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Charlie Chaplin & World Wars
- 1. Sir Charles Stephen Chaplin, more recognized as Charlie Chaplin was a British actor, producer and
comedy director who became the biggest star of silent-film era in the 20th century
- His first job as an actor was in the series of Sherlock Holmes where he interprets a paperboy at his
age of 14.
- $150.00 at week, thanks to his role in the Karno Troupe.
- Charlie´s debut was in 1914 in a film call Make a Living.
- he called his character “the little tramp”
- At the age of 26 he was already recognized as a superstar and also one of the best paid ones.
- He started his own company United Artists with Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford and D.W Griffith in 1919
- He married four times and had ten kids
- 1972 when he received an Academy Award from the Motion Picture Academy
- In 1966 Chaplin´s last movie was released, A Countess from Hong Kong, which was the first and
only color movie Chaplin made.
- 2. Chaplin´s films where recognized for being a critic to the authority (represented as police officers)
and modernity (represented by industrialization).
- Third Liberty Loan
- Shoulder Arms
- The Great Dictator
- Even though he couldn´t participate in war as a militar, he participated being a big critic of it and showing across his movies.