Charlie Chaplin (1951)

Record Details:

Title:
Charlie Chaplin
Date:
1951
Publisher:
New York : Henry Schuman, Inc.
Volume:
Charlie Chaplin
Leaf #:
000176
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:
June 20, 2024
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X V "The Kid" "The Kid," released February 6, 1921, was Chaplin's first feature-length picture (if we except "Tillie's Punctured Romance" which had not been produced by him). It was his first film in more than a year and it ran six reels. A meeting with the five-year-old Jackie Coogan was its inspiration. Tradition has it that the boy winked at him in a hotel lobby. Jackie's parents were in vaudeville, and he had appeared on the stage with his dancer father, before he was two. When Chaplin saw him he was appearing, with his father, in Annette Kellerman's act at the Los Angeles Orpheum Theatre. In this act the tot did a take off on the dignified David Warfield. Around this youngster with the mischievous brown eyes, Chaplin began building a story which was virtually a chapter out of his own life in the London slums. Even the garret room in the film is said to have been modeled after one in which he had lived with his mother. In the fall of 1919 Chaplin used Jackie Coogan as an extra in some of the crowd scenes of "A Day's Pleasure," to accustom him to the camera. After finishing "A Day's Pleasure," Chaplin set to work on "The Kid." As it developed the story demanded more than the planned footage. Most of 1920 was spent shooting the film, a time coinciding with the Harris divorce suit. Chaplin's investment came to $300,000, a sum much larger than he had