Posted on 10/15/2024 3:10:52 AM PDT by Eleutheria5
That was it? Watch all this video to learn that?
Yes. It’s a facet of one of the iconic Chaplin scenes that I never knew before. It’s party of the history of the making of a great work of art. If that doesn’t float your boat, fine. Go find something that does. I love Chaplin and I love Laurel and Hardy, the Three Stooges, Robin Williams, John Candy, John Aston, Fred Gwynn, The Beverly Hillbillies, and awesome comedy in general, and I also love history. So this floats my boat. BFD.
You should have mentioned what the point was when you posted this vanity.
Maybe true in Chaplin’s private life or relationships in the early years. I was watching “Limelight” and the special features this weekend. Claire Bloom and Norman Lloyd didn’t have any complaints about his behavior on set.
Chaplin was self-taught — he even wrote the music for his movies — and like a lot of autodidacts, he didn’t like to admit that he was wrong about anything.
I’ll take Buster Keaton over Chaplin. Watching his films with live piano music is wonderful! Few theaters do that anymore.
Politics aside... Watching Charlie Chaplin in that clip made me think of Buggs bunny. The movements, the dance, the tweaking everyone with the tool...
In Chaplins time, 15 year olds were the equivalent of the average 30 year old today. Many WW 2 vets came back and married minors. My dad married my Mom who had just turned 17. My Uncle married her two years young sister at the same ceremony. This was in California. I have the pictures. Today, they are considered children, then? they were mature adolescents.
Closer to modern times, Jerry Lee Lewis married his 14-year-old cousin, and Elvis married Priscilla at a young age. In previous centuries Edgar Alan Poe married his pubescent cousin, and Loretta Lynn got married at age 13.
(and here’s some serious dirt on Tim Walz.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6uRqO_Qm5I
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