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).

THIS TWO-REEL MASTERPIECE WAS CHAPLIN’S COMIC VALENTINE TO THE AMERICAN DREAM. IT AFFECTIONATELY PORTRAYED THE TRIALS & TRIBULATIONS OF NEWCOMERS TO THE PROMISED LAND FILMED AT A PERIOD IN AMERICAN HISTORY WHEN FULLY ONE-THIRD OF ALL PEOPLE IN AMERICA WERE EITHER FOREIGN-BORN OR HAD AT LEAST ONE FOREIGN BORN PARENT.
FOR DOCUMENTARY FOOTAGE OF THE ACTUAL [...]

Charlie Chaplin transformed his childhood experiences with poverty and starvation into comedy. Chaplin grew up at times living beneath the poverty line. As a 14-year-old he personally witnessed the harrowing spectacle of his 38-year-old formerly glamorous and vivacious showgirl mother being driven mad by severe hunger and chronic malnutrition to the [...]

TITLE: HE WAS LARGE, HE CONTAINED MULTITUDES., 13 Nov 2008
By Robert Morris, Dallas, Texas
For most people who are interested in knowing more about the life and career of Charles Chaplin (16 April 1889 – 25 December 1977), this most recently published of several biographies and two autobiographies provides as much information and [...]

Both that enthusiastic Kirkus review and that enthusiastic introduction by Geraldine Chaplin are right, but they miss what turned the better part of my day into a reading binge: the exhilaration of reading your book, the energy that comes off the page. As someone who has invested most of his life in creative [...]