Charles Spencer Chaplin was born on 16th April 1889 inWalworth, London. His parents, Charles Chaplin, Sr and Hannah Hill were music hall entertainers but seperated shortly after Charles was born, leaving Hannah to provide for her children. He lived a Dickensian childhood, shared with his elder brother, Sydney, that included extreme poverty, workhouses and seeing his mother's mental decline put her into an institution. In 1896 when Hannah was no longer able to care for her children, Charlie and his brother Sydney were admitted to Lambeth Workhouse and later, Hanwell School For Orphans And Destitute Children. He ......... about that days in his book 'My Autobiography' as follows: "I was hardly aware of a father, and do not remember him having lived with us. He too was a vaudevillian, a quiet, broading man with dark eyes. Mother said he looked like Napoleon. He had a light baritone voice and a very fine artist. Even in those days he earned the considerable sum of forty paunds a week. !
The trouble was that he drank too much, which Mother said was the cause of their seperation. It was difficult for vaudevillians not to drink in those days, for alcohol was solld in all theat
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