Pictures of Charlie Chaplin (Motion Picture Magazine, 1916)Five assorted pictures of Charlie Chaplin as they appeared on the printed page of a 1916 MOTION PICTURE MAGAZINE.
*Watch a Clip from a Charlie Chaplin Movie*
Charlie Chaplin Wanted to be Taken Seriously (Current Opinion, 1922)We have all seen it many times before: the well-loved, widely accepted comedian who decides that being adored by the masses is simply not enough. For too many comic talents, sadly, there comes a time when they slip on one banana peel too many and it occurs to them that they want the world to appreciate them for their ability to think. Comics who fill this description might be Al Frankin, Woody Allen or Steve Martin.
This article tries to understand why Chaplin wanted to play a tragic part in a 1921 London stage adaptation of William Thackery's 'Vanity Fair'.
We have seen such behavior in comics many times before, they hadn't.
Charlie Chaplin's Salary and Other Concerns (Motion Picture Magazine, 1916)These short paragraphs appeared in 1916 answering the question for so many concerning the salary of Charlie Chaplin and who served as the inspiration for his famous character, "the Little Tramp".
Charlie Chaplin and His Popularity (Vanity Fair, 1921)The Irish playwright St John Ervine (1883 - 1971) wrote this article for VANITY FAIR in an attempt to understand Charlie Chaplin's broad appeal; rich and poor, highbrow and lowbrow, all enjoyed his movies.
"Mr. Chaplin is the small boy realizing his ambitions."
Charlie Chaplin and His Imposters (Motion Picture Magazine, 1916)With the popularity of Charlie Chaplin (1889 - 1977) came a large number of artificial, bootlegged Charlie Chaplin movies and a host of fraudulent 'Charlies'. All the fake Chaplins were clad the same and all answered to the same name yet all had different biographies and were not terribly funny in the slightest degree. Chaplin No. 1 did not care for this one bit and did not hold back while talking to this correspondent from 'Motion Picture Magazine'.
*Watch this Chaplin Clip*
Charlie Chaplin Joins With Pickford, Fairbanks and Griffith to Form United Artists (Film Cavalcade, 1939)Restless with the manner in which the film colony operated, Chaplin joined forces with three other leading Hollywood celebrities to create United Artists; a distribution company formed to release their own films. Attached is a printable history of United Artists spanning the years 1919 through 1939 which also outlines why the organization was so original:
"[United Artists] introduced a new method into the industry. Heretofore producers and distributors had been the employers, paying salaries and sometimes a share of the profits to the stars. Under the United Artists system, the stars became their own employers. They had to do their own financing, but they received the producer profits that had formerly gone to their employers and each received his share of the profits of the distributing organization."
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