Charlie Chaplin was a legendary British comedian and filmmaker who rose to fame in the silent film era. He drew inspiration from his mother's career in music hall and his difficult childhood. Chaplin had an extraordinary career in film, pioneering new techniques and rising to form United Artists studio with Fairbanks, Pickford, and Griffith. He won numerous awards including an honorary Oscar and was knighted for his contributions to film. Chaplin created the iconic Tramp character and is considered one of the most influential filmmakers of all time.

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2. CHARLIE CHAPLIN
 James Agee wrote of Chaplin, “the finest pantomime, the
deepest emotion, and the richest and most poignant
poetry were in [his] work.
 Andrew Sarris called Chaplin “the single most important
artist produced by the cinema, certainly its most
extraordinary performer, and probably still its most
universal icon.”

3. CHAPLIN’S MOTHER
 Charliealways cited
his own mother as a
great inspiration.
 Hannah was a singer
and character
comedienne in the
British music halls.
Hannah Chaplin

4. HANNAH CHAPLIN
 Sadly her career was blighted on and off
by ill health, and it was when her voice
failed during one particular performance
that the young Charlie Chaplin got his
first taste of performing - he went on as
an impromptu replacement.

5. HANNAH CHAPLIN
 Her health continued to
decline and she found
herself making a poor living
as a seamstress and was
eventually put into a mental
hospital.
 Her other children were
Sydney Chaplin, and
Wheeler Dryden - both
by different fathers.

6. HANNAH CHAPLIN
 Charlieand Syd
brought her over to
live with them in
the U.S for the last
seven years of her
life.
 1865-1928

7. CHARLIE’S FATHER
 The senior Charles
Chaplin married
Hannah in 1885 and
took to the stage
professionally a year
later.
 Hewas well known as
a comic singer.
Charles Chaplin

8. CHARLES CHAPLIN, SR.
 Hismarriage to Hannah
did not last long, and
soon he was living with
his mistress.
 Charliehad little contact
with his father, except for
a short period when
Hannah was in a mental
hospital.

9. CHARLES CHAPLIN, SR.
 Alcoholism was a
common problem
amongst many music
hall stars of the
period, and it was this
that eventually killed
Chaplin's father at
such a young age.
 1863-1901

10. CHAPLIN’S CHILDHOOD
 Charles Spencer
Chaplin was born on
April 16th, 1889, in
Walworth, London
 Hischildhood, included
extreme poverty,
workhouses, and
seeing his mother's
mental decline put her
into an institution.
Chaplin Before Success

11. CHAPLIN’S CAREER
 He joined the Eight
Lancashire Lads,
and this eventually led
to Sherlock Holmes
and Casey's Court
Circus.
 Eventually Charlie
joined his brother in
the Fred Karno
Company.
Chaplin in Karno Show

12. CHAPLIN’S CAREER
 Karno was almost a
college of comedy for
them, and the period
had a huge impact on
Charlie especially.
 In 1910 Charlie
toured the U.S with
the Karno group and
returned for another
tour in 1912.
Chaplin 1913

13. CHAPLIN’S CAREER
 It was on this tour
that he was
discovered by Mack
Sennett and his
Keystone Film
Company.
 His first film, in 1914,
was aptly titled
Making A Living.
Chaplin and Sennett in 1948

14. CHAPLIN’S CAREER
 His success was
such that he was
able to move from
one company to
another, each time
on to a better deal.

15. CHAPLIN’S CAREER
 In 1915 , after
thirty-five films, he
moved to Essanay.
 It was here he really
found his feet, not to
mention his longest
serving leading lady,
Edna Purviance.
 The Champion, The
Tramp and The Bank.
Edna Purviance

16. CHAPLIN’S CAREER
 In 1916 he moved to
Mutual, with even
greater control and
financial rewards.
 At Mutual he made
the definitive Chaplin
short comedies, The
Rink, Easy Street,
The Cure and The
Immigrant.

17. CHAPLIN’S CAREER
 First National was
next, and it was here
he constructed his full
length masterpiece,
The Kid.
 Shorter comedies of
note at this time
included Sunnyside
and The Idle Class.

18. THE BIG FOUR
 Along with his
great friend,
Douglas Fairbanks,
as well as Mary
Pickford and D.W
Griffith, Chaplin
formed United
Artists in 1919.
"So, the lunatics have taken
over the asylum!"

19. CHAPLIN’S CAREER
 He made his first film for
them in 1923, the Edna
Purviance vehicle, A
Woman of Paris,
perhaps the least known
of his films, but it was
followed by the Chaplin
classics - The Gold
Rush, The Circus, City
Lights and Modern
Times.

20. WIFES
 Mildred Harris
 Lita Grey
 Joan Barry
 ona O'Neill

21. CHARLIE’S LAST WIFE
 When Charlie married
Oona in June 1943, he
at last found true
happiness, and it
seems they had both
found their soul mates,
despite the fact that
Oona was only 18, and
Charlie was 53.

22. FILMMAKING TECHNIQUES
 Chaplin never spoke more than cursorily about his
filmmaking methods, claiming such a thing would be
tantamount to a magician spoiling his own illusion.
 In fact, until he began making spoken dialogue films
with The Great Dictator in 1940, Chaplin never shot
from a completed script. The method he developed,
once his Essanay contract gave him the freedom to
write for and direct himself, was to start from a vague.

