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My Autobiography
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My Autobiography

BuchKartoniert, Paperback
Verkaufsrang266347inKunst

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"The best autobiography ever written by an actor. An astonishing work." -Chicago Tribune

Chaplin's heartfelt and hilarious autobiography tells the story of his childhood, the challenge of identifying and perfecting his talent, his subsequent film career and worldwide celebrity. In this, one of the very first celebrity memoirs, Chaplin displays all the charms, peculiarities and deeply-held beliefs that made him such an endearing and lasting character.

Re-issued as part of Melville House's Neversink Library, My Autobiography offers dedicated Chaplin fans and casual admirers alike an astonishing glimpse into the the heart and the mind of Hollywood's original genius maverick.

Take this unforgettable journey with the man George Bernard Shaw called "the only genius to come out of the movie industry" as he moves from his impoverished South London childhood to the heights of Hollywood wealth and fame; from the McCarthy-era investigations to his founding of United Artists to his "reverse migration" back to Europe, My Autobiography is a reading experience not to be missed.
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ISBN/GTIN978-1-61219-192-8
ProduktartBuch
EinbandKartoniert, Paperback
Erscheinungsdatum01.07.2012
ReiheNeversink
Seiten528 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
Artikel-Nr.5435819
KatalogBuchzentrum
Datenquelle-Nr.22842886
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SIR CHARLES SPENCER "CHARLIE" CHAPLIN was born in 1889 in London to impoverished parents. He began performing at age ten as a member of a juvenile clog-dance troupe. In 1913, while he was touring with a vaudeville act in the US, Keystone films recruited Chaplin to make films. In only his second short-Kid Auto Races at Venice-he debuted his "Little Tramp" character, and his fame quickly exploded. He went on to write, direct, and star in some of the most critically acclaimed movies ever made, including the classics The Gold Rush, City Lights, The Great Dictator, Monsieur Verdoux, and Modern Times-for which he also wrote the song "Smile," still a standard. In 1919 he founded the United Artists film studio along with Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D.W. Griffith, and in 1929, the first year of the Academy Awards, he won an award for "versatility and genius" in The Circus. But Chaplin's career took a dark turn during the McCarthy era, when he was accused of "un-American activities" and monitored by the FBI; he would later satirize the McCarthy committee in his A King in New York, but when he visited the UK in 1952 his re-entry permit to the US was revoked. Objecting to what he described as "lies and propaganda by powerful reactionary groups", he moved with his family to Switzerland, where he would live until his death on Christmas day 1977.

DAVID ROBINSON is a film critic and author and a biographer of Charlie Chaplin. His Chaplin: His Life and Art is regarded as the definitive book on the subject.