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The playwright Charles MacArthur had been brought to Hollywood to do a screenplay, but was finding it difficult to write visual jokes.” What’s the problem?” asked Chaplin.
”How, for example, could I make a fat lady, walking down Fifth Avenue, slip on a banana peel and still get a laugh? It’s been done a million times,” said MacArthur. “What’s the best way to GET the laugh? Do I show first the banana peel, then the fat lady approaching, and then she slips? Or do I show the fat lady first, then the banana peel, and THEN she slips?”
”Neither,” said Chaplin without a moment’s hesitation. “You show the fat lady approaching; then you show the banana peel; then you show the fat lady and the banana peel together; then she steps OVER the banana peel and disappears down a manhole.” Charlie always made his audiences laugh and cry. Like he said, “A day without laughter is a day wasted.” Chaplin did everything in show business; he was an actor, director, screenwriter, producer and composer. He was the ideal rags to riches role model that every American dreamed of becoming. Charlie Chaplin revolutionized American show business and inspired Americans to follow their dreams because he was proof that even underdogs could make it to the top. Charles Spencer Chaplin had a very eventful life. He was born in London on the 16th of April 1889, to two music hall performers, Charles and Hannah. Chaplin. However, Charlie Chaplin did not use sound to communicate to the audience in his movies. Despite the fact that there was no spoken language, his movies were sensational and the audiences loved them.
As an actor, director, editor, composer, and producer, Charles Spencer Chaplin made his mark in the film industry as a pioneer of comedy in American Cinema and is known as the single most-influenced artist to date. Chaplin was thought of as cinema’s first genius and has been called the single most-influential artist in the history of motion pictures. I am researching Charlie Chaplin to learn how he became a sensational comedian and one of the best actors of all time. I would also like to appreciate the contributions made by Charles Chaplin to the American cinema and the business of entertainment. Lastly, I would like to investigate Chaplin’s work and ideas. As a child, I enjoyed many of Chaplin’s movies and I would call him my favorite movie star. Charlie Chaplin appealed to his audiences of all ages and I would like my pees and teachers to reflect on his magnetic charisma as a comedian who had profound impact on audiences young and old.
The Body
Chaplin is considered as one of the most pivotal stars of the early days of Hollywood. He lived an interesting life both in his films and behind the camera. Charlie Chaplin is most recognized as an icon of the silent film era, often associated with his popular “Little Tramp” character; a man with a toothbrush mustache, derby hat, bamboo cane, and a funny walk.
Charles Spencer Chaplin was born in London, England, on April 16th 1889. Charlie inherited natural talents from his parents. He took to the stage to help him start a career in acting. Charlie’s first stage appearance was at the age of five, when he had to fill in for his mother at a music hall performance. He joined a tap-dancing group called “The Eight Lancashire Lads” at the age of eight where he quickly won popularity as a topnotch tap-dancer.
At eleven, he appeared in “Giddy Ostende” at London’ Hippodrome. Charlie’s parents, Charles Chaplin Sr. and Hannah Harriett, got married on June 25, 1885. His father was a versatile vocalist and actor. His mother, who performed under the stage name Lili Harley, was a talented actress and singer who gained a reputation in the light opera field. The two also performed in music halls where she would play piano and he would sing ballads.
