Chaplin and Sydney flee with the footage, finish editing it in a Salt Lake City hotel, then smuggle it back to Los Angeles. Harris's divorce lawyers claim Chaplin's film The Kid as an asset. This sparks a 40-year-long vendetta by Hoover. Edgar Hoover about actor/directors and propaganda. Chaplin tells Fairbanks that he must marry Harris because she is pregnant but later learns it is a hoax. He sets up his own studio and becomes 'the most famous man in the world' before his 30th birthday. Years later, at a party thrown by Douglas Fairbanks, Chaplin dates child actress Mildred Harris. In 1917, he completes work on his politically sensitive The Immigrant and starts a two-year relationship with actress Edna Purviance. After Sydney becomes his manager, Chaplin breaks from Sennett to gain complete creative control over his films, with the goal of one day owning his own studio. He creates the Tramp persona, and due to the terrible directorial abilities of Sennett's girlfriend Mabel Normand, he becomes his own director.

In America, Chaplin is employed by famous comedy producer Mack Sennett. He begins a relationship with dancer Hetty Kelly and soon proposes to her, but she declines, reasoning she is too young. Over the years, Chaplin and his brother Sydney gain work with variety producer Fred Karno, who later sends him to the United States.

Hannah is eventually committed to an asylum after developing psychosis. After his mother Hannah loses her voice onstage, five-year-old Charlie takes her place. The film received mixed reviews Downey's titular performance, however, garnered critical acclaim and won him the BAFTA Award for Best Actor along with nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actor and Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama.Īn elderly Charlie Chaplin reminisces during a conversation with George Hayden, the fictionalized editor of his autobiography.Ĭhaplin escapes his poverty-stricken childhood by immersing himself in the world of London's variety circuit. The original music score was composed by John Barry. Associate producer Diana Hawkins got a story credit. The film was adapted by William Boyd, Bryan Forbes and William Goldman from Chaplin's 1964 book My Autobiography and the 1985 book Chaplin: His Life and Art by film critic David Robinson. It also features Charlie Chaplin's own daughter, Geraldine Chaplin, in the role of his mother, Hannah Chaplin. It was produced and directed by Richard Attenborough and stars Robert Downey Jr., Marisa Tomei, Dan Aykroyd, Penelope Ann Miller and Kevin Kline. Chaplin is a 1992 biographical comedy-drama film about the life of English comedian Charlie Chaplin.

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