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    Born Today Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin, Jr., KBE (16 April 1889 - 25 December 1977), better known as Charlie Chaplin, was an Academy Award-winning English comedy actor. Chaplin became one of the most famous actors as well as a notable director, composer and musician in the early to mid... more

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  • Rated by dobedobedo on Apr 15 2008, 11:25pm

    Born Today Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin, Jr., KBE (16 April 1889 - 25 December 1977), better known as Charlie Chaplin, was an Academy Award-winning English comedy actor. Chaplin became one of the most famous actors as well as a notable director, composer and musician in the early to mid Hollywood cinema era. He is considered to have been one of the finest mimes and clowns ever caught on film and has greatly influenced performers in this field. He acted in, directed, scripted, produced, and eventually scored his own films. Chaplin was also one of the most creative and influential personalities in the silent-film era. His working life in entertainment spanned over 65 years, from the Victorian stage and music hall in the United Kingdom as a child performer, almost until his death at the age of eighty-eight. Chaplin's high-profile public and private life encompassed highs and lows with both adulation and controversy. His principal character was "The Tramp" (known as "Charlot" in France and the French-speaking world, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Romania, and Turkey, as "Carlinhos" in Brazil and "Carlitos" in Argentina). "The Tramp" is a vagrant with the refined manners and dignity of a gentleman. The character wears a tight coat, oversized trousers and shoes, and a derby; carries a bamboo cane; and has a signature toothbrush moustache. Quotations 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. My Autobiography (p. 271 Simon and Schuster 1964 edition) Life is a beautiful magnificent thing, even to a jelly fish. Limelight (Calvero's answer to Terry's question: "What is there to fight for?") You'll never find rainbows if you're looking down. Swing High Little Girl (opening song sung by Charlie Chaplin for The Circus.)

  • Rated by madnicity on Dec 01 2007, 7:30am

    I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.