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"The Gold Rush" (1925) - Charlie Chaplin.

In 1942, Charlie Chaplin slightly reworked the film, composing music and adding sound effects. This was his way of ensuring his undeniable masterpiece would remain relevant in the era of sound cinema. He did it brilliantly!

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Photo taken 1961.

Toshiro Mifune was a Japanese actor with over 150 screen credits. Appearing in one of my favorite foreign films “Rashomon”, a collaboration with Akira Kurosawa (producer/director/screenwriter).

He also starred alongside actor Richard Chamberlain in the highly acclaimed 1980 television mini-series “Shogun”.

Toshiro Mifune and Charles Chaplin

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"The Immigrant" 1917

The Immigrant - 1917

I love this scene; he’s such a sweetheart.

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Drawing depicts Eric Campbell and Charlie Chaplin in his film "The Immigrant" 1917.

Charlie Chaplin

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Playing the country rube is Mack Sennett the founder of Keystone Studios and the man that introduced the world to Charlie Chaplin.

Mabel not putting up with Mack or Charlie’s crap in 

::*The Fatal Mallet (1914)*::

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Charlie Chaplin in "Twenty Minutes of Love" (1914)

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Geraldine Chaplin. Happy birthday!

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Geraldine Chaplin was one of 11 children and the first of 5 daughters.

Geraldine Chaplin was born on July 31, 1944, making her 81 years old today. She is the eldest daughter of the legendary Charlie Chaplin from his marriage to Oona O'Neill, and she is the granddaughter of playwright, Eugene O'Neill. She came to worldwide attention at age 21 when she made her English acting debut as Tonya in director David Lean's film Doctor Zhivago (1965) and received her first Golden Globe nomination for her performance. She would receive two more Golden Globe nominations for her performances in Nashville (1975) and for Chaplin (1992) in which she played her grandmother, Hannah Chaplin. She has appeared in a wide variety of critically recognized Spanish and French films and appeared as Wallis, Duchess of Windsor in The Crown (2019).

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"The Pinch of Poverty" 1891

When I saw this painting by Thomas Benjamin Kennington* I immediately thought of "City Lights".

It is on a corner like this, with wrought iron gates and a wall to sit on, “the tramp” first encounters the beautiful blind girl selling flowers.

Artist's work depicts much of the South London of Charlie Chaplin’s youth, Charlie threads through many of his films scenes reminiscent of his boyhood in South London.

*Thomas Benjamin Kennington (7 April 1856 – 10 December 1916) was an English genre, social realist and portrait painter. Some of his others paintings along this line, “Homeless” (1890) & “Orphans” (1885) (x).

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"The Circus" 1928

“I worked on this film for two years, from October 1925 till October 1927. By the time it came out, the talkies had been born.” Charles Chaplin My Life in Pictures - 1974

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Charlie Chaplin short film "The Floorwalker" 1916

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Modern Times, 1936

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So true, he also used this method for a scene with Edna Purviance in “A Woman of Paris”, 1923.

“You see,” said Chaplin, “I am a being made inside out and upside down. When I turn my back on you in the screen you are looking at something as expressive as a face.”

The Hamlet like Nature of Charlie Chaplin, Benjamin de Cassered, 1920

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Discarded footage from Mutual film company's “Behind the Screen” (1916)

Symbolizes Charlie Chaplin's Mutual film period 1916/1917. Carefree, joyful and oh how he seemed to dance across the screen.

In late 1916 legendary ballet dancer Vaslav Nijinsky came to the set of “Easy Street” he made that very observation.

Vaslav Nijinsky to Charlie Chaplin in 1916: “Your comedy is balletic, you are a dancer.”

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"The Kid" 1921

"The Kid" was in production from July 21st 1919 to July 30th 1920. Working title for this film was “The Waif”.

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Earliest trade card to feature Charlie Chaplin, issued by Moffat sweet meats in 1914, the year chaplin's first film was released.

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"The Circus" 1928

“In at least one scene that appears in the finished film, as Chaplin would unashamedly point out in later years, the fear on his face was not a pretense. Despite the risk, Chaplin went back into the cage day after day..By the time the sequence was completed he had made more than 200 takes with the lions”

Source: David Robinson: Chaplin - His Life and Art (1985)