▪ Charles Chaplin Sr. died on May 9th, 1901 because of unknown causes. On May 5th, 1903 his mother was thrown into a mental institution and labeled as a lunatic. Charlie and his half-brother, Sydney, quickly found themselves without a home or parents. The boys were put in an orphanage where they were often cold and hungry. After spending two years in the orphanage, they were on their own. Charlie often begged for money and worked as a lather boy in barbershops, or as a janitor in a music hall. When he turned fourteen, he got a break when he was asked to act in a legitimate stage show as “Billy” in “Sherlock Holmes”. Following that gig, at the age of eighteen, he started a career as a comedian in vaudeville. Hetty Kelly was Chaplin’s “true” first love, a dancer with whom he “instantly” fell in love when she was fifteen and almost married when he was nineteen, in 1908. It is said Chaplin fell madly in love with her and asked her to marry him. When she refused, Chaplin suggested it would be best if they did not see each other again; he was reportedly crushed w
he was reportedly crushed when she agreed. Years later, her memory would remain an obsession with Chaplin. He was devastated in 1921 when he learned that she had died of influenza during the 1918 flu pandemic. In 1912 the troupe traveled to New York, where he was a featured player with the Fred Karno Repertoire Company. Mack Sennet, founder of Keystone Studios, saw him perform one night and decided to take him on at the Keystone Studio and offered Charlie a motion picture contract. Chaplin agreed to appear before the cameras at the termination of his vaudeville commitments in November of 1913. He did not know it, but this would be the beginning of his legendary career.
Chaplin’s initial salary was one hundred and fifty dollars a week. In February of 1914, he debuted on the big screen starring in “Making a Living”. Surprisingly, the film was considered bad at the time of its release. His next film, however, changed his career forever. It was called “Kid Auto Races at Venice”. The f
The film starred Chaplin as a homeless man who appeared undersized and undernourished. He was nicknamed “the Little Tramp” or “the Little Fellow” by audiences.
His “Little Tramp” character, who had a toothbrush moustache, a battered derby hat, a bamboo cane, oversized shoes, a coat too small for him, and pants much too large, would star in nearly all of Chaplin’s upcoming films until 1940.
Chaplin’s career with Keystone Studios lasted one year. During that time he appeared in and directed roughly thirty-five films, and wrote some fifty movies.
Charlie felt that he was worth more than the one-hundred and seventy-five dollars a week he was getting paid from Keystone, and in January of 1915 he signed with Essanay for one-thousand, two-hundred and fifty dollars a week with bonuses. Chaplin had his brother, Sydney, come to America from England to take his place as leading comedian at Keystone. In another one year deal, Chaplin made a total of fourteen films, including “The T
The Tramp”, which gave audiences their first glimpse of a Chaplin trademark: the final shot of the little fellow, alone, shuffling away from the camera down a long, barren stretch of road.
In 1916, Chaplin once again signed with a different company. This time he signed with Mututal. He demanded ten thousand dollars a week and a one hundred and fifty thousand dollar signing bonus. This year he would make twelve films, however, they were two-reel comedies. In one of the productions, “One A.M.”, he was the only character for the entire two-reels with the exception of an entrance cabdriver in the opening scene. Another hit he had during his time with Mutual was “Easy Street”. “Easy Street” was known as his greatest production up to that time. He stayed with Mutual through October of 1917.
In desire for more freedom and greater leisure in making his movies, he decided to become an independent producer. He built his studio in the heart of the residential section of Hollywood at La
Brea Avenue and Sunset Boulevard. It was called Chaplin Studios. Early in 1918, Chaplin entered into an agreement with First National Exhibitors’ Circuit, an organization specially formed to exploit his pictures. He received one million dollars plus a fifteen thousand dollar bonus and one-half of all profits made.
However, Chaplin still wanted total freedom and security and in April of 1919, he partnered with Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D.W. Griffith. They founded the United Artists Corporation. Chaplin made films exclusively for United Artists distribution. He never again signed a contract with another company. The four cinematic giants shared stocks and profits equally and the stars became their own employers. They also produced all their own films and received the profits that the producers used to earn.
Chaplin directed his first UA release, “A Woman of Paris”, in 1923. It was a sophisticated film, starring his former leading lady, Edna Purviance, and Adolphe Me
Menjou. Chaplin was only a brief cameo in the movie. The film was horrible and didn’t receive any praise.
Charlie Chaplin went on and made seven more feature length films under his agreement with United Artists. Most of the films were big hits and very successful in theaters, including “Modern Times”. “The Great Dictator” was also a big hit in which Chaplin played dual roles in a parody of Hitler’s regime.
