slaughterhouse near where he lived. Charlie and other youngsters chased the sheep around, laughing and having fun. But when it was taken away, Charlie realized the sad finality of death and cried to his mother. That incident paved the way for the theme of Charlie's future filmmaking career. Comedy mixed with pathos made perfect sense to him. He was also an everyman character, a lost soul, a wanderer - he embodied the American soul. He could be anyone. Chaplin was born Sir Charles Chaplin after his father on April sixteenth, 1989. His mother, Hannah Chaplin, was often put in mental houses and his brother Sydney and him were put into children's workhouses. His father whom he almost never saw died of alcoholism. Charlie's childhooCharlie directed and produced it. Its length is six reels, roughly an hour long. The Kid expertly showed Charlie's use of pathos in his work, if perhaps too much pathos this time

The Gold Rush. This 1925 film was a favorite of Chaplin's. Charlie plays a lone prospector on a gold seeking quest in the Sierra Nevadas. Seeing shelter, he stumbles into a cabin where the villainous Black Larson lives. Black Larson doesn't lik

my work. It has none. I leave such subjects for the lecture platform. To entertain is my first consideration." This was Chaplin's last stand against sound film, and his character, the little tramp, appears for the last time.

thing. This was due to salary arguments and differences in the way Chaplin and

Sennett viewed comedy. He then signed with Essanay studios for a short while, and had the first million-dollar contract with First National. In 1919, Chaplin formed United Artists with friends and stars Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, and director D.W.Griffith. He married Lita Grey November 24th, 1924. She was a young star of sixteen in his film The Gold Rush. She turned out to be a temptation to him and became pregnant, forced to marry Chaplin and lose her role in his film. He was said to have married Lita so he wouldn't go to jail and because of pressure from her mother, and in his autobiography he barely mentioned her. Charlie had many young girls in his life, but his one true love was Oona O'Neil. He was fifty-four, she was eighteen. They had eight chilren together, and never divorced. He died in their home

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