my favorite person
Slightly non-traditional picspam...I mixed it up a little, but I think it's fun. ;)
My interest in Chaplin went from a distinct fondness to a significant mania within the last year and a half or so, thus...
THE MAN
"I am what I am: an individual, unique and different, with a lineal history of an ancestral promptings and urgings, a history of dreams, desires, and of special experiences, of all of which I am the sum total."
"I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man."
FAMILY: THE (MANY) WOMEN IN HIS LIFE & CHILDREN*
"My only enemy is time."
HIS MOVIES
"I had no idea of the character. But the moment I was dressed, the clothes and the make-up made me feel the person he was. I began to know him, and by the time I walked onto the stage he was fully born."
THE KID
THE GOLD RUSH
"All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl."
THE CIRCUS
CITY LIGHTS
MODERN TIMES
"More than machinery, we need humanity."
THE GREAT DICTATOR
(after repeatedly being "accused" of being Jewish):
"I'm afraid I don't have that honour."
"I am not a political man and I have no political convictions. I am an individual and a believer in liberty. That is all the politics I have. On the other hand I am not a super-patriot. Super-patriotism leads to Hitlerism - and we've had our lesson there. I don't want to create a revolution - I just want to create a few more films. I might amuse people. I hope so."
MONSIEUR VERDOUX
...AND MORE
"Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles."
YouTube VIDEOS OF AWESOME MOMENTS
The Roll Dance ................................................................................Monologue from The Great Dictator
Final scene of City Lights
Acceptance speech from 1972 Oscars (longest standing ovation in Oscar history--click to view)
"Oh, thank you so much. This is an emotional moment for me and words seem so futile, so feeble...I can only say that...thank you for the honor of inviting me here and...oh, you're wonderful, sweet people. Thank you."
WITH OTHER, ALSO AWESOME PEOPLE**
"[W.C.] Fields was wildly jealous of Chaplin and he always referred to him as 'that fucking dancer.'" -- James Lipton
A BIT OF ARTYNESS
"Smile, though your heart is aching
Smile, even though it's breaking
Although a tear may be ever so near
That's the time you must keep on trying
Smile, what's the use of crying?
You'll find that life is still worthwhile
If you'll just smile."
--music written by Charlie Chaplin
THE 1992 BIOPIC
(if you have not seen this, your life is sad and desolate)
"I'd watch one of Charlie's films, but by the end of it I was wildly depressed, because I realized that what he'd done in this twenty-minute short was more expressive and funnier than everything I've thought about doing my whole life." -- Robert Downey Jr.
AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY RANDOM
OTHER ACTING CHAPLINS***
*Photos from top left:
- Edna Purviance
- Georgie Hale
- sons Sydney and Charles Jr.
- Lita Grey and Charles Jr.
- Lita Grey
- Mildred Harris
- Paulette Goddard
- Oona O'Neill
- Oona O'Neill and four of their eight children: Eugene, Jane, Victoria and Josephine
- Oona O'Neill (twice--they were married for 34 years. When they married he was 54 and she was 18. Heh.)
**From top left:
- Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, D.W. Griffith
- Sophia Loren
- Cloris Leachman, Gene Hackman and some other dude
- Mack Sennett, film director who gave Charlie his start
- Harry Houdini
- Mahatma Gandhi
- Albert Einstein
- Orson Welles
- Marlon Brando (Charlie is dancing with his daughter)
***Left to right:
- Daughter Geraldine playing Charlie's mother (her grandmother) in Chaplin
- Granddaughter Oona in Quantum of Solace :)
Hotlinking makes little Jackie Coogan cry. D':
Crazy Halloween!Chaplin Lady hopes you enjoyed this picspam of love.
My interest in Chaplin went from a distinct fondness to a significant mania within the last year and a half or so, thus...
THE MAN
"I am what I am: an individual, unique and different, with a lineal history of an ancestral promptings and urgings, a history of dreams, desires, and of special experiences, of all of which I am the sum total."
"I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man."
FAMILY: THE (MANY) WOMEN IN HIS LIFE & CHILDREN*
"My only enemy is time."
HIS MOVIES
"I had no idea of the character. But the moment I was dressed, the clothes and the make-up made me feel the person he was. I began to know him, and by the time I walked onto the stage he was fully born."
THE KID
THE GOLD RUSH
"All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl."
THE CIRCUS
CITY LIGHTS
MODERN TIMES
"More than machinery, we need humanity."
THE GREAT DICTATOR
(after repeatedly being "accused" of being Jewish):
"I'm afraid I don't have that honour."
"I am not a political man and I have no political convictions. I am an individual and a believer in liberty. That is all the politics I have. On the other hand I am not a super-patriot. Super-patriotism leads to Hitlerism - and we've had our lesson there. I don't want to create a revolution - I just want to create a few more films. I might amuse people. I hope so."
MONSIEUR VERDOUX
...AND MORE
"Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles."
YouTube VIDEOS OF AWESOME MOMENTS
The Roll Dance ................................................................................Monologue from The Great Dictator
Click to viewFinal scene of City Lights
Acceptance speech from 1972 Oscars (longest standing ovation in Oscar history--click to view)
"Oh, thank you so much. This is an emotional moment for me and words seem so futile, so feeble...I can only say that...thank you for the honor of inviting me here and...oh, you're wonderful, sweet people. Thank you."
WITH OTHER, ALSO AWESOME PEOPLE**
"[W.C.] Fields was wildly jealous of Chaplin and he always referred to him as 'that fucking dancer.'" -- James Lipton
A BIT OF ARTYNESS
"Smile, though your heart is aching
Smile, even though it's breaking
Although a tear may be ever so near
That's the time you must keep on trying
Smile, what's the use of crying?
You'll find that life is still worthwhile
If you'll just smile."
--music written by Charlie Chaplin
THE 1992 BIOPIC
(if you have not seen this, your life is sad and desolate)
"I'd watch one of Charlie's films, but by the end of it I was wildly depressed, because I realized that what he'd done in this twenty-minute short was more expressive and funnier than everything I've thought about doing my whole life." -- Robert Downey Jr.
AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY RANDOM
OTHER ACTING CHAPLINS***
*Photos from top left:
- Edna Purviance
- Georgie Hale
- sons Sydney and Charles Jr.
- Lita Grey and Charles Jr.
- Lita Grey
- Mildred Harris
- Paulette Goddard
- Oona O'Neill
- Oona O'Neill and four of their eight children: Eugene, Jane, Victoria and Josephine
- Oona O'Neill (twice--they were married for 34 years. When they married he was 54 and she was 18. Heh.)
**From top left:
- Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, D.W. Griffith
- Sophia Loren
- Cloris Leachman, Gene Hackman and some other dude
- Mack Sennett, film director who gave Charlie his start
- Harry Houdini
- Mahatma Gandhi
- Albert Einstein
- Orson Welles
- Marlon Brando (Charlie is dancing with his daughter)
***Left to right:
- Daughter Geraldine playing Charlie's mother (her grandmother) in Chaplin
- Granddaughter Oona in Quantum of Solace :)
Hotlinking makes little Jackie Coogan cry. D':
Crazy Halloween!Chaplin Lady hopes you enjoyed this picspam of love.