MY FAVOURITE FAMOUS PERSON.

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MY FAVOURITE FAMOUS PERSON

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Charles Spencer Chaplin was born in London in 1889. His father, Charles Chaplin, was an actor of Jewish origin, and a famous cellist, alcoholic, she abandoned her children and died very young. His mother, Hannah was a singer and dancer, alcoholic, took care of the two children, Sydney and Chaplin. Charles replaced her mother in the theater one day when she got hoarse. With the same song her mother five years, Charles had a memorable success. From that day acted Charles and stopped acting her mother (Taylor, 1993. This enabled him in a few years become a great acting ability for comedy and mime. When the mother went crazy and was Chaplin himself who led his mother to a madhouse. Chaplin brothers spent the seasons between orphanages and other charities. When his mother died, Sydney, his older brother and he lived on charity and odd jobs in the streets and in the theater. His life was extremely poor. The boy made a living singing and miming the streets of London from the 12 years Charles worked on several theater companies.

In 1907 he joined the company of "sketch" comedy Fred Krano, and within a year became the star of the company on a tour of the United States, where two years later he moved on.

Between 1914 and 1923 Chaplin plays, wrote, played music, photography supervised, directed and produced no fewer than 69 films. He shot 35 films in Keystone, many of which addressed. There he honed his craft and spent by other companies to have own studio in 1917. At that time made short memorable. He created in 1919, with Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford and DW Griffith United Artists Corporation, which participate until 1952.

Between 1925 and 1928 the talkies worries Chaplin, who had seen him fall to directors and stars of silent films. His next film, despite including sounds, music or twister, remained essentially mute mime and pantomime even though the film entered fully into the sound.

He wrote two books My autobiography (1964) and My Life in Film (1975). In the late 1940s and early 1950s, Chaplin was pursued by the Un-American Activities Committee for his leftist political thought; He left the United States in 1952 to start living in Switzerland. Before leaving the United States made his last great film, Limelight (1952 Limelight), full of autobiographical references, about actors and theater. In 1972 he returned for a short period of time to receive several awards, including an honorary Oscar for his contributions to cinema. Chaplin was knighted in 1975 at the age of 85 years by Queen Elizabeth II.

In 1918, he married actress Mildred Harris and in 1919, had her first son, Norman, who lived only three days. They divorced in 1920. In 1924, he married Lita Grey with whom he had two sons, Charles and Sydney. In 1941, he also divorced Paulette Goddard in 1943 and remarried with Oona O'Neill, daughter of playwright Eugene O'Neill. She was 18 and he 54; they had two children, Geraldine and Michael John. Three of his children, Josephine and Geraldine Sydney, also dedicated to the show.

At dawn on December 25, 1977, he died at his home in Corsier-Sur-Vevey, Switzerland, surrounded by his children, grandchildren and his late wife, after suffering a stroke in his sleep. Chaplin was buried in the cemetery of Corsier-sur-Vevey. The March 1, 1978, his coffin was dug up and stolen from his grave by two unemployed immigrants

Chaplin was excellent mime, frustrated by his own dramatic actor, a great director, an acceptable musician, played the cello, he composed the music for most of his films and was mostly one of the great magicians of the history of cinema.

His most notable films are: The Kid (1921), The Pilgrim (1924), The Gold Rush (1925), The Circus (1928), City Lights (1931) and Modern Times (1936), all successive records box office. To these followed The Great Dictator (1940), Monsieur Verdoux (1947), where his character of Charlie Chaplin, Limelight (1952) and A King in New York (1957) appears for the last time. Besides directed without you starred, A Woman of Paris (1923) and A Countess from Hong Kong (1966), which makes a small role. He also composed the music for most of his films

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