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Charlie Chaplin in Southwark

Charlie Chaplin in Southwark
Travis Roy  |  by www.mysouthwark.co.uk. All rights reserved. 18.07 | 12:14

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Bollywood Chaplin - May 04
Charlie Chaplin rsquo;s granddaughter has made her Bollywood debut. Keira Chaplin is the latest actor of foreign origin to make it big in Bollywood. She is due to star in Yatna alongside popular actor Victor Banarjee.

The 22 year old who states that her grandfather has always been a source of inspiration to her begins filming in Kolkata this month. Unseen Charlie Chaplin footage released on DVD - 10/12/02
Charlie Chaplin fans will be in for a treat with unreleased footage of him mimicking Adolf Hitler for his film The Great Dictator later this month. The film has been stored in the cellar of Chaplin rsquo;s former home in the Swiss village of Corsier-sur-Vevey for the past 70 years.

It rsquo;s the only surviving footage of his film rehearsals and is unusual because it rsquo;s in colour. It was shot in 1938 on the set of Chaplin rsquo;s first talkie and shows him dressed in a red and brown military uniform waltzing in an ornate ballroom as well as shots of him practicing the goose-step walk off-stage. Chaplin rsquo;s son Eugene says the film is extremely valuable as his father had destroyed all other rough footage.

The footage will be released on DVD at the end of the month.

Chaplain denied knighthood to appease US - 24/07/02
Walworth born comedian Charlie Chaplain was denied a knighthood until his old age because of the government rsquo;s fears of US opinion at the honour, as revealed this week in declassified Foreign Office papers released by the public record office. The veto delayed Chaplin rsquo;s knighthood until 1975, when he was 86.

The honour was originally vetoed in 1956. Chaplain died two years after receiving it. The decision to debar him came at the height of the cold war, when Britain need US support for its secretly planned invasion of Suez.

With Chaplin rsquo;s public support of various communist organisations, the Foreign Office decided to avoid giving an accolade to whom the Americans viewed as a communist sympathiser. Biography
Charles Spencer Chaplin was born on April 16, 1889 in Walworth. Charles Chaplin Sr.

and his wife Hannah Harriette Hill were Vaudeville performers. Charles was born into atmosphere of a family of entertainers. He lived a Dickensian childhood, shared with his half-brother Sydney, which included extreme poverty, workhouses and hurdles.

He did not like other children or their company and could not really relate or communicate with them. Charlie rsquo;s mother was an immense source of inspiration from whom he learned both, performance techniques and outlook of life. His mother was a singer and character comedienne in the music halls with the stage name of rsquo;Lilly Harley rsquo;.

His father was a well-known comedian, composer and a music hall baritone. His marriage to Hannah did not last long and they separated. Charlie was by his mother alone.

After separation his mother returned to stage, performing different solo acts for sometime. She did enjoy success. Charlie rsquo;s first performance was at five, when he pitched in for his mother as her voice went hoarse on stage while singing.

This singing episode was a grand success. He was so entertaining that the crowd threw coins onto the stage. The audience gave him his first taste of applause and laughter when the young Charlie stopped singing midway to retrieve the coins!

Charlie also performed noticeably for Eight Lancashire Lads ...

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Keywords: Foreign Office, Charlie Chaplin
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