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December 1916.
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The Society for
Psychical Research
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whose publications include
"Phantasms of The Living"
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and "Human Personality and
Its Survival Of Bodily Death"
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are reporting an
extraordinary phenomenon.
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Mr. Charles Chaplin,
motion picture comedian,
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has been cited in
hundreds of places,
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simultaneously. Subs/Sync: PTNK.
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From the Atlantic
to the Pacific,
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from the Canadian
boundary to the Gulf,
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people wait at stations
to see Mr. Chaplin.
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In the same hour,
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crowds are gathering at
hotels across the country.
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"Have you got the Chaplin-oia?"
asks one newspaper.
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Others report the Chaplin Fever,
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the Chaplin Craze,
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Charlie-mania.
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"Chaplin-it is,"
runs one headline,
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"Has spread across America."
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Bootlegs, counterfeits, and
imitators flood the market.
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Lookalike contests spring
up across the globe.
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It's rumored that Chaplin
himself entered such a contest
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and came 20th.
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People demand to know,
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"Who is the Real
Charlie Chaplin?"
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When we think of
Charlie Chaplin,
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we picture this man.
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This is the moment he first
steps on to the screen.
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And he looks at us.
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He reappears soon
after in other films.
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Here he is again.
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And here.
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And he keeps looking at us.
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But this is not Charlie Chaplin.
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This man has no name.
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He has no fixed address.
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No family.
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No set point in space or time.
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You can't pin him down.
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The only constants
are the hat, the cane,
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the boots and the mustache.
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Sometimes just the mustache.
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So who is he?
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He's been called the little man.
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The little fellow.
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The Tramp.
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He's a character played
by Charlie Chaplin.
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"The Tramp" will make
Chaplin more famous
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than any king,
queen, or emperor.
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More famous than any
philosopher, artist,
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or religious figure.
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Famous in a way that
no one has been before.
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Chaplin makes "The Tramp" and
"The Tramp" makes Chaplin.
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You can't see one without
looking at the other.
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They tell each other's stories.
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So where do we start?
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Here's how Chaplin starts.
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1889 begins with a total
eclipse of the sun.
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This year, the Eiffel
tower opens to the public.
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Adolph Hitler is born.
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In Kyoto, Nintendo is founded.
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They make playing cards.
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Electric streetlights are
being installed in London
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where Jack the Ripper
remains at large.
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The pizza margarita is invented.
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They're still working
on the aero plane.
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This is how movies look in 1889.
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89.
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These are
recordings of the human voice.
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Of birdsong.
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Of music.
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Film grows up alongside Chaplin.
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It captures the London
streets he roams as a kid.
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The children he plays with.
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This is the
voice of Effie Wisdom.
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Captured on tape
when she was 92 years old.
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It takes 12
days for the Karno Company
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to cross the Atlantic.
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- 12 days in a rat.
- Infested cattle boat.
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At first sight of land,
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one young man leans
over the railing
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and screams out.
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They embark on a grueling
tour of the continent.
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Playing three shows a day.
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Fred Karno's brand
of knockabout comedy
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is intensely physical.
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He teaches his
comics how to trip.
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How to tumble, slide and fall.
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How to take a punch.
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How to fall down a
flight of stairs.
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They're the best
in the business.
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And wherever they go,
one performer stands out.
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But his tour mates
can't work him out.
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Offstage, he's quiet,
moody and reclusive.
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He's usually shabby
in appearance.
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Then, without warning,
he'll dress to Kill.
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He teaches himself the
cello, ancient Greek, yoga.
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But above all he vows that
he will not return poor.
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In California, a
fortune teller tells him
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he will soon enter a new field
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in which he will earn
a tremendous fortune.
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They say that fortunes are
there to be made in America.
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The oil boom has created
millionaires overnight.
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Henry Ford has devised
the modern assembly line.
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And Nickelodeon's opening in
cities across the country,
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showing motion picture
comedies around the clock.
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But Chaplin isn't
impressed by the movies.
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He thinks they're a passing fad.
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Mr. Chaplin got
into motion pictures purely,
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in my mind, by accident.
