As far back as his U.S. tours with the Fred Karno company in 1911/12, Chaplin brought along his cello and...
Before the sound era, filmmakers were at the mercy of the pit musicians in various theaters—Chaplin included. Even when cue...
Even before the 1942 revision of THE GOLD RUSH, Chaplin mentioned in interviews a desire to rerelease THE CIRCUS with a newly...
One of the joys of researching my book is discovering musical nuggets in Chaplin’s films that contemporary audiences in his day may have...
By the time THE CIRCUS was released in 1928, the Little Tramp personified the time-honored notion of the tragic clown smiling...
“The world has Chaplinitis,” said a reporter for Motion Picture Magazine in 1915. “Any form of expressing Chaplin is what...
Two forks, a couple of baked goods, and sixty seconds of pantomime bliss. It’s one of Chaplin’s and cinema’s most iconic scenes—the...
In the 1923 compilation score for A WOMAN OF PARIS, Louis F. Gottschalk worked in a brief quote of his...
The expressions on the faces of Edna Purviance & Co. in the image that leads this post may be sour,...
On December 4, 1935, the air on the MODERN TIMES recording stage was crackling with tension. Chaplin had already postponed...
Georgia, Georgia,The whole day through.Just an old sweet songKeeps Georgia on my mind. Had Hoagy Carmichael’s classic song from 1930...
