Word: chaplinitis
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...Skouras, formed an independent company three years ago with his brother, Spyros S. Skouras, 34. CJ Sam Goldwyn Jr., 31, son of Old Guard Cinemogul Samuel Goldwyn, 73, has independently produced Man with the Gun, The Shark fighters, and the soon-to-be-released The Proud Rebel. ¶ Charles Chaplin Jr., 32, and his nine-months-younger brother Sydney appeared with their father in Limelight, have duckwalked away on their own: Sydney plays opposite Judy Holliday in Broadway's Bells Are Ringing; Charles Jr. is a suspicious cop in MGM's High School Confidential. Also...
Started by Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Charles Chaplin and D. W. Griffith, United Artists had been skidding for years, was on the verge of bankruptcy because its two surviving owners. Chaplin and Pickford. could not agree on how to run it. Krim agreed to take over, but drove a hard bargain. He and Benjamin got control of the company for nothing. If they turned a profit within three years, they were to get half the 20,000 shares outstanding at $1 a share...
...screen his 17 films-among them such comic classics as Kind Hearts and Coronets, The Lavender Hill Mob, The Man in the White Suit and The Captain's Paradise-have won him a world audience as one of the most subtle and profound of all the clowns since Chaplin, and as a jackpudding genius of hilarious disguise...
...CHARLIE CHAPLIN ''played the violin left-handed." He was "moody" and in his "black periods" would tell Dagmar of the poverty of his London childhood. He had loved "the little girl who lived next door [and] vowed that some day when he conquered the world, he would return and marry her . . . When he was well established, he returned to Whitechapel to claim his little bride. Just as he started to climb to her little room, a tiny white casket was carried down the stairs. . . . She had died of starvation while waiting for him." Charlie "would cry while telling...
...attack on Pearl Harbor. From a onetime lady-in-waiting at the Czarist court, whom he found in New Jersey, Stuart once got 8,000 precious feet of royal family life, including the Czar swimming in the buff. Sometimes unusual film gets scrapped. Example: a shot of Charlie Chaplin doing a little jig for visiting Winston Churchill in Hollywood in 1929. Twentieth Century Producer Burton ("Bud") Benjamin reluctantly threw it out of his hour-long show on Churchill (TIME, Oct. 28) because "it had no place in our story...