Biography of Charlie Chaplin

With that face a bit so

16 April 1889
December 25, 1977
Charles Spencer Chaplin was born on 16 April 1889, in London, in the typical suburban outskirts. His father was the mummer musuc-hall ever committed to drinking while her mother, mediocre singer, in perpetual difficulty in finding work, Charles and Sidney (brother four years older) to an orphanage where they remain two years. Therefore, his difficult childhood. In addition, in a tragic chase each other, other problems resulting from that condition of human misery and material. Not only parents at some point will split, but the mother will also develop a bad mother's mental illness that will force a painful coming and going of hospital admissions and laborious return to the stage. In the midst of all this, however, Chaplin cultivates strong feelings of a need for improvement, an ambition for a more dignified life to which you will add its innate intelligence and the ability to grasp the real dark aspects to others. The young Charles, on the other hand, is soon to emerge. Just seven years already faces the stage as a singer while at fourteen gets his first theatrical parts (the second is in a Sherlock Holmes that will see him at length on tour).
You can't say that hasn't done the classic Cookset, that his knowledge of the world of entertainment is not thorough. A school of life that causes him to age nineteen to be accepted by the famous company of pantomime of Fred Karno, with whom he collaborated for a couple of years before the great American tour, an opportunity that will see a different world, more free and full of possibilities. And it is precisely during a round of shows in Hollywood in 1913, that the producer Mack Sennett finds out, causing then to sign the first film contract with Keystone. In 1914 he made his first screen appearance (title: "making a living"). For the short comic operas designed for Sennett, Charlie Chaplin turned the speck that had formed over time, "Chas" (a kind of parasite devoted only to the courtship), in which the sample of humanity that is the tramp "Charlot" (initially called "Charlie" but later renamed Tramp in 1915 by a French Distributor), packaged by Chaplin in the unforgettable "uniform" made of black moustache, bowler hat, jacket narrow , baggy pants and baggy and bamboo-stick.
The activity, as the times wants, is frenetic: Keystone 35 comic made in 1914 (soon also directing), 14-16, 12 in 1915 for Essanay for Mutual in 1917. An immense amount of work but helps to finally launch the tramp, now entered in the hearts of millions of people around the world. In 1918, in fact, Chapli kebab you might also consider "arrived": is rich, famous and contended. A try? That year signed a million-dollar contract with First National for which he created, until 1922, nine films (including absolute classics as "dog's life", "shoulder arms", "the kid", "pay day" and "The Wanderer"). Follow the great movie produced by United Artists (the House founded by Chaplin in 1919 with Douglas Fairbanks SR., d. w. Griffith and Mary Pickford): "a woman of Paris" (which is just a Director), "the gold rush" and "the circus in the ' 20"; "City lights" and "modern times" over the years ' 30; "The great dictator" (overwhelming satire of Nazism and fascism) and "Monsieur Verdoux" negli anni ' 40; "Limelight" in 1952.
Public figure, universally acclaimed, Charlie Chaplin also had a busy private life, on which all sorts of legends have flourished, little understood even today. At each event, reflecting the character's sentimental voracity are testifying to four weddings, something like ten children ' often stormy and complex relations officers and numerous dismissals. There are also many political events that have marked the life of the great comedian (assuming that this word is not too restrictive). The alleged Jewish origin and the sympathy for leftist ideas and movements caused numerous grits, including that of being subject to the supervision of the FBI since 1922. In ' 47, instead, you even dragged before the Committee for anti-American activities, suspected of Communism: an accusation that costs him the cancellation in ' 52 (while Chaplin was traveling to London), permission to return to the USA. In 1953 the Chaplin settled in Switzerland, at Vevey, where Charles will shut down on December 25, 1977.
Charlie Chaplin in his career has never won an oscar for best actor or best director. For him besides the late honorary oscar in 1972, an oscar for best music composer in 1972 for the movie "limelight" (film carried out over twenty years earlier). His last film ("a King in New York", 1957, and "a Countess from Hong Kong", 1967), his "Autobiography" (1964), the sound-proof reissues of his older works and many unfinished projects were confirmed to the last the vitality of an artist who was among the few large ever of our century (the great Russian poet v. Maiakovski has even dedicated a poem).
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