You must watch the movie “Chaplin” starring Robert Downey Jr. If you have not seen it already! He should have gotten an Oscar for this movie! It is totally wonderful and tells the whole story of Chaplin.
I first became aware of Charlie Chaplin, when, in 1972, he was finally awarded an honorary Oscar at the Academy Awards that year. But I actually fell in love with his movies in the summer of 1974, when there was a "Charlie Chaplin Festival" on television, featuring most of his best-known movies. In those days there was very little criticism of his rather scandalous private life. Instead, he was highly praised as a great actor and comedian. His death on Christmas Day of 1977 was marked by big, black front page headlines on the following day. I was rather shocked at the terrible way that he was treated by the American federal government in 1952 and pretty well forced into exile in Switzerland or face prison time in the United States. I did read his autobiography, published in 1964, and found it very interesting, especially when I read about his absolutely horrendous childhood in London, England.
Yes, The great America is certainly not always that! We have done some very cruel things based on conspiracy and take zero responsibility for our actions.
I'm the same age as Chaplin's son, Michael, i.e. 77 & at age 3, in 1949 ( before my family had a t.v)., my Dad bought a cheap 16 mm projector with two films! One was a Charlie Chaplin comedy, which we watched numerous times! As a child, I knew Chaplin came from a foreign country & since his films were 'silent', I thought that he couldn't speak English! Little did I realize then, that I was watching one of, if not the most unique talent from the "Silent Era" of movies!
I read Charlie’s autobiography, biography, seen the documentary, watched interviews with his kids, and watched the biopic with Robert Downey Jr.: no father is perfect no matter what! My grandfathers drank and smoked and did who knows what else with my parents! No grandparents are meant to be the most perfect!
My father was not famous other than in his circle of friends. And at home me he was a wholly different man than in his life outside our hone. And it was a very severe person a at home. In public he was very Ward Clever.
That's one reason why I think the legalisation of divorce was a good thing. It's an opportunity for some people to change. In earlier times divorce was not easy or almost impossible. That meant ( a man) could behave wrongly at home but not being corrected.
It sounds like Charlie although no saint was far better towards his children than that bastard Bing Crosby. From what I've read and heard about how Crosby treated his four sons, the sob should have been locked up! Apparently two of them committed suicide!
Marlon Brando was critical of Charles Chaplin when he heard (he was standing next to Chaplin when it happened) how he treated his son. He was not a nice person
7:08- Incredibly enough in Chaplin's own autobiography, he said he'd met the 16-year-old Mildred Harris at a party that she got bored with and asked him to take her home- and THAT is when they had intercourse. Yep, he concluded that just because she wanted him to take her home that that meant she'd given him her consent! Sadly, towards the end of their brief marriage, they'd had a son in 1919 who died after three days of evident birth disabilities that Chaplin announced in a bulletin in his studio had been named Norman Spencer Chaplin then buried under an epitaph that read only 'The Little Mouse' -and that was ALL that was ever disclosed about his firstborn marital son who he made no mention of in his autobiography. Not unlike how decades later the singer-composer Prince would go to a great deal of trouble to keep his own tragic son Amiir's life and death a secret.
Its pretty shocking to learn about Chaplin and the younger women in his life. Back then things were different and thankfully the world has evolved. The last wife must have loved him to have eight children and can anyone really know what goes on between two people?
According to"The Biography"tv tribute to Charlie Chaplin..at the end of the show..it mentions that Charlie would never celebrate Christmas in his home in Vevey Switzerland.."Because it reminded him of childhood poverty"..he died on Christmas Day,1977. I'm sure that his prohibiting of Christmas in his home..didn't endear him to his kids.
Charlie Chaplin was a force . He was talented and driven . He wouldn't be stopped and therefore achieved much . Other people for the most part , didn't matter to him . 12 kids is a lot , 2000 woman is a devastatation . He was an unrestricted person , clever , cunning talented . One of a kind
I'm hugely interested in seeing the documentary of Charlie Chaplin. What is the title of it, etc.? I was also wondering what the title of Michael Chaplin's book is? I would be interested in that as well. Any help would be appreciated. I hate to say it, I really do but to me he seems like he was the way many actors probably are. We just don't see that side of them because it's not always public. Although, that may be a bit sad to a point. I suppose it really depends on how you look at it. To me, it's simple reality. Anyway any help would truly be appreciated.
It’s just sad - I guess Charlie Chaplin gave it all on screen & left no emotion for his family. It’s also hard to look at life in the early 1900’s with 2024 insight.
All my life Charlie Chaplin had been my top most number one favorite actor. My heart is broken for learning all of this information. I guess power, money and notoriety has no respect for the perceived great ones. I realize now........ that's who it goes after after all.
Not a successful film at the box office or with the critics. Robert Downey Jr. is over 6ft. tall with broad shoulders, leaving him towering over Chaplin’s tiny frame. Much of Chaplin’s comedy CAME from his slight stature, creating pathos in all his scenes.
He should now do a book on how actors kids are spoiled brats! No self confidence! If he wanted something then he should have worked hard in getting it, and because he couldn’t finish one thing that he started he regrets all of his decisions! That’s life !
In Germany between 1950 and 1970 the comedian Heinz Erhardt was very popular. But in private life he was not funny. At least in Germany it seems, actors acting as gangsters are in private life funnier than comedians. Gert Fröbe for example started his career as circus clown.
Scared of the set loud speaker... His momma should have never allowed him to go onto a movie set with having issues with honesty what was normal on a set.
