The Silence of Charlie Chaplin
The infamous Charlie Chaplin was born to parents of whom both were themselves entertainers. As a result, Charlie took to the stage early on in life. Born in Walworth, London in the UK back in April of 1889, by the time he reached the young age of merely five years old he had to get on the stage in order to sing a song in place of his dear mother due to a recent illness she had succumbed to.
Charlie Chaplin now had a career and he was beginning to make a name for himself. As a result, he was put out on a tour to be part of the musical The Eight Lancaster Lads when he was still only 8 years of age. To further things, he even had the opportunity to appear at the London Hippodrome in Giddy Ostende.
Charlie Chaplin would join up with the English Vaudeville Troupe which was headed by Fred Karno until he was 24 years old. By this time the troupe had made its way to New York and Charlie had met up with Mack Sennet where the two would make the choice to head out to Hollwood to enter into the silent film industry.
Within no time, Charlie would be in his very first film which was entitled Making a Living. He would continue on with Mack Sennet for another 35 films before making the choice to go with Essanay where he would do an additional 14 more films. From here, Charlie Chaplin would make the move to Mutual and Finally First National. While at First National, Warner Brothers would acquire the studio. Charlie was tired of moving studios all the time so he set out to found the United Artists along with Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and D.W. Griffith. It was here in 1921 the movie the kid, Charlie’s first full-length film, would be shot and released.
Of course while everyone loved Charlie Chaplin and his films, there were those who did not. The U.S. Authorities were on the lookout for communist activities and were focusing on the motion picture industry. It was during this time that they accused Charlie of spreading communism by using his films. Shortly afterwards he went to Switzerland to where he released only 2 more films. The last film is what put an end to his career. Entitled A Countess from Hong Kong and released in 1967, this movie flopped in the box offices and was the only failure in his entire career. On Christmas day of 1977, Charlie Chaplin would pass away.
