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The Circus won Charles Chaplin his first Academy Award - it was still not yet called the Oscar
From the moment he entered movies, Charles Chaplin knew that he needed total creative autonomy
Many of Chaplin's admirers regard "The Kid" as his most perfect and most personal film
"City Lights" proved to be the hardest and longest undertaking of Chaplin's career
Charles Chaplin made "The Gold Rush" out of the most unlikely sources for comedy
Chaplin was acutely preoccupied with the social and economic problems of this new age. In 1931 and 1932 he had left Hollywood behind, to embark on an 18-month world tour. In Europe, he had been disturbed to see the rise of nationalism and the social effec
Charles Chaplin made "Limelight" at the most troubled period of his adult career
Charles Chaplin, without modesty, described "Monsieur Verdoux" as “the cleverest and most brilliant film of my career”
With "A King in New York" Charles Chaplin was the first to expose, through satire, the paranoia which overtook the U.S in the 50s
A Woman of Paris was a courageous step in the career of Charles Chaplin.
By waging war against Hitler via the silver screen, Chaplin was making a personal commitment and, albeit with more gravitas, repeating the experience of Shoulder Arms...
From time to time, like any artist, Chaplin experienced creative blocks; but this was one of the worst in his career. No doubt one cause was his private life
If the early slapstick of the Keystone comedies represents Chaplin’s cinematic infancy, the films he made for the Essanay Film Manufacturing Company are his adolescence.
Buoyed by his enormously successful comedies for Keystone and Essanay, he was offered the largest salary ever extended to a motion picture star.
Building on traditions forged in the commedia dell’arte which he learned in the British music halls, Charles Chaplin brought traditional theatrical forms into an emerging medium and changed both cinema and culture in the process...