Charlie Chaplin and his family reading his autobiography
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Three books. Two obvious choices, but I’m going with them anyway: His own “My Autobiography” (what a genius title! haha),

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Charlie Chaplin, looking at a film strip, circa 1918
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Oh boy. I’m going to be jumping all around his timeline! Well, maybe 1918. Right when he starting rolling with

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One person towers ahead of other bad guys. Standing at 6’5, and just under 300 pounds, it’s Eric Campbell. He

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Charlie Chaplin making faces at his brother Sydney who is filming him on home movie. On the set of The Great Dictator. 1939
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A number of films, whether they be home made movies, newsreels, or unfinished/unreleased films still exist. Some black and white,

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“Smile” is a given, so I won’t name that. There are a number of songs that are wonderful, like “Eternally”

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This one is hard (wait, I already said that for almost every other day in this challenge, haha), and like

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by Calvero

This is not to say that I hate the movie. Not at all. This one just is at the bottom

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I thought about picking something that I did not previous choose. But I think I’ll choose a previous pick anyway.

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<Takes a deep breath and cracks knuckles> This post on the Chaplin movie is very involved. So let’s get movin’!

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Charlie Caplin driven "insane" in Modern Times - 1936
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And now we come to his last great era: The United Artists movies. This is the most difficult of all

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