Charlie Chaplin - The Lion’s Cage

9 Things You May Not Know About Charlie Chaplin • Chaplin made his stage debut as a tot. • Chaplin partly grew up in an orphanage. • Chaplin loathed his first film. • Chaplin played the same character in all but a few movies. •Chaplin quickly became a millionaire. •Chaplin resisted the arrival of 'talkies.' •Chaplin thrice married teenagers. •The United States essentially exiled him. •Grave robbers made off with Chaplin’s remains.

"What I most admire about your art, is your universality," Einstein said to Chaplin. "You don't say a word, yet the world understands you!" Chaplin replied with perfect comedic timing. LEGEND

Chaplin Once said, Life can be wonderful if you're not afraid of it. All it needs is courage, imagination ... and a little dough. Imagination means nothing without doing. Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease from pain.

Haha he was so good, my favorite movie is Modern Times, I watched it first time when I was 14.

Chaplin, one of the most financially successful stars of early Hollywood, was introduced to the stage when he was five. The son of London music hall entertainers, young Chaplin was watching a show starring his mother when her voice cracked. He was quickly shuffled onto the stage to finish the act. Chaplin refined what would soon become his legacy, the character Charlie the Tramp, and signed on with the Essanay company in 1915 for $1,250 a week, plus a $10,000 bonus–quite a jump from the $175 that Keystone paid him. The next year, he signed with Mutual for $10,000 a week, plus a $150,000 bonus under a contract that required him to make 12 films annually but granted him complete creative control over the pictures. And in 1918, he signed a contract with First National for $1 million for eight films. A masterful silent film actor and pantomimist who could elicit both laughter and tears from his audiences, Chaplin resisted the arrival of sound in movies. Indeed, in his first film that featured sound (City Lights in 1931), he only used music. His first true sound film was 1940’s The Great Dictator, in which he mocked fascism. Chaplin founded United Artists Corporation in 1919 with Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and director D.W. Griffith. Chaplin married twice more, both times to teenage girls. His fourth wife, Oona O’Neill, who was 18 when she married the 54-year-old actor, was the daughter of playwright Eugene O’Neill. Though he had lived in the United States for 42 years, Chaplin never became a U.S. citizen. A vocal pacifist, Chaplin was accused of communist ties, which he denied. Nevertheless, in 1952, immigration officials prevented Chaplin and his wife from re-entering the United States after a foreign tour. The couple did not return to the United States for 20 years; instead they settled in Switzerland with their eight children. Chaplin returned to America 1972 to accept a special Academy Award for “the incalculable effect he has had on making motion pictures the art for and of this century.” He was knighted Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin in 1975. He died two years later.

They shot the scene with him being inside a real lions cage??? 👀

wow😮😮

always the little dogs causing the trouble!

Fun Fact: In 1914 he signed with the Mutual Film Corporation for $670,000 a year, after which he agreed to make eight comedies for First National for over $1 million. Adjusted for inflation that is $20,481,297 today.

Charlie Chaplin, greatest humorist ever; he also said: “ a day without laughter is a day wasted”.