Charlie Chaplin in this scene of “City Lights” shows the sheer joy of being happy for someone else. When he finally sees her again months later after he gets out of jail he sees that she now has her sight back and he is ecstatic.
The 11th of 12 Mutual Short films - released June 17, 1917
The end of the film - 2 young immigrants getting married on a doleful rainy day.
“The Immigrant touched me more than any other film I made” - Charles Chaplin “My Life in Pictures”
Charlie Chaplin in this scene of “City Lights” shows the sheer joy of being happy for someone else. When he finally sees her again months later after he gets out of jail he sees that she now has her sight back and he is ecstatic.
Charlie Chaplin works with camera ~Sanger
Charlie Chaplin in Truckee, California shooting on “The Gold Rush” in 1924.
Charlie Chaplin was his own boss and had no one to answer to but himself.
Charlie directed, starred, produced, financied, wrote, edited and went back later on and scored the music for the films he owned from 1918.
I just love this gif..it is from his 11th of 12 Mutual short films, released on June 17th 1917 called “The Immigrant”
Charlie is on the ship coming over to the U.S., when the film starts you see Charlie bent way over the side and you think he is getting sea sick, when he pops back up he is holding a fish and the look on his face shows he is just so damn pleased with himself…very cute smile.
Oh that beautiful smile of his!!
Charlie Chaplin looking quite dapper in his riding clothes, Chaplin Studios circa 1918.
Ironically despite the riding clothes, Charlie was not a big fan of horses or horse back riding.
The only one it seemed who could get him on one was Doug Fairbanks, Doug would take Charlie and a bunch of others on an early early morning ride, Charlie or perhaps one of the other guys on these excursions said “the only good reason for a man to be up at dawn is having a woman in his bed” :)
This is not an often seen photo of Charlie & Scraps from his 1918 film
”A DOG’S LIFE” (his real name was Mut).
Mut was just crazy about Charlie, after Charlie finished the film he left on a Liberty Loan War Bond Tour and was gone for a few weeks, it is said that poor Mut missed him so much he stopped eating and died of a broken heart :(
I love this pic, you can tell how much love they had for each other :)
I know that is why the story of how Mut died of a broken heart is all the more sadder :(
What a gorgeous lobby card for “Shoulder Arms”. I love the way he looks at her he did those eyes a lot and they were not even romantically involved at this time.
A sweet scene in Behind the screen (Mutual, 1916). Charlie is “tasting” Edna’s lips as if he was tasting wine.
This is quite a funny scene, Charlie mistakes Edna for a boy, when he discovers his misunderstanding she begs him to not let anyone else know, she needs a job so is disguising herself as a stage hand. He takes advantage of the situation by stealing kisses from her, his boss comes upon them and now he thinks Charlie is making out with a boy.
THE GOLD RUSH - 1925
In the original version of The Gold Rush Georgia (Georgia Hale) seemed to take some pleasure in having fun at the “little fellows” expense even if his feelings were hurt in the process, when he released the film again in 1942 with him narrating he changed the storyline a bit making Georgia more sympathetic towards the tramp.
In the 1925 original release he gave no indication he was aware she was fooling.
