This thorough critical study of Chaplin's films traces his acting career chronologically, from his initial appearance in 1914's Making a Living to his final starring role in 1957's A King in New York.
This is a moving portrait of a multi-talented man—actor, director, writer, even music composer—and the complicated times he lived in.
A definitive collection of interviews with Charlie Chaplin offers long, contemplative analyses of the man's life and work, as well as his thoughts on the craft of filmmaking, his methods of making movies, the characters he created, and more ...
A biography of the actor who was born in a London slum and went on to become one of the greatest comedic geniuses of all time.
The people whom I interviewed or corresponded with who deserve mention are the late Lita Grey Chaplin, Sydney Chaplin (the younger), Wyn Evans, Yvette Eastman, Robert Hoover, Bruce Davis, Regina Clark McGranery, James P. McGranery, Jr., ...
Tramp is a perceptive, clever, and captivating biography of a talented and complicated man whose life was filled with scandal, politics, and art.
The Art of Charlie Chaplin is a plain-language critical survey of a great British artist. John Kimber sets Chaplin in the traditions of Shakespeare, of Dickens and George Eliot's Silas...
Charlie Chaplin’s heartfelt and hilarious autobiography—one of the very first celebrity memoirs—tells the story of his life, showcasing all the charms, peculiarities and deeply-held beliefs that made him such an endearing and lasting ...
'A marvellous book . . . unlikely ever to be surpassed' Spectator 'I cannot imagine how anyone could write a better book on the great complex subject . . . movingly entertaining, awesomely thorough and profoundly respectful' Sunday ...
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