Word: chaplins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chaplin My Autobiography...
...AUTOBIOGRAPHY, by Charles Chaplin. In his account of his flamboyant life, the great comedian describes his miserably poor childhood in London in fascinating detail. Unfortunately, when he turns to love, politics, and even his happy fourth marriage to Oona O'Neill, he leaves out both fact and feeling in favor of the name-dropping prose of a standard show-biz autobiography...
...Chaplin My Autobiography...
...Sennett, looking at a hotel-lobby set, remarked that "we need some gags here," then turned to Chaplin. "Put on a comedy makeup. Anything will do." On the way to the wardrobe, Chaplin improvised the tight jacket, baggy pants and big shoes, added a small mustache for age. "I had no idea of the character. But the moment I was dressed, the clothes and the makeup made me feel the person he was. By the time I walked onto the stage he was fully born." Within two years Chaplin was making $10,000 a week...
With such stuff included, Chaplin's frequent omissions are puzzling. He never mentions the name of his second wife, Lita Grey,* mother of his two eldest sons. So much is omitted, in fact, that little is left from which to deduce Chaplin's mature feelings and beliefs-beyond his lifelong insistence that he has never been a Communist, and the apparent mellowing of his resentment against the U.S. as he grows old and turns inward to bask in the profound joy of his life with his fourth wife, Oona O'Neill, and their eight children...