Archives for December, 2020

Charlie Chaplin on skates - The Rink

Just finished re-watching The Rink from 1916 from his Mutual period. Watching him on skates is balletic. How does he

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Charlie Chaplin, photographed by Lee Miller

There’s a bunch of great photos of him out of costume, usually wearing a suit. I have a couple in

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Charlie Chaplin in his Little Tramp costume

While it’s not a still from one of his films, but during a break, he is in his famous Tramp

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book cover to Tramp: The Life of Charlie Chaplin by Joyce Milton

I was wondering whether or not to include this day’s challenge because I don’t want to give publicity to poorly

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Charlie Chaplin and his family reading his autobiography

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

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

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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