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This is the
voice of Mack Sennett,
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pioneer of movie comedy,
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founder of Keystone Studios,
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specialists in custard pie
warfare and high-speed chases,
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the Mack Sennett Bathing
Girls, the Keystone Kops.
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I have a comedian
working for me at the time.
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His name was Ford Sterling.
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He was a chief of
the Keystone Kops.
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One day Sterling quits.
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I said, " shucks".
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Suddenly
Sennett needs a new lead.
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Right away, I
thought of a comedian
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that I'd seen in an
English act called,
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"A Night in the
London Music Hall."
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I couldn't remember
the name at the time,
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but I wired to New York to
associates to find this man.
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And I said, his name is
Champion, Chaprin, or Chambers,
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or something like that.
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So they traced him in
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and they found him in a
small town in Pennsylvania.
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Sennett offers him $150 a week,
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three times the money
he's getting now.
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He decides he'll stick
it out for a year.
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And if Ford Sterling
had continued with me,
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the chances are that Chaplin
would have returned to England
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and we'd have probably
missed the greatest comedian
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we've ever seen.
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This is
Chaplin telling the story
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in a 1966 interview
for "Life Magazine."
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It's one of the
only times Chaplin has allowed
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a tape recorder
within these walls.
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The million dollar question.
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He's been asked this countless
times by journalists.
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And also by lawyers.
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This man looks familiar.
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The hat, the mustache.
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But this is not Charlie Chaplin.
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In the 1920s, this
man releases a series
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of knockoff Chaplin films
under the name Charles Aplin.
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Chaplin sues Aplin
and the trial delves
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into the origins of the Tramp.
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Firstly, Aplin claims he
wasn't imitating Chaplin.
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He was imitating Billy West,
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the famous Chaplin impersonator.
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"Aplin's Chaplin isn't
Chaplin," says Aplin.
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Aplin's Chaplin is an imitation
of an imitation of Chaplin.
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"Besides, if anyone should
be on trial for imitation,"
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says Aplin, "It's Chaplin."
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Two of Chaplin's
Karno colleagues,
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Fred Kitchen and Billy Ritchie,
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both claim that Chaplin's Tramp
is an imitation of theirs.
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"I was the first says," Ritchie,
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who goes on to make a living
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producing knockoff
Chaplin films.
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But Aplin and Chaplin, Ritchie
and Kitchen are all following
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in the wake of a great
wave of tramp comedians
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who have been touring
the vaudeville circuit
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since the late 19th century.
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These comedians are
themselves inspired
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by real tramps.
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The drifters who crisscross
America in search of work.
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The homeless Chaplin grew up
with on the streets of London.
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These men are more
likely to see the inside
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of a police cell
than a movie studio.
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But in Chapman's
telling the creation
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of his Tramp is spontaneous.
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He's just made his screen debut,
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a clear knockoff of his
predecessor Ford Sterling.
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And the reviews aren't good.
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In fact, the
shoes were Sterling's,
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the trousers, Fatty Arbuckle's
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and the hat belonged
to somebody's father.
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The costume isn't stolen,
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but it's assembled, magpie-like,
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from bits of other costumes.
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And so, we're
back here, February, 1914.
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The moment he first
steps onto the screen
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and looks at us.
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And this time the
reviews aren't half bad.
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And it's not just New York.
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Why is Chaplin fever
spreading across the world?
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What is it about
this little Tramp?
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Well, he's funny.
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He can take any situation
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and make it silly.
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But it's more than that.
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In a society sharply
defined by class,
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the Tramp not only
stands up to the man.
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He gives them a kick up
the arse for good measure.
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To the millions of migrants,
dreaming of a new life,
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the Tramp is someone
without a nation.
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Someone who has no language,
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but who speaks to everyone.
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And in a world divided
by bitter conflict,
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the Tramp can make you laugh,
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whichever side you're on.
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The Tramp defies the
boundaries of identity.
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He blurs gender and sexuality.
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He upends authority and class.
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He's a nobody
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and he belongs to everybody.
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In the work house.
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Chaplin dreamed
of becoming rich,
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famous and beloved.
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He's now the highest
paid actor in the world.
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The most famous man alive.
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So all the
adulation, it's not for me.
