Actor and filmmaker Charlie Chaplin knew the virtue of economy. Very short films in which he starred as his creation, the Little Tramp, are largely credited for his ascent in the 1910s. The Immigrant ...

Charlie Chaplin is not a Jew (as has been repeatedly claimed in many quarters – “Charlie is a Jew,” the “Daily Express wrote in an editorial only this week). In a new book entitled “Charlie Chaplin: ...

In 1914, Keystone Studios released two short films that gave a world marching to war a reason to laugh. Their titles, “Kid Auto Races at Venice” and “Mabel’s Strange Predicament,” are far less ...

Scott Eyman’s new biography “Charlie Chaplin vs. America” (Simon & Schuster, publishes Oct. 31) chronicles the amazing – and still shocking – fall from grace that led Hollywood’s first global ...

Showtime documentary The Real Charlie Chaplin is a rarity, a biography that does justice to its topic, covering it from mop of curls to duck-toed boots, in two hours. Peter Middleton and James Spinney ...

Then Lita decided she would name five actresses he had slept with Then a fire destroyed the set, and the firemen destroyed what the fire didn't destroy Then the tax man came in, and my father owed $1 ...