23. FILMMAKING TECHNIQUES
 As ideas were accepted and discarded, a
narrative structure would emerge, frequently
requiring Chaplin to reshoot an already-
completed scene that might have otherwise
contradicted the story.
 Chaplin's unique filmmaking techniques became
known only after his death, when his rare
surviving outtakes and cut sequences were
carefully examined in the 1983 British
documentary Unknown Chaplin.

24. FILMMAKING TECHNIQUES
 This is one reason why Chaplin took so much longer
to complete his films than his rivals did.
 In addition, Chaplin was an incredibly exacting
director, showing his actors exactly how he wanted
them to perform and shooting scores of takes until he
had the shot he wanted.
 Animator Chuck Jones, who lived near Charlie
Chaplin's Lone Star studio as a boy, remembered his
father saying he watched Chaplin shoot a scene
more than a hundred times until he was satisfied with
it

25. AWARDS AND RECOGNITION
 Statue of Chaplin in Leicester Square, London.
 Chaplinwas knighted in 1975 at the age of 85 as
a Knight Commander of the British Empire (KBE)
by Queen Elizabeth II.
 Among other recognitions, Chaplin was given a
star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1970

26. AWARDS AND RECOGNITION
A statue of Charlie
Chaplin was made by
John Doubleday, to
stand in Leicester
Square in London, as
he and his family
spent long holidays in
The Butler Arms Hotel
during the 1960s.

27. ACADEMY AWARDS
 Chaplin received three Academy Awards in his
lifetime: one for Best Original Score, and two
Honorary Awards.
 However, during his active years as a
filmmaker, Chaplin expressed disdain for the
Academy Awards.

28. ACADEMY AWARDS
 The 1st Academy Awards ceremony: When the
first Oscars were awarded on 16 May 1929,
Chaplin's The Circus was set to be heavily
recognised, as Chaplin had originally been
nominated for Best Production, Best Director in a
Comedy Picture, Best Actor and Best Writing
(Original Story).

29. ACADEMY AWARDS
 The 13th Academy Awards ceremony: In 1941,
The Great Dictator was nominated for five awards,
including two for Chaplin: Best Writing and Best
Actor, but Chaplin lost out on both counts.
 The 44th Academy Awards ceremony: Chaplin's
second Oscar was awarded forty-three years after
his first, in 1972. Chaplin came out of exile to
accept the Honorary Award for "the incalculable
effect he has had in making motion pictures the art
form of this century".

30. ACADEMY AWARDS
...Stepping onto the stage, Chaplin received the
longest standing ovation in Academy Award history,
lasting a full twelve minutes.
 The 45th Academy Awards ceremony: In 1973,
Chaplin's film Limelight was honoured with an
Oscar for Best Original Score. Though the film had
originally been released in 1952, due to Chaplin's
political difficulties at the time, the film did not play
for one week in Los Angeles, and thus did not meet
the criterion for nomination until it was re-released
in 1972.

31. COMPARISON WITH OTHER
SILENT COMICS
 Since the 1960s, Chaplin's films have been compared
to those of Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd (the other
two great silent film comedians of the time), especially
among the loyal fans of each comic.
 The three had different styles: Chaplin had a strong
affinity for sentimentality and pathos (which was
popular in the 1920s), Lloyd was renowned for his
everyman persona and 1920s optimism, and Keaton
adhered to onscreen stoicism with a cynical tone
more suited to modern audiences.

32. COMPARISON WITH OTHER
SILENT COMICS
 Commercially, Chaplin made some of the highest-
grossing films in the silent era; The Gold Rush is the
fifth with US$4.25 million and The Circus is the
seventh with US$3.8 million. However, Chaplin's
films combined made about US$10.5 million while
Lloyd's grossed US$15.7 million.
 Buster Keaton's films were not nearly as
commercially successful as Chaplin's or Lloyd's even
at the height of his popularity, and only received
belated critical acclaim in the late 1950s and 1960s.

33. SOME FACTS
 From 1917 to 1918, silent film actor Billy West made
more than 20 films as a comedian precisely imitating
Chaplin's The Tramp.
 Shree 420 and Awaara main characters are heavily
influenced by The Tramp character, makeup and
costume
 In 1985, Chaplin was honoured with his
image on a postage stamp of the United-
Kingdom, and in 1994 he appeared on
United States postage stamp

34. SOME FACTS
A minor planet, 3623 Chaplin, discovered by Soviet
astronomer Lyudmila Karachkina in 1981, is named
after Chaplin.
 On15 April 2011, a day before his 122nd birthday
anniversary, Google celebrated this with a special
Google Doodle video on its global and other
country-wide homepages

35. INTEREST IN PERSONALITIES....
Chaplin with Mahatma Gandhi in Canning Town, London,
1931.

36. AFFECTION WITH SCIENTIST.......
Chaplin with Albert einstein

38. CHAPLIN’S FINAL DAYS
 He spent his final
years writing music for
his films and enjoying
his family life.
 He died, at 4 a.m
on Christmas Day
in 1977.
Les Quais de Vevey

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