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It's for the little man.
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First impression was the eyes.
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They could be so warm and so
cold in a flash of a second.
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Because he was a
charmer, you know.
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Charlie
was a great exhibitionist.
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Very flamboyant.
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He put on a great show.
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He loved to talk on any subject,
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pretend that he was a rebel
and a radical politically.
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And he had the means
of making people think
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that he was a very
profound reader,
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when actually I think
he read the first page
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of a number of books
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and made people think
he read the whole thing.
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Charlie was always acting.
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Always on show, always
the entertainer.
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He didn't want people to
know the real Charlie.
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One's bound to be insecure
with a childhood like his.
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He never felt anybody loved him.
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He never believed it.
238
00:35:02,183 --> 00:35:04,311
He said, "Why would
anybody love me?"
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I am no psychiatrist,
240
00:35:20,785 --> 00:35:24,789
but it's easy to see that
still has a fear of poverty.
241
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Don't care how
much money he has.
242
00:35:32,797 --> 00:35:34,257
He still has fear of poverty.
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Within a few years,
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00:36:22,180 --> 00:36:24,349
Chaplin has built
his own studio,
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00:36:26,851 --> 00:36:28,728
founded a distribution company,
246
00:36:31,564 --> 00:36:34,734
liberated himself from
dependence on financial backers.
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00:36:44,369 --> 00:36:45,787
He follows no schedule.
248
00:36:47,455 --> 00:36:49,082
He doesn't even follow a script.
249
00:36:52,460 --> 00:36:54,754
He starts with a vague idea
250
00:36:55,755 --> 00:36:59,759
and replays it again
and again and again,
251
00:37:00,844 --> 00:37:02,011
until it becomes funny.
252
00:37:33,460 --> 00:37:37,172
The actors are instructed
to perform each gesture
253
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exactly as he does
254
00:37:40,550 --> 00:37:43,011
as though they are mere
extensions of his body.
255
00:37:45,847 --> 00:37:50,727
Every nuance, every
glance, he makes first.
256
00:37:53,480 --> 00:37:56,316
His assistant says that if
he could have done every job
257
00:37:56,357 --> 00:37:58,902
on set himself, he would have.
258
00:37:59,944 --> 00:38:03,490
As it is, he writes,
directs, produces,
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00:38:03,531 --> 00:38:07,160
edits, scores, and stars.
260
00:38:09,204 --> 00:38:11,956
He even tries his hand
at hair and makeup.
261
00:38:18,421 --> 00:38:21,508
Finally, when he
has total control,
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00:38:22,801 --> 00:38:25,845
he begins his most
ambitious project yet.
263
00:38:48,785 --> 00:38:52,205
It's the story of
an abandoned child.
264
00:38:54,874 --> 00:38:59,796
Of a single mother too
poor to care for him.
265
00:39:34,664 --> 00:39:37,876
In another life, the boy is
headed for the workhouse.
266
00:39:43,256 --> 00:39:46,050
But in this version, when
the authorities arrive
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00:39:46,092 --> 00:39:47,135
to take him away,
268
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he's not going without a fight.
269
00:42:04,105 --> 00:42:06,691
It's been eight years
since he left London.
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00:42:09,527 --> 00:42:11,446
And when he finally gets back,
271
00:42:13,614 --> 00:42:15,742
he hears a familiar voice.
272
00:43:14,717 --> 00:43:18,971
He finds himself
back in the attic room
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00:43:19,013 --> 00:43:21,182
of No. 3 Pownall Terrace.
274
00:43:25,645 --> 00:43:28,523
Four walls that the
Chaplin family called home.
275
00:43:32,276 --> 00:43:34,445
Where Chaplin's mother, Hannah,
276
00:43:34,487 --> 00:43:37,365
delighted him with her
costumes and impressions.
277
00:43:40,827 --> 00:43:45,331
Where she struggled to make
ends meet after her voice
278
00:43:45,373 --> 00:43:48,251
and then her stage
career failed.
279
00:43:54,006 --> 00:43:55,299
She sat at this window
280
00:43:56,384 --> 00:43:58,886
and told Charlie she
could see ghosts outside
281
00:44:01,931 --> 00:44:04,058
before she was dragged
off to the asylum.
