Charlie Chaplin is not a Jew (as has been repeatedly claimed in many quarters – “Charlie is a Jew,” the “Daily Express wrote in an editorial only this week). In a new book entitled “Charlie Chaplin: ...

Actor and filmmaker Charlie Chaplin knew the virtue of economy. Very short films in which he starred as his creation, the Little Tramp, are largely credited for his ascent in the 1910s. The Immigrant ...

Charles “Charlie” Chaplin (April 16, 1889 – December 25, 1977) was an English comic actor, film director and composer best-known for his work during the silent film era. He used mime, slapstick and ...

Scott Eyman’s new biography “Charlie Chaplin vs. America” (Simon & Schuster, publishes Oct. 31) chronicles the amazing – and still shocking – fall from grace that led Hollywood’s first global ...

Showtime documentary The Real Charlie Chaplin is a rarity, a biography that does justice to its topic, covering it from mop of curls to duck-toed boots, in two hours. Peter Middleton and James Spinney ...

In 1914, Keystone Studios released two short films that gave a world marching to war a reason to laugh. Their titles, “Kid Auto Races at Venice” and “Mabel’s Strange Predicament,” are far less ...