Charlie chaplin 3
Charlie chaplin 3Charlie Chaplin
Charles Spencer Chaplin was born on April 16, 1889 in Walworth,
London, and lived a Dickensian childhood, shared with his brother, Sydney,
that included extreme poverty, workhouses and seeing his mother's mental
decline put her into an institution. Both his parents, though separated when
he was very young, were music hall artists, his father quite famously so. But
it was his mother Charlie idolized and was inspired by during his visits
backstage while she performed, to take up such a career for himself.
He achieved his ambition when he joined a dancing troop, the Eight
Lancashire Lads, and this eventually led onto parts in Sherlock Holmes and
Casey's Court Circus. Sydney, meanwhile, had joined the famous Fred Karno
Company and quickly became a leading player and writer therein. He
managed to get Charlie involved, and he too became a Karno star. For both
boys, Karno was almost a college of comedy for them, and the period had a
huge impact on Charlie especially.
In 1910 Charlie toured the U.S. with the Karno group and returned
for another in 1912. It was on this tour that he was head hunted by Mack
Sennett and his Keystone Film Company, and Charlie was thus introduced
into the medium of film. His first film, in 1914, was aptly titled Making A
Living, and it was directed by Henry Lehrman. He starred in many of his
Keystones along side Mabel Normand, who also directed three of his films,
but it wasn't until Twenty Minutes of Love that he had a taste of directing
himself, and this quickly became the only way he worked.
His success was such that he was able to move from one company to
another, each time into a better deal. In 1915, after thirty-five films, he
moved to...
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