Chaplin : his life and art
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Chaplin : his life and art
（Penguin books, . Biography）
Penguin Books, 2001
Updated ed. with new material
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"First published in Great Britain by William Collins Sons & Company Ltd, 1985, first published in USA by McGraw-Hill, 1985"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references (p. 854-860) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The greatest icon in the history of cinema, Charlie Chaplin lived one of the most dramatic rags to riches stories ever told. His life was marked by extraordinary contrasts: the child of London slums who became a multimillionaire; the on-screen clown who was a driven perfectionist behind the cameras; the adulated star who publicly fell from grace after personal and political scandal. This engrossing and definitive work, the only biography written with full access to Chaplin's archives, tells the whole story of a brilliant, complex man. Now fully updated with added pictures and an extended filmography, it includes revelatory new material on Chaplin's marriages, his affair with movie star Louise Brooks, his persecution by the FBI during anti-Communist witch hunts -exposing their role in the "white-slavery" case against him - and the significance of Richard Attenborough's film "Chaplin".
Table of Contents
- A London boyhood
- the young professional
- with the guv'nor
- in pictures
- Essanay
- mutual
- penalties and rewards of independence
- escape
- "A Woman of Paris"
- "The Gold Rush"
- "The Circus"
- "City Lights"
- away from it all
- "Modern Times"
- "The Great Dictator"
- "Monsieur Verdoux"
- "Limelight"
- exile
- "A Countess from Hong Kong" and the final years
- appendices.
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