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the twenties, earning between two and a half million, which is on record as the domestic gross, and a total of five million in all. Chaplin himself profited more than two million on it.
For the feminine lead in "The Gold Rush" Lita Grey was first chosen and then withdrawn. The girl who finally received the assignment was Georgia Hale, whom Chaplin discovered in Josef von Sternberg's "The Salvation Hunters." This was a low cost experimental film which Chaplin sponsored after it was brought to his attention by the actor George K. Arthur. Probably referring to Miss Compson's striking performance in the prostitute role in "The Miracle Man" (1919), Chaplin hailed Miss Hale in "The Salvation Hunters" as "better than Betty Compson."
In "The Gold Rush," impersonating a hard, impulsive, and fiery-tempered dancehall girl — a Chaplin heroine quite different from the pretty and agreeable Edna Purviance — Georgia Hale gives a performance of considerable verve although there are moments when she slips into some stilted acting conventions of the period. After an appearance in Paramount's "The Rainmaker," "The Last Moment," and a few other films, she faded out and today is a Los Angeles dancing teacher.
Mack Swain, as the humorless and much suffering Big Jim, gave his top performance. Hired at the comparatively low salary of $250 a week, Chaplin foretold that "The Gold Rush" would bring him big offers from other producers. The prophecy came true and Swain prospered in outstanding pictures until his death in 1935.
For his assistants Chaplin had the reliable Chuck Riesner again as associate director. He also carried the Frenchman, d'Arrast, over from "A Woman of Paris" as an assistant director. Eddie Sutherland, becoming impatient with delays, left for a directing post at Paramount, ar