With the advent of sound in movies, Chaplin seemed to be fading into irrelevance. Instead, he comes back with his three greatest masterpieces, 'City Lights', 'Modern Times' and 'The Great Dictator'. Host Aaron Strand gives a full account of Chaplin's life including his marriage to Paulette Goddard, his bromance with Winston Churchill and his war against Adolf Hitler.

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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

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