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
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