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1. Charles Spenser Chaplin

2. He was born
on the 16th of
April in
London,
England.
His parents
worked in
Music Hall.

3. His parents
separated
soon after his
birth.
After that
Charles lived
with his
mother.

4. In 1896, his mother
couldn’t find work;
Charlie and his
older half-brother
Sydney were left
in the workhouse.
After several
weeks they went
to Hanwell School
for Orphans.

5. His father died
when Charlie
was 12,
and his mother
suffered a
mental
breakdown. She
died in 1928.

6. Charlie first
performed in
Music Hall in 1894
at the age 5.
As a child, he
was often
seriously ill.

7. In 1900,
aged 11,
his brother
helped get him
the role of
a comic cat in
the pantomime
Cinderella at
the London
Hippodrome.

8. He became a clown in Fred
Karno's Fun Factory comedy
company in 1907.

9. Charlie
arrived in the
USA with the
Karno troupe
on October 2,
1912.

10. He became world famous
very quickly. His brother,
Sydney, was his business
manager. Look at his salary.
1914: Keystone, worked for
$150 a week.
1914-1915: Chicago, Illinois,
$1250 a week, plus $10,000
signing bonus.
1916-1917: Mutual, $10,000 a
week, plus $150,000 signing
bonus.
1917: First National, $1 million
– the first actor ever to earn
that sum.

11. He also formed his own independent
production company in 1918, the Charles
Chaplin Film Corporation, which made him
a very wealthy man.

12. These are comedy
shorts (such as A
Dog's Life (1918)
and Pay Day
(1922)), longer films
(Shoulder Arms
(1918) and The
Pilgrim (1923)), and
his great silent
feature length films:
The Kid (1921),

13. A Woman of Paris
(1923), The Gold
Rush (1925), and
The Circus (1928).
His silent films with
his own music and
sound effects:
City Lights (1931)
and Modern Times
(1936),

14. His dialogue films made
in Hollywood were The
Great Dictator (1940),
Monsieur Verdoux (1947),
and Limelight (1952).

15. On October 23, 1918, the 28 year old
Chaplin married the 16-year-old
Mildred Harris. They had one child,
Norman Spencer Chaplin, who died in
infancy; they divorced in 1920.

16. In 1919 he founded the United Artists
film distribution company with Mary
Pickford,
Douglas
Fairbanks
and
D. W. Griffith,
and served
on the board
of UA until
the early
1950's.

17. Chaplin won
Oscar twice the
first Oscar on
May 16, 1929,
the second award
came 44 years
later in 1972.

18. Charles Spenser Chaplin.
His private life.

19. At 35, he married 16-year-old Lita Grey They had
two sons, the actors Charles Chaplin Jr. and
Sydney Earle Chaplin.
They divorced in 1928 (700.000$).

20. He married Oona O'Neill, daughter of Eugene
O'Neill, on June 16, 1943. He was 54; she was 17.
This marriage was a long and happy one, with eight
children. They had three sons Christopher, Eugene
and Michael and five daughters Geraldine,
Josephine, Jane, Victoria and Annette-Emilie.
The last child was born when Chaplin was 72.

21. On March 4, 1975 he was knighted as a
Knight of the British Empire by Queen
Elizabeth II.
Эрик Кэмпбелл,
Чарли Чаплин и
Эдна Перваэнс
в фильме
"За экраном.

22. Chaplin died on Christmas Day, 1977
in Vevey, Switzerland, aged 88.

23. 1 марта 1978 года
гроб с телом
Чаплина был выкопан и
похищен с целью
получения выкупа.
Полиция арестовала
преступников,
и тело актёра было
перезахоронено 17 мая
1978 года под
6 футами (1,8 м)
бетона, чтобы в
будущем
предотвратить
подобные попытки.

24. У Чаплина были голубые глаза.
Чаплин был левшой, и даже на скрипке играл с
левой руки.
Первым автомобилем Чаплина был роскошный
скоростной Locomobile стоимостью 4900 $ .
Любимым видом спорта Чаплина был бокс.
Любимым танцем Чаплина было танго. В фильме
«Огни большого города» он «совместил» бой на
ринге с танго.
Чаплин на своих фильмах заработал около
10,5 млн долларов.
Во время съёмок фильмов Чаплина произошёл
всего один несчастный случай. Травму получил сам
Чаплин на съёмках фильма «Тихая улица».
Чаплин однажды инкогнито принимал участие в
конкурсе двойников Бродяги. По одной версии он
занял в конкурсе второе место, по другой версии —
третье, по третьей версии — пятое.