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.

Chaplin, rich enough to do what he pleased, worked only occasionally.

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 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.

`` Behind that Charlie Chaplin moustache and that truant lock of hair that always covered his forehead, behind the tirades and the sulky silences, the passionate orations and the occasional dull evasive stare, behind the prejudices, the cynicism, the total amorality of behavior, behind even the tendency to great strategic mistakes, there lay a statesman of no mean qualities: Shrewd, calculating, in many ways realistic, endowed -- like Stalin -- with considerable powers of dissimulation, capable of playing his cards very close to his chest when he so desired, yet bold and resolute in his decisions, and possessing one gift Stalin did not possess: The ability to rouse men to fever pitch of personal devotion and enthusiasm by the power of the spoken word ''.

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

" His early years were spent with his mother and brother in the London district of Kennington ; Hannah had no means of income, other than occasional nursing and dressmaking, and Chaplin Sr. provided no support for his sons.

" For the two months she was there, Chaplin and his brother were sent to live with their father, whom the young boy scarcely knew.

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.

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

Chaplin quickly began work in another role, touring with his brother — who was also pursuing an acting career — in a comedy sketch called Repairs.

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

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

After some adjustments, Chaplin signed with Keystone on 25 September.

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

In June, Keystone issued adverts in Britain with the words: " Are you prepared for the Chaplin boom?

The Essanay Film Manufacturing Company sent Chaplin an offer of $ 1, 250 a week with a signing bonus of $ 10, 000.

Chaplin was unimpressed with the conditions there, and after making one film ( His New Job, released 1 February 1915 ), moved to the company's small studio in Niles, California.

She went on to appear in 35 films with Chaplin over eight years.

The use of pathos was developed further with The Bank, released four films and four months later, as Chaplin chose to have a sad ending.

Shops were stocked with Chaplin merchandise, he was featured in cartoons and comic strips, and several songs were written about the star.

A contract was negotiated with Mutual that amounted to $ 670, 000 a year, making Chaplin — at 26 years old — one of the highest paid people in the world.

For The Pawnshop he recruited the actor Henry Bergman, who was to work with Chaplin for 30 years.

Despite this campaign Chaplin was a favourite with the troops, and his popularity continued to grow worldwide.

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.