282
00:44:13,317 --> 00:44:17,446
And Charlie's mother
hasn't left London.
283
00:44:19,490 --> 00:44:21,200
She's living in a nursing home.
284
00:44:26,080 --> 00:44:28,249
So when Chaplin
returns to America,
285
00:44:33,004 --> 00:44:34,213
he brings her with him.
286
00:44:41,429 --> 00:44:44,056
But she teeters between worlds.
287
00:44:50,855 --> 00:44:53,274
Present and past seem to blur.
288
00:44:56,694 --> 00:44:59,697
When she sees her son
dressed as a tramp, she says,
289
00:45:01,199 --> 00:45:06,245
"Charlie, I have to
get you a new suit."
290
00:45:16,505 --> 00:45:20,384
Meanwhile, her son is
making a Hollywood epic.
291
00:45:33,397 --> 00:45:38,236
One that takes the Tramp
to the ends of the earth.
292
00:45:46,244 --> 00:45:51,123
But it's themes
are closer to home.
293
00:47:13,497 --> 00:47:15,374
This is a test
294
00:47:16,292 --> 00:47:20,087
to see how my voice
records on the film.
295
00:47:23,174 --> 00:47:26,594
You are now listening to
a talking, moving picture.
296
00:47:26,635 --> 00:47:29,597
We believe an entirely
new art will be created.
297
00:47:29,638 --> 00:47:32,892
The beginning of a new
era in motion pictures.
298
00:47:41,609 --> 00:47:45,571
Suddenly the Tramp's strength
299
00:47:47,281 --> 00:47:48,908
becomes his weakness.
300
00:47:53,454 --> 00:47:54,497
He can't talk.
301
00:47:57,124 --> 00:47:58,876
What language would he speak?
302
00:48:00,920 --> 00:48:02,046
What dialect?
303
00:48:08,177 --> 00:48:11,347
1928 Warner axes all
its silent projects.
304
00:48:12,431 --> 00:48:15,393
1929 Fox follows.
305
00:48:15,434 --> 00:48:16,560
By 1930,
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00:48:18,604 --> 00:48:21,107
all the major
studios are talking.
307
00:48:23,317 --> 00:48:27,530
One by one Chaplin's
contemporaries start to talk.
308
00:48:27,571 --> 00:48:29,740
First, Laurel and Hardy.
309
00:48:29,782 --> 00:48:30,950
My trunk is packed
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00:48:30,991 --> 00:48:34,453
and I am leaving for
South America, tonight.
311
00:48:34,495 --> 00:48:36,080
Then Harold Lloyd.
312
00:48:37,164 --> 00:48:39,208
I don't know what to say.
313
00:48:39,250 --> 00:48:41,210
Well, that's nothing new, dear.
314
00:48:41,252 --> 00:48:43,295
Then, Buster Keaton.
315
00:48:43,337 --> 00:48:45,881
Well, I got a lot of
serious talking to do
316
00:48:45,923 --> 00:48:47,967
and you got a lot of
serious listening to do.
317
00:48:48,926 --> 00:48:51,637
The talky revolution is here.
318
00:48:51,679 --> 00:48:54,140
It's alive! It's alive!
319
00:48:54,390 --> 00:48:56,058
The public is going crazy
320
00:48:56,100 --> 00:48:58,310
for anything that talks.
321
00:48:58,352 --> 00:49:00,062
Wait a minute! Wait a minute!
322
00:49:00,104 --> 00:49:01,480
You ain't heard nothin'.
323
00:49:01,522 --> 00:49:04,483
But Chaplin
decides to do the unthinkable.
324
00:49:06,110 --> 00:49:07,987
He'll make a silent film.
325
00:49:26,714 --> 00:49:29,592
Like most romantic comedies,
326
00:49:29,633 --> 00:49:32,511
"City Lights"
turns on a misunderstanding.
327
00:49:35,973 --> 00:49:39,852
A blind flower girl mistakes
the Tramp for a millionaire.
328
00:49:43,397 --> 00:49:47,651
Simple enough on paper,
but there is no paper.
