My Autobiography by Charles Chaplin (most read book in the world TXT) 📕

at sunset and look over a vast green lawn to the lake in the distance, and beyond the lake to the reassuring mountains, and in this mood think of nothing but enjoy their magnificent serenity.

THE FILMS OF

CHARLES CHAPLIN

  THE KEYSTONE FILMS

1914

Making a Living (1 reel)

Kid Auto Races at Venice (split reel)

Mabel’s Strange Predicament (1 reel)

Between Showers (1 reel)

A Film Johnnie (1 reel)

Tango Tangles (1 reel)

His Favourite Pastime (1 reel)

Cruel, Cruel Love (1 reel)

The Star Boarder (1 reel)

Mabel at the Wheel (2 reels)

Twenty Minutes of Love (1 reel)

Caught in a Cabaret (2 reels)

Caught in the Rain (1 reel)

A Busy Day (split reel)

The Fatal Mallet (1 reel)

Her Friend the Bandit (1 reel)

The Knockout (2 reels)

Mabel’s Busy Day (1 reel)

Mabel’s Married Life (1 reel)

Laughing Gas (1 reel)

The Property Man (2 reels)

The Face on the Bar-room Floor (1 reel)

Recreation (split reel)

The Masquerader (1 reel)

His New Profession (1 reel)

The Rounders (1 reel)

The New Janitor (1 reel)

Those Love Pangs (1 reel)

Dough and Dynamite (2 reels)

Gentlemen of Nerve (1 reel)

His Musical Career (1 reel)

His Trysting Place (2 reels)

Tillie’s Punctured Romance (6 reels)

Getting Acquainted (1 reel)

His Prehistoric Past (2 reels)

THE ESSANAY FILMS

1915

His New Job (2 reels)

A Night Out (2 reels)

The Champion (2 reels)

In the Park (1 reel)

The Jitney Elopement (2 reels)

The Tramp (2 reels)

By the Sea (1 reel)

Work (2 reels)

A Woman (2 reels)

The Bank (2 reels)

Shanghaied (2 reels)

A Night in the Show (2 reels)

1916 Carmen (4 reels)

Police (2 reels)

1918 Triple Trouble (2 reels)

THE MUTUAL FILMS

1916

The Floorwalker (2 reels)

The Fireman (2 reels)

The Vagabond (2 reels)

One a.m. (2 reels)

The Count (2 reels)

The Pawnshop (2 reels)

Behind the Screen (2 reels)

The Rink (2 reels)

1917 Easy Street (2 reels)

The Cure (2 reels)

The Immigrant (2 reels)

The Advenurer (2 reels)

THE FIRST NATIONAL FILMS

1918

A Dog’s Life (3 reels)

The Bond (split reel)

Shoulder Arms (3 reels)

1919

Sunnyside (3 reels)

A Day’s Pleasure (2 reels)

1920

The Kid (6 reels)

The Idle Class (2 reels)

1922

Pay Day (2 reels)

1923

The Pilgrim (4 reels)

UNITED ARTISTS FILMS

(all full-length)

