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Charles Chaplin’s a Woman of Paris
Charles Chaplin’s A Woman of Paris was one of the most influential films of the silent era, occupying a place somewhat equivalent to…
Charlie Chaplin
Interviews, transcripts, and criticism on Charlie Chaplin in the Scraps archive.
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7 articlesA Chaplin Overwiew – By Richard Schickel
It is, I think, a measure not merely of Chaplin’s art, but of his really incredible ego, that one simply cannot find an…
Chaplin Interviewed by Richard Meryman (1966)
In 1966, Chaplin granted several extensive interviews to journalist Richard Meryman for a Life magazine article to promote 'A Countess from Hong Kong.'…
Chaplin: History and Mystery
The Tramp. The Little Fellow. Naturally the obituaries were full of those terms, full of references to the bowler-hatted, cane-swinging, corner-skidding outsider who…
Chaplin: The Antagonism of the Comic Hero
The following article was published at the time of Chaplin’s death in the periodical La Città Futura by Pietro Ingrao, then the president…
Charlie Abroad – By Charles Chaplin
The adventures of the great comedian Charlie Chaplin, told by himself. Published on Photoplay Magazine, January 1922 issue
Charlie Chaplin: Portrait of the Moralist – Essay by Robert Payne
Charlie, who represents to such an extraordinary degree the whole human race caught in its habitual rattrap, does kick off his shoes, and…
The Great Dictator (1940) | Review by Dilys Powell
After nearly thirty years, then, of playing one character in one set of clothes, Chaplin takes on a double role. The subject of…