329
00:49:49,278 --> 00:49:51,530
Chaplin works without a script.
330
00:49:52,823 --> 00:49:55,618
And this scene is
to drive Chaplin
331
00:49:55,659 --> 00:49:58,204
and everyone around him
332
00:49:59,038 --> 00:50:01,207
to the edge of madness.
333
00:50:03,918 --> 00:50:04,960
Can you tell us
334
00:50:05,002 --> 00:50:06,545
about the shooting
of that sequence?
335
00:50:08,714 --> 00:50:09,757
Dear.
336
00:50:14,220 --> 00:50:17,723
He'd take it over and over
and over again.
337
00:50:18,849 --> 00:50:20,893
I often thought
that if he couldn't think
338
00:50:20,935 --> 00:50:22,228
what he was going to do next,
339
00:50:22,269 --> 00:50:25,022
he simply went on doing
the same shot over again
340
00:50:25,064 --> 00:50:26,232
until he thought of it.
341
00:50:30,236 --> 00:50:31,403
Chaplain agonizes
342
00:50:31,445 --> 00:50:33,447
over this mistaken
identity scene.
343
00:50:35,824 --> 00:50:37,576
It's the heart of the film.
344
00:50:37,618 --> 00:50:39,036
It has to feel right.
345
00:50:40,412 --> 00:50:42,581
He was a perfectionist.
346
00:50:42,623 --> 00:50:46,252
And to us it often seem
to be exactly the same.
347
00:50:47,962 --> 00:50:50,464
When he'd finally
say "It's a take,"
348
00:50:50,506 --> 00:50:51,924
we'd breathe a sigh of relief.
349
00:50:51,966 --> 00:50:54,635
And then he'd say, "Well,
perhaps just one more time."
350
00:51:10,818 --> 00:51:14,697
It's not
working. Why isn't it working?
351
00:51:18,659 --> 00:51:21,954
What if the rich man
buys a flower first?
352
00:51:21,996 --> 00:51:24,623
Then, no.
353
00:51:27,251 --> 00:51:28,711
Maybe it's Virginia Cherrill.
354
00:51:51,191 --> 00:51:53,569
270 days into the shoot.
355
00:51:54,486 --> 00:51:55,988
Charlie fired me.
356
00:51:57,197 --> 00:51:59,783
It's Cherrill. She's not right.
357
00:51:59,825 --> 00:52:02,161
He needs a new
flower girl and fast.
358
00:52:04,121 --> 00:52:06,832
The whole thing is going to
cost a fortune to reshoot.
359
00:52:09,710 --> 00:52:11,503
He hires Georgia Hale,
360
00:52:11,545 --> 00:52:13,505
his leading lady
from "The Gold Rush."
361
00:52:15,799 --> 00:52:17,676
He said, "I'm going to redo all
362
00:52:17,718 --> 00:52:19,219
of 'City Lights' with you."
363
00:52:21,889 --> 00:52:24,224
I'm gonna redo
the whole thing with you.
364
00:52:25,809 --> 00:52:28,604
- But, no.
- Hale's not right either.
365
00:52:30,564 --> 00:52:32,107
He tests other actresses.
366
00:52:36,904 --> 00:52:40,866
They're just not, maybe
Cherrill was the one.
367
00:52:41,992 --> 00:52:44,370
He begs Cherrill to come back.
368
00:52:50,417 --> 00:52:52,878
It's 534 days into the shoot,
369
00:52:54,588 --> 00:52:56,799
but they still haven't
got the flower scene.
370
00:53:00,594 --> 00:53:02,888
He shot an entire film
around the fulcrum
371
00:53:02,930 --> 00:53:04,390
of this mistaken identity
372
00:53:06,684 --> 00:53:08,394
and it just isn't working.
373
00:53:11,814 --> 00:53:12,898
Then it comes to him.
374
00:53:17,861 --> 00:53:19,113
A slamming door.
375
00:53:21,615 --> 00:53:24,952
The key to Chaplin's
defiantly silent opus
376
00:53:27,246 --> 00:53:28,247
iS a sound.