1923

A Woman of Paris

1925

The Gold Rush

1928

The Circus

1931

City Lights

1936

Modern Times

1940

The Great Dictator

1947

Monsieur Verdoux

1953

Limelight

1957

The King in New York

1. Charles Chaplin

2. Charles Chaplin Sr

3. Hannah Chaplin

4. Hannah Chaplin in her house in California

5. Chaplin (circled) at the Hanwell Schools, 1897 (National Film and Television Archive)

6. Sydney Chaplin

7. Chaplin as the Inebriate – one of the roles he played for Karno

8. Chaplin with Alf Reeves

9. On the ship to the USA

10. Keystone – with Mabel Normand in Mabel at the Wheel

11. Chaplin Studios – on the building site in 1917

12. United Artists – Douglas Fairbanks, Chaplin, D. W. Griffith and Mary Pickford

13. Washington – Liberty Bond Tour, 1918 (AKG)

14. Mildred Harris

15. Chaplin c. 1918

16. Visiting London, 1921

17. With Lord and Lady Mountbatten, 1921

18. With Jackie Coogan in The Kid, 1921

19. Jackie Coogan visiting Chaplin on the set of Modern Times, 1935

20. Clare Sheridan working on her bust of Chaplin

21. Chaplin with Anna Pavlova

22. Edna Purviance (centre) in A Woman of Paris, 1923

23. City Lights with Virginia Cherrill, 1931

24. Winston Churchill with Chaplin on the set of City Lights, 1929

25. Chaplin with Professor and Mrs Einstein at the premiere of City Lights

26. Chaplin with Arnold Schoenberg

27. Modern Times, 1936

28. Chaplin with Paulette Goddard in Modern Times

29. The Great Dictator, 1940

30. Chaplin with Oona, Geraldine and Michael

31. Chaplin with his sons Charles and Sydney on the set of Monsieur Verdoux, 1947

32. With Claire Bloom in Limelight, 1952

33. With Dawn Addams in A King in New York, 1957

34. With Oona in Switzerland

35. With Michael, Josephine and Eugene

Index

Abrams, Hiram, of United Artists,

300

Agee, Jim, 442, 448, 454

Aldershot: ‘a week of terror to

performers’, 18

Alexandra, Queen, 90

Alexandria Hotel and Bar (Los Angeles), 144, 147, 155, 183–4,

195, 206

Alexandrov, Grigor, 319

Amarillo (Texas), C.’s reception at 175–6

American Legion and Monsieur Verdoux, 445

Anderson, Andy, 376

Anderson, G. M. (Bronco Billy),

160–72 passim

Aragon, Louis, 464

Arbuckle, Roscoe (‘Fatty’), 143, 146, 155230–31, 270

Arthur, George K., 270

Astor, Lord. 331

Athletic Club (Los Angeles), C.’s quarters in, 158, 218, 224, 226, 234

Aubrey (C.’s cousin), 264, 279

Auriol, President Vincent, 461

Bali, C. in (‘a paradise’), 363–6

ballet, C. and, 191–3; in Limelight,

447

Balsan, Consuelo Vanderbilt, 350

Barrie, Sir James, 268–9

Barry, Joan, 407 ff.

Barrymore, John, 258

Barton, Ralph (of the New Yorker), 329, 330, 333, 337–41

Beach, Rex, 200

beauty, C.’s concept of, 351–2, 448

Beaverbrook, Lord, 334

Beck, Martin, 121

Beddington-Behrens, Sir Edward, 467

Bell, Charlie (comedian), 92

Berlin, Irving, 324

Bernard, Sam, 256–7

Bernhardt, Sarah, 194

Bernstein, Sydney, 467

Bernstorff, Count, and W. R. Hearst, 315

‘Bert Coutts’ Yankee-Doodle Girls’, 103 ff.

Beverly Hills, C.’s first impression of, 198

big-game fishing, C. and, 247–8

Biograph Company, 129

biographies, C. on, 351

Birth of a Nation, The, 173

birthplace, C.’s, 13

Black Dragon Society (Japan) and plot to kill C, 366–70

Blackburn, C. in, 358

Blackmore’s Theatrical Agency, 77–8

Bloom, Claire, 448

Bodie, ‘Dr’ Walford, 91, 94

Boicette troupe (knockabout comedians), 92

Boissevain, Jan (Dutch industrialist),

246

Booth, Edwin (Amer, actor), 258

Boothby, Robert (later Lord Boothby), 334

Bouicicault, Dion, 90–91

Boyle Heights (Los Angeles), Essanay studio at, 170 ff.

Bracken, Brendan, 334

Brady, ‘Diamond’ Jim, 155–6

Brecht, Bertolt, 428

Breen office and Monsieur Verdoux, 429 ff.

Briand, Aristide, 352

Brice, Fanny, 257, 318

Bridges, Harry (of the Longshoremen’s union), 392–3

Brisbane, Arthur, 307, 386

Broadway Melody, The, 321

Bronco Billy: see Anderson,

G. M. Bulganin, C.’s meeting with, 467–9

Burke, Thomas (Eng. writer), ‘at my best with’, 279

burlesque shows (U.S.A.), 126

Burnier, Madame Eileen, C.’s secretary, 465

Bushman, Francis X., 165

Butte (Montana): ‘a Nick Carter town’, 127, 134

Cadman, Charles, 225

Caine, Hall, 91

California, C.’s first impressions of, 128

reasons for film-makers’ choice,

157

Campbell, Mrs Pat, 257

Canada, C. in, 119, 128

Canterbury Music Hall (London),

C’s father performs at, 15

C. plays at, 103

Capote, Truman, 473

Carmen, C. burlesques De Mille’s

film of, 173–4

Carnegie Hall, C.’s ‘second Front’

speech at, 404–7

Carpentier, Georges, 273

Carter, Mrs Leslie (Amer, actress),

257

Caruso, Enrico, C. and, 181–3

Casey’s Circus, C’s impersonations

in, 94

Catalina, C. at, 247–8, 313, 376

Catholicism, C’s early leanings towards,

44

Catholics’ antagonism to C. in U.S.A., 441–2, 445

Caught in the Rain(C’s first film as director), 152

Caulfield, of the Mutual Film Corporation, 187–8

celebrity, ‘something bogus about it?’, 177

C’s