Charlie Chaplin (1951)

Record Details:

Title:
Charlie Chaplin
Date:
1951
Publisher:
New York : Henry Schuman, Inc.
Volume:
Charlie Chaplin
Leaf #:
00094
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 I $10,000 a week from Mutual At the end of 1915 other companies began bidding for Chaplin. To continue with Essanay, Spoor offered him a profit-sharing contract, guaranteeing a minimum of $500,000. Chaplin was about to accept when his brother Sidney, who had quit acting for the time to become his business manager, announced that Charlie was worth more: Instructing Edna Purviance and other associates to stand watch to see that he did not accept the Essanay offer, Sidney went off to New York to sound out the other companies. Charlie soon followed him. For Chaplin the period of negotiations was an almost continual fete. Offers poured in for stage appearances. Once, at a benefit concert at the old Hippodrome (February 20, 1916), Chaplin led the famous Sousa's band. His conducting, according to George Canham who was there, drew only perfunctory applause, but when, on his third curtain call, he executed a few steps of his famous walk, pandemonium broke loose. The experience led Chaplin to the resolution to stick to pictures thereafter (and, in truth, he has seldom appeared before the public in any other medium). On February 26, 1916, Chaplin signed with the Mutual Company where John R. Freuler was at the helm. His salary, which received world-wide publicity, was $10,000 a week, with a bonus of $150,000 — totaling $670,000 a year. Once again, he had signed a contract for