Charlie Chaplin (1951)

Record Details:

Title:
Charlie Chaplin
Date:
1951
Publisher:
New York : Henry Schuman, Inc.
Volume:
Charlie Chaplin
Leaf #:
00066
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
{"Media History Digital Library","Richard Koszarski","Jeff Joseph"}
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
March 21, 2024
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V I I Essanay — the transitional period Realizing the value of his now world-famous new star, Mack Sennett tried to hold him with an offer of four hundred a week. Chaplin's counterdemand, on the advice of friends, was seven hundred and fifty. Sennett, to his subsequent regret, turned it down. In the meantime he did his best to keep agents from other companies away from Chaplin. No strangers were admitted into the guarded studio. According to one story, Sennett's vigilance was put to naught by an Essanay agent who got to Charlie by hiring out as a cowboy extra on the Keystone lot. To Essanay the comedian upped his demand to $1250 a week, which was accepted. On January 2, 1915, it was announced that Chaplin had signed with Essanay at some ten times his Keystone salary. Essanay was founded in 1907, its name an adaptation of the initials S. & A. S was for George K. Spoor, inventor-producer, and A for G. M. Anderson, America's first "star," better known as "Broncho Billy." The company folded in 1917-1918, when the Sherman antitrust laws were invoked against the Motion Picture Patents Company, the monopoly group headed by Edison, who claimed exclusive rights to certain patents. The active Essanay Company would now be virtually forgotten but for Chaplin's year with them.