Biography
Friends and Family
D.W. Griffith
[Associate]
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Douglas Fairbanks
[Friend]
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Syd Chaplin
[Brother]
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Hannah Chaplin
[Mother]
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Charles Chaplin
[Father]
Trivia and Quotes
Quotes
 All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl. i have no further use for America. I wouldn`t go back there if Jesus Christ was President.
I had no idea of the character. But the moment I was dressed, the clothes and the make-up made me feel the person he was. I began to know him, and by the time I walked onto the stage he was fully born.
I like friends as I like music, when I am in the mood. To help a friend in need is easy, but to give him your time is not always opportune.
It isn`t the ups and downs that make life difficult; it`s the jerks.
The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.
Trivia
After Roscoe (Fatty) Arbuckle was unable to find work after his infamous trial, Chaplin personally supported him out of his own pocket.
As a child he was confined to a bed for weeks due to a serious illness. At night his mother would sit at the window and act out what was going on outside. This was a major reason Chaplin became a comedian.
At the Golden Camera Awards 2005 in Berlin, Geraldine Chaplin told in a moving speech honoring Jerry Lewis about the last time she saw her father alive. He watched a movie of Lewis on television screaming "He`s funny, that bastard!".
Founder of United Artists along with Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and D.W. Griffith.
He and Buster Keaton had an interesting relationship. Long considered rivals but always having avoided commenting about each other in the press, Chaplin hired Keaton for a part in Limelight (1952). Keaton, who was flat broke at the time, went into a career decline after having been signed by MGM in 1928, as the studio would not let him improvise in any of his films nor allow him any writing or directorial input, and he was eventually reduced to writing gags - often uncredited - for other comedians` films. Chaplin, at this point, felt sorry for Keaton due to his hard luck, but Keaton recognized that, despite Charlie`s better fortune and far greater wealth, Chaplin was (strangely) the more depressed of the two. In one scene in Limelight, Chaplin`s character was dying. While the camera was fading away, Keaton was muttering to Chaplin without moving his lips, "That`s it, good, wait, don`t move, wait, good, we`re through." In his autobiography Keaton called Chaplin "the greatest silent comedian of all time."
His film, The Great Dictator, was banned in Germany.
In all his years of living and working in the United States he never became a U.S. citizen.
Was 73 years old when his youngest son, Christopher, was born.
Destroyed the original negative of Sea Gull, The (1933) before a number of witnesses. The film never saw release, possibly because he was dismayed by the poor performance of his lead actress, Edna Purviance.
He was 29 years old when he wed Mildred Harris; she was 17.
He was 35 years old when he wed Lita Grey; Lita was 16.
He was 47 years old when he wed Paulette Goddard; Paulette was 26.
He was 54 years old when he wed Oona O`Neill (Oona Chaplin); Oona was 18.
He was subpoenaed by the House Un-American Activities Council (HUAC) in September of 1947, but his appearance was postponed three times, and he never appeared. He sent HUAC a telegram stating "I am not a Communist, neither have I ever joined any political party or organization in my life". HUAC determined that it was no longer needed for him to appear.
Knighted in 1975.
Long after becoming a millionaire, he continued to live in a shabby hotel room, and kept his studio checks in a trunk for months.
On 3 March 1978 his dead body was stolen from the Corsier-Sur-Vevey cemetery. It took until 18 May when the police found it.
When both Stan Laurel and Chaplin moved to America they shared a room in a boarding house.
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