Interview in Sao Paolo newspaper O Estado de São Paulo for the Brazilian edition of Chaplin A Life

Interviewer: Chaplin was hardly a simple or transparent man. Do you think Freud oversimplified him as an artist when he wrote that Chaplin always played himself as he was in his dismal youth? [...]

Ten days after the death of his firstborn infant son, 30-year-old Charlie Chaplin began interviewing child actors for this previously unplanned film in which his Little Tramp finds, adopts and raises an abandoned infant who grows to be a miniature version of himself. The child actor is Jackie Coogan.

Charlie & Jackie in the film THE [...]

MICHAEL JACKSON DRESSED IN CHAPLIN’S LITTLE TRAMP COSTUME

Jackson was fascinated, if not in fact obsessed, with the trajectory of Charlie Chaplin’s life story.

Like Chaplin, Jackson went into show business at a very early age.

Chaplin in his first professional role as a child performer: he was a member of clog dancing [...]

Ten days after the death of his firstborn infant son, 30-year-old Charlie Chaplin began interviewing child actors for this previously unplanned film in which his Little Tramp finds, adopts and raises an abandoned infant who grows to be a miniature version of himself. The child actor is Jackie Coogan.

Charlie & Jackie in the film THE [...]

OR….WHERE’S CHARLIE?

For a photo-essay on THE CIRCUS see essay #33 on this website (see list on the left side of this web page).

For a wonderful film clip of 83-year-old Chaplin receiving the longest standing ovation in the history of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences go to Charlie’s Oscar

THE UPLIFTING, GREAT DEPRESSION ERA THEME SONG “SMILE” FROM MODERN TIMES SUNG BY CHARLIE’S DAUGHTER & GRAND DAUGHTER

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It was with great sadness that I learned today of the death of Dick Seaver. He was the editor of CHAPLIN A LIFE and I count my lucky stars that I had his guidance and intelligence in shaping this book. Dick’s passing marks the end of an era in [...]