamison and John Rand.

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, with his Little Tramp character, quickly became the most popular star in Keystone director Mack Sennett's company of players.

He became head of the political section of the Conservative Research Department, and in August 1991 was tipped to follow Judith Chaplin as Political Secretary to the Prime Minister.

The film Ahí está el detalle in 1940 made Cantinflas a household name and became known as the " Mexican Charlie Chaplin ".

The family became active in Lincolnshire, and in subsequent years many members of the Chaplin family stood for Parliament from Lincolnshire.