Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) died 14 January 1898, Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin, Jr. was born 16 April 1889
I don’t think I’d describe them as best buds.
I doubt I’d describe Chaplin as “his pervert Communist sidekick”, that’s a pretty harsh description of a kid who couldn’t have been more than eight years old at the time.
*shrug* OTOH, this thread is the first I’d heard that Chaplin was a pedophile.
Chaplin married Eugene O’Neill’s daughter Oona when she was around 17. He was in his mid 50s. They met earlier than that. Who know’s what happened but innuendo is a powerful thing.
He liked teenage girls, but I haven't read anything about the true pedophilia of liking pre-pubescent girls, nor any mention of boys. He was born in 1889, and in the first half of the last century when he was alive, most women didn't go to college. It wasn't THAT unusual for some girls to get sexually involved and then married at the age of 15. Several of the girls he romanced were showgirls, whose parents were already neglectful, or were the liberals of their day.
He was widely criticized for this final (of 5 or 6) marriage to Oona O'Neill, daughter of the playwright Eugene O'Neill, when she was 18 and he was in his mid-50s; but the marriage lasted many years until his death and produced a big bunch of children, like maybe 8. I guess he finally settled down.