Charlie Chaplin was not only one of the greatest actors of his time, but was also very talented writing, music, and sports. He wrote at least four books, mostly about his journey through life. Chaplin was an accomplished musician who could play the cello and violin. Another aspect of music he was into was composing. He wrote and published many songs and composed entire soundtracks to some of his movies.
Charlie Chaplin received many awards and prizes for his works in the world. Those awards include two Oscars from the Academy Awards ceremony in 1972 for his motion pict
motion picture, Limelight, which was never officially released in the U.S.A. until that time and for his “incalculable effect in making motion pictures the art form of the century.” However, the most notable award has to be his knighting in 1975 by England’s Queen Elizabeth II. His last film, “A Countess From Hong Kong”, released in 1967, was the largest flop in his career. It was a romantic comedy starring great actors, Marlon Brando and Sophia Loren. Since the 1960s, Chaplin’s films have been compared to those of Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd (the other two great silent film comedians of the time), especially among the loyal fans of each comic. Commercially, Chaplin made some of the highest-grossing films in the silent era; The Gold Rush is the fifth with US$4.25 million and The Circus is the seventh with US$3.8 million. However, Chaplin’s films combined made about US$10.5 million while Harold Lloyd’s grossed US$15.7 million (Lloyd was far more prolific, releasing twelve feature fil
films in the 1920s while Chaplin released just three). Buster Keaton’s films were not nearly as commercially successful as Chaplin’s or Lloyd’s even at the height of his popularity, and only received belated critical acclaim in the late 1950s and 1960s.
Charles Spencer Chaplin unfortunately passed away on Christmas day 1977. His eight children survived him from his last marriage with Oona O’Neill, and one son from his brief marriage with Lita Grey. The grief didn’t stop with his poorly timed death. On 1 March 1978, his corpse was stolen by a small group of Swiss mechanics in an attempt to extort money from his family. The plot failed, the robbers were captured, and the corpse was recovered eleven weeks later near Lake Geneva. His body was reburied under 6 feet (1.8 m) of concrete to prevent further attempts.
The Conclusion
As an actor, director, editor, composer, and producer, Charles Spencer Chaplin made his mark in the film industry as a pioneer of comedy in American Cinema and
is known as the single most-influenced artist to date. Charlie Chaplin was considered one of the greatest actors of all time. Even more impressive was that he did it without the use of verbal communication. Instead, he communicated to his audiences with his actions and emotions, which he acted out so well. His films show, through the Little Tramp’s positive outlook on life in a world full of chaos, that the human spirit has and always will remain the same. Chaplin’s “tramp” character is possibly the most imitated on all levels of entertainment. It is said that Chaplin once entered a “Chaplin look-alike” competition and came in third. Chaplin received three Oscars in his lifetime: one for Best Original Score, one Honorary Award, and one Special Award. He has many other awards and he also has a star on the star of the walk of fame. My thesis showed that Chaplin has truly mastered in the art of film. All the research however, helped me to understand why Chaplin was to be considered the pi
pioneer of comedy and being the single most-influenced artist to date. It is amazing to see how one man changed the entire film industry and inspired many actors. Through my research I have learned that the Little Tramp was able to make his audiences laugh through his movies which most of the time were silent. Charlie Chaplin not only mastered the fundamentals of an actor but also as a director, editor, composer, and producer. I had learned countless points of Chaplin’s life but one point that really had an impact on me was that he had his own definition of humor. However he didn’t have one he had many. One of which he expressed as a quote which is “Humor is the ability to discern in a kindly way the folly in what is considered normal, sublime behavior, and to discern the discrepancy in what appears as a truth.” In conclusion, Charlie Chaplin in my mind was one of the most real actors of all time. We should all remember him for his contributions to the American Cinema. When he was dyin
dying the priest was attending him at his bedside said “May the Lord have mercy on your soul”, Chaplin is reported to have replied “Why Not? After all, it belongs to him.” That is Charlie Chaplin. The Man. The Legend.
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