Also, the barber lacks the ill-fitting clothes of The Tramp, and is clearly portrayed as having a profession.

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.

He also appeared in a documentary of him, The Gentleman Tramp ( 1975 ), directed by Richard Patterson.

In developing the Tramp costume and persona, he was likely inspired by the American vaudeville scene, where tramp characters were common.

* Shree 420 and Awaara main characters are heavily influenced by The Tramp.

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

The 26 founding members came from the group of 32 members who had paid dues by March 13, including strip cartoonists Wally Bishop ( Muggs and Skeeter ), Martin Branner ( Winnie Winkle ), Ernie Bushmiller ( Nancy ), Milton Caniff, Gus Edson ( The Gumps ), Ham Fisher ( Joe Palooka ), Harry Haenigsen ( Penny ), Fred Harman ( Red Ryder ), Bill Holman ( Smokey Stover ), Jay Irving ( Willie Doodle ), Stan MacGovern ( Silly Milly ), Al Posen ( Sweeney and Son ), Clarence Russell ( Pete the Tramp ), Otto Soglow ( The Little King ), Jack Sparling ( Claire Voyant ), Raeburn Van Buren ( Abbie an ' Slats ), Dow Walling ( Skeets ) and Frank Willard ( Moon Mullins ).

Both the Tramp and the Possum were triplanes with twin tractor airscrews driven by shafts from the fuselage.

The 2002 TV documentary on the making of the film, The Tramp and the Dictator, presented newly discovered footage of the film production ( shot by Chaplin's elder half-brother Sydney ) which showed Chaplin's initial attempts at the film's ending, filmed before the fall of France.

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.

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* In Strange Company, by James Greenwood, 1874-A Tramp to the Derby

The Flower Girl walks by, so the Tramp asks the millionaire for money and then buys all her flowers and drives her home in the millionaire's Rolls-Royce.

Returning to the Flower Girl's apartment, the Tramp spies her being attended by a doctor.

The Tramp narrowly escapes the police, delivers the money to the Girl, and promises to return, but he is picked up by the police and thrown in jail.

The Tramp, in ragged clothes and tormented by the same newsboys, suddenly finds himself staring at her through the window.

In July and August Chaplin finished up six weeks of smaller scenes for the film, including the two scenes of the Tramp being harrassed by newsboys, one of which was played by a young

The Gold Rush is a 1925 silent film comedy written, produced, directed by, and starring Charlie Chaplin in his Little Tramp role.

He soon finds himself waylaid by the prospector he met earlier, who has developed amnesia and needs the Tramp to help him find his claim by leading him back to the first cabin.

The Tramp, intimidated by the waiter, checks and now realizes he has lost his coin.

In a Charlie Chaplin documentary, Allen admitted he was inspired by the ending in which the blind girl has regained her sight after an operation and finds out that the Tramp is the one who has been helping her and the poignant smile he flashed as his response.

Modern Times is a 1936 comedy film by Charlie Chaplin that has his iconic Little Tramp character struggling to survive in the modern, industrialized world.

* A Tramp Shining ( 1968 ) by Richard Harris

359, a book of poems self-published by Indianapolis Star columnist Carl Wilson under the pseudonym Tramp Starr.

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 replaced the Tramp ( while wearing similar attire ) with " A Jewish Barber ", a reference to the Nazi party's belief that the star was a Jew.

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:

* 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.

Here, in a supposedly smooth step from one room to another, the Tramp loses his hat in one room, but it is instantly back on his head as he enters the next room.

Clark's ploy is taken from a real-life incident related in Heinlein's Tramp Royale in which his wife answers the same question with " heroin " substituted for the fictitious but equally illegal happy dust.

Many of the songs from these shows are still sung and remembered, including " The Most Beautiful Girl in the World ", " My Romance ", " Little Girl Blue ", " I'll Tell the Man in the Street ", " There's a Small Hotel ", " Where or When ", " My Funny Valentine ", " The Lady is a Tramp ", " Falling in Love with Love ", " Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered ", and " Wait Till You See Her ".

The movie Tramp at the Door is dedicated to her and supposedly depicts her childhood.

There is no consensus on the relationship between the film's Jewish barber and Chaplin's earlier Tramp character, but the trend is to view the barber as a variation on the theme.

In Boom and Bust: American Cinema in the 1940s, Thomas Schatz writes of " Chaplin's Little Tramp transposed into a meek Jewish barber ", while, in Hollywood in Crisis: Cinema and American Society, 1929-1939, Colin Shindler writes that " The universal Little Tramp is transmuted into a specifically Jewish barber whose country is about to be absorbed into the totalitarian empire of Adenoid Hynkel.

Tramp is derived from the Middle English as a verb meaning to " walk with heavy footsteps " ( cf.

The officials of a city are dedicating a new statue, but when it is unveiled, Chaplin's Tramp is discovered sleeping on it.

Just when she is about to give him his change, a man gets into a nearby car and drives away, making her think the Tramp has driven off.

That evening, the Tramp runs into a drunken millionaire ( Harry Myers ) who is trying to commit suicide.

Despite a valiant effort, the Tramp is thrashed.

One sequence was altered in the 1942 re-release so that instead of the Tramp finding a note from Georgia which he mistakenly believes is for him, he actually receives the note from her.

Another major alteration is the ending, in which the now-wealthy Tramp originally gave Georgia a lingering kiss on board ship ; the sound version ends before this scene.

The Immigrant ( also called Broke ) is a silent 1917 American comedy short film starring the Charlie Chaplin Tramp character as an immigrant coming to the United States who is accused of theft on the voyage across the Atlantic Ocean, and befriends a young woman along the way.