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Charlie Chaplin born in london
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First music hall performance, as unplanned substitute for his mother. Chaplin reports his first time on stage. His mother’s voice failed during a performance and the young Charlie sang ‘E Dunno Where E Are’ in her place at The Canteen Theatre
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Young Charles and brother Sydney, with their mother, enter Lambeth Workhouse (for the poor). Within a few weeks the boys will be sent to Hanwell School for Orphans and Destitute Children.
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Hannah, his mother, has a mental breakdown. Charles and Sydney live for a time with Charles Sr. and his mistress. Young Charles first appears with the Lancashire Lads.
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Young Charles is controversially comic as a cat in a production of Cinderella at the London Hippodrome.
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Charles Sr. dies. Soon after Hannah enters Cane Hill Asylum.
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Chaplin appears for the first time as Billy in Sherlock Holmes. He will play the part in various productions into 1906.
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Chaplin stars in the variety show Casey's Court Circus.
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Chaplin begins performing for the Karno Troupe, joining his brother Sydney, who is largely responsible for Charles's placement.
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Chaplin leaves with a Karno Troupe for a tour of the United States and Canada.
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He opens in the Karno production The Wow Wows at the Colonial Theatre in New York City.
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Chaplin returns to England with the Karno Troupe.
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Chaplin leaves with the Karno Troupe for a second tour of the U.S. and Canada.
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He accepts an offer from the New York office of Kessel and Bauman, the parent organization for Mack Sennett's Keystone Comedy Company. But his Karno commitment will hold him until November
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Chaplin's first United Artists production -- A Woman of Paris -- opens. Chaplin writes and directs but does not star in this critically acclaimed excursion into drama.
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His second film, Kid's Auto Race, opens. It marks the first appearance of a semblance of the tramp character.
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He stars in Tillie's Punctured Romance, generally considered to be the first feature-length comedy. He signs a contract with Essanay Films, where he will make fourteen films in the next year.
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The Tramp, the first Charlie film with real pathos, appears.
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Chaplin signs contract with Mutual Films, where he will make twelve celebrated short subjects in 1916 and part of 1917. After Chaplin leaves Essanay, it puts together The Essanay-Chaplin Revue, one of the first Chaplin film anthologies. Innumerable Chaplin cavalcades have since appeared.
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: Easy Street, generally considered his best Mutual film, appears.
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Shoulder Arms is a critical and commercial success, though its World War I theme is controversial.
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Chaplin marries Mildred Harris.
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With Douglas Fairbanks, D. W. Griffith, and Mary Pickford founds United Artists. But Chaplin will not be free of his First National contract until 1923.
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Norman Spencer Chaplin, son of Charlie and Mildred is born
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On July 10, Norman dies.
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Divorced by Mildred Harris.
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The Kid is the first feature he directs.
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Chaplin provides his mother with a California home. Triumphantly returns to Europe The Idle Class, the movie.
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Chaplin's account of his 1921 trip appears as a book, My Trip Abroad.
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Chaplin's first United Artists production -- A Woman of Paris -- opens. Chaplin writes and directs but does not star in this critically acclaimed excursion into drama.
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Chaplin marries Lita Grey
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Born Charles Spencer Chaplin Jr., son of Charlie and Lita Grey in Los Angeles.
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The Gold Rush quickly becomes his most acclaimed film.
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Born Sydney Chaplin, son of Charlie and Lita Grey.
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Divorced by Lita Grey. Seemingly every stage of the proceedings has been played out in the newspapers since Grey's original filing for divorce in January.
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The Circus is a great, though often neglected, Chaplin feature.
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Hannah Chaplin dies.
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At the first Academy Award ceremony, Chaplin is honored with a special Oscar "for versatility and genius in writing, acting, directing and producing The Circus."
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City Lights finds Chaplin defying the sound era with this critical and commercial success. There is a second triumphant return to England, which eventually takes him around the world.
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Chaplin secretly marries Paulette Goddard, though mystery still surrounds the event.
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Modern Times is released: Chaplin successfully defies sound once again.
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The Screenwriters and Actors Guild awards Chaplin outstanding actor honors.
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Chaplin and Goddard visit the Far East.
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The Great Dictator sees Chaplin enter the sound era with a controversial parody of Hitler. It grosses more than any previous film by the comedian.
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The New York Film Critics vote Chaplin the best actor of the year award. Chaplin declines the honor.
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The Gold Rush is reissued with soundtrack and some very short deletions. Chaplin's spoken narration replaces titles.
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May 1942: Chaplin, as a last-minute substitute for former ambassador to the Soviet Union, Joseph E. Davies, gives a Second Front speech at an American Committee for Russian War Relief rally in San Francisco.
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Gives Second Front speech, via telephone, to a Madison Square Garden rally sponsored by the CIO.
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Divorced by Paulette Goddard in Mexico.
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Chaplin Marries Oona O'Neill, daughter of a playwright.
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Die the actress Mildred Harris, first wife of Charlie.
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The controversial Monsieur Verdoux opens.
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Chaplin is the victim of a witch-hunting press conference, save for support of James Agee.
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Born Josephine Hannah Chaplin, daughter of Charlie and Oona
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Born Victoria Chaplin, daughter of Charlie and Oona.
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Chaplin purchases an estate, the Manoir de Ban, in the village of Corsair in Switzerland. This will be his last home.
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Chaplin and family leave New York by ship, bound for Europe. Chaplin will show his young family the English haunts of his youth. While at sea, Chaplin, still a British subject, has his U.S. reentry permit cancelled. If the comedian decides to return, he will have to face more witch-hunting questions on politics and morality before any possible reentry.
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Limelight will be Chaplin's last great film. Several conservative groups all but negate its American movie theater engagements. Limelight makes the New York Times annual "Ten Best" list.
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Born Eugene Anthony Chaplin, son of Charlie and Oona.
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Born Jane Cecil Chaplin daughter of Charlie and Oona
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A King in New York provides Chaplin's last starring role.
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Born Annette Emily Chaplin, daughter of Charlie and Oona
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Born Christopher James Chaplin, son of Charlie and Oona.
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My Autobiography is published.
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Chaplin's oldest child by Oona, Geraldine, becomes a film star in her own right with the release of Doctor Zhivago.
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Sydney Chaplin dies.
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A Countess from Hong Kong is Chaplin's final film.
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Dies Charles Spencer Chaplin Jr., son of Charlie and Lita Grey in Hollywood
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Chaplin is awarded a special honorary Oscar "for the incalculable effect he has had in making motion pictures the art form of this century."
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The Venice Film Festival awards Chaplin its Golden Lion statuette.
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Chaplin wins an Oscar (with Raymond Rasch and Larry Russell) for Best Original Dramatic Score for 1972, from Limelight. The 1952 film was eligible for belated consideration because a Los Angeles theater had never previously shown the film -- an Academy rule.
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My Life in Pictures, Chaplin's final book, comes out.
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Chaplin is knighted by Elizabeth 11, Queen of England.
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Chaplin dies at his estate in Switzerland.