In this first episode, host Aaron Strand takes us to Victorian London to meet a little boy named Charles Spencer Chaplin. His father was an alcoholic singer, and his mother was in and out of the insane asylum. Chaplin overcame these extraordinary circumstances, as well as repeated failures on and off the stage, finally becoming a well respected slapstick comedian... that's when Hollywood called.

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Producer: Greg Kleinschmidt

Photography: Lola Scott

Sources:

‘Chaplin His Life and Art’ by David Robinson

'Chaplin: A Life’ by Stephen Weissman

‘Charlie Chaplin and His Times’ by Kenneth S Lynn

‘Tramp: The Life of Charlie Chaplin’ by Joyce Milton,

‘Charlie Chaplin: A Brief Life’ by Peter Ackroyd

‘Chaplin. Genius of Cinema’ by Jeffrey Vance

‘Wife of the Life of the Party’ by Lita Grey and Jeffrey Vance

‘My Autobiography’ by Charlie Chaplin

‘Charlie Chaplin’s Own Story’ by Charlie Chaplin and Rose Wilder Lane

www.discoveringchaplin.com

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