377
00:57:23,607 --> 00:57:28,111
At the premiere,
50,000 people turn out,
378
00:57:28,153 --> 00:57:30,322
hoping to see the Tramp
and the flower girl.
379
00:57:33,951 --> 00:57:35,702
And some speculate the romance
380
00:57:35,744 --> 00:57:37,663
may not be confined
to the screen.
381
00:57:40,791 --> 00:57:43,168
Many people
thought I was his girlfriend,
382
00:57:43,210 --> 00:57:44,211
but I wasn't.
383
00:57:46,171 --> 00:57:50,509
- I was much too old.
- I was 20.
384
00:57:54,888 --> 00:57:56,515
All four of Chaplin's wives
385
00:57:56,556 --> 00:57:58,100
were young actresses.
386
00:58:00,352 --> 00:58:02,187
Three were teenagers.
387
00:58:05,983 --> 00:58:08,360
I've asked the author
of this book to visit us.
388
00:58:08,402 --> 00:58:10,153
Her name is Lita Grey Chaplin.
389
00:58:10,195 --> 00:58:11,863
The title is "My
life With Chaplin."
390
00:58:11,905 --> 00:58:14,616
We only have one
of Chaplin's wives on tape.
391
00:58:14,658 --> 00:58:17,160
Second wife
of Charlie Chaplin and
392
00:58:17,202 --> 00:58:21,415
1966 she
releases her tell-all memoir.
393
00:58:21,456 --> 00:58:24,001
It is a controversial
sensational book.
394
00:58:24,042 --> 00:58:26,294
And here is Lita Grey Chaplin.
395
00:58:33,260 --> 00:58:34,428
I'm curious, Lita,
396
00:58:34,469 --> 00:58:36,847
to find out why
you would write this book.
397
00:58:38,473 --> 00:58:40,225
I had a compulsion to write it.
398
00:58:40,267 --> 00:58:42,644
I felt that the story
just had to be told
399
00:58:42,686 --> 00:58:44,813
or rather I had
to tell the story.
400
00:58:44,855 --> 00:58:47,691
I had lived so many years
with the untrue story.
401
00:58:47,733 --> 00:58:50,694
You starred in one of his movies
402
00:58:50,736 --> 00:58:52,362
or you appeared in
one of his movies.
403
00:58:52,404 --> 00:58:54,364
"The Kid" when
I was 12 years old.
404
00:59:08,170 --> 00:59:09,731
Can I ask how old you
were when you married him
405
00:59:09,755 --> 00:59:10,547
or is that a secret?
406
00:59:10,589 --> 00:59:11,590
Sixteen.
407
00:59:12,632 --> 00:59:15,427
And were you then heading
for a motion picture career?
408
00:59:17,179 --> 00:59:19,598
Yes, I had begun in
"The Gold Rush," but
409
00:59:22,768 --> 00:59:26,271
couldn't finish the picture.
410
00:59:26,313 --> 00:59:28,332
Charlie takes two years to
make a picture, you know,
411
00:59:28,356 --> 00:59:31,401
and we became involved in
the meantime in such a way
412
00:59:31,443 --> 00:59:33,653
that I couldn't have
completed the picture.
413
00:59:35,906 --> 00:59:39,951
A teenage girl
pregnant with Chaplin's child.
414
00:59:41,870 --> 00:59:43,747
His first wife, Mildred Harris,
415
00:59:45,082 --> 00:59:46,625
went through something similar.
416
00:59:48,543 --> 00:59:52,297
She divorced Chaplin,
citing mental cruelty.
417
00:59:54,466 --> 00:59:56,968
And things don't start
any better for Lita.
418
00:59:59,262 --> 01:00:00,764
We were married in Mexico
419
01:00:00,806 --> 01:00:04,309
because Charlie didn't want
much said about the marriage.
420
01:00:04,351 --> 01:00:06,061
He was pretty bitter
in the beginning.
421
01:00:06,103 --> 01:00:09,481
On the way back on the
train, he was quite nasty.
422
01:00:09,523 --> 01:00:12,317
We were standing out on the
platform between the cars
423
01:00:12,359 --> 01:00:13,902
while the train was traveling.
424
01:00:14,402 --> 01:00:16,905
And he said, we could just
end this whole situation
425
01:00:16,947 --> 01:00:18,156
if you'd just jump.
426
01:00:26,206 --> 01:00:29,334
Two years
later, Lita sues for divorce
427
01:00:32,379 --> 01:00:34,673
and full custody of
their two children.
428
01:00:37,592 --> 01:00:39,678
It is, up to this point,
429
01:00:39,719 --> 01:00:42,806
the most expensive divorce
in Hollywood's history.
430
01:00:46,518 --> 01:00:49,020
The petition is so sensational
431
01:00:49,062 --> 01:00:51,773
that copies of it start
selling on the street.
432
01:00:58,280 --> 01:01:01,575
Lita describes him
as a serial adulterer
433
01:01:01,616 --> 01:01:04,202
who cheats openly
and compulsively.
434
01:01:05,954 --> 01:01:08,373
She claims he's
paranoid and jealous.
435
01:01:10,667 --> 01:01:12,419
That he flies into rages,
436
01:01:13,420 --> 01:01:17,382
bugs her room,
pulls a gun on her.
437
01:01:18,925 --> 01:01:20,552
She says he tried
to pressure her
438
01:01:20,594 --> 01:01:22,596
into getting a
backstreet abortion.
439
01:01:26,099 --> 01:01:30,645
Chaplin calls Lita a
blackmailer, a gold digger,
440
01:01:30,687 --> 01:01:31,730
a little whore.
441
01:01:36,234 --> 01:01:39,321
The papers label her
Chaplin's child bride,
442
01:01:39,362 --> 01:01:41,239
his school girl wife.
443
01:01:43,950 --> 01:01:46,453
And in a letter of support
for the genius Chaplin,
444
01:01:48,246 --> 01:01:50,415
30 European
intellectuals brand her
445
01:01:50,457 --> 01:01:54,085
an idiot woman, cow,
446
01:01:54,127 --> 01:01:56,713
slut, vermin, parasite.
447
01:02:05,388 --> 01:02:08,642
A part of the public
thought that I was wrong
448
01:02:08,683 --> 01:02:10,518
in my divorce case.
449
01:02:10,560 --> 01:02:15,607
That he was the poor little
mistreated, pathetic little man
450
01:02:15,815 --> 01:02:17,692
with so much pathos and all.
451
01:02:17,734 --> 01:02:20,403
That me and my family
were gold diggers
452
01:02:20,445 --> 01:02:22,739
and all this kind of talk.
453
01:02:22,781 --> 01:02:25,742
And that was, that
made me feel bad
454
01:02:25,784 --> 01:02:27,869
because I knew that a
portion of the public
455
01:02:27,911 --> 01:02:30,664
believed a lot because
they idolized Charlie.
456
01:02:35,502 --> 01:02:37,295
For many years afterwards,
457
01:02:37,337 --> 01:02:39,965
Lita struggles with
depression and alcohol.
458
01:02:46,346 --> 01:02:48,848
She tries to set the story
straight in interviews,
459
01:02:51,851 --> 01:02:53,645
but the topic
frequently strays back
460
01:02:53,687 --> 01:02:55,480
to the matter of
Chaplin's genius.
461
01:03:04,447 --> 01:03:05,657
Even after her death,
462
01:03:07,284 --> 01:03:10,120
biographies of Chaplin
continue to characterize her
463
01:03:10,161 --> 01:03:13,164
as a manipulative and
seductive teenage girl.
464
01:03:17,419 --> 01:03:19,671
Chaplin, in his autobiography,
465
01:03:20,588 --> 01:03:23,383
dedicates just three
sentences to Lita.
466
01:03:25,844 --> 01:03:27,554
He never mentions her by name.
467
01:04:02,881 --> 01:04:05,091
Lita's story is a shocking one.
468
01:04:07,552 --> 01:04:12,015
But for Chaplin it
changes nothing.
469
01:04:50,136 --> 01:04:52,347
Plenty has changed though.
470
01:04:55,809 --> 01:05:00,730
The optimism of the Roaring
Twenties has come crashing down
471
01:05:02,232 --> 01:05:04,609
and at every stop
on Chaplin's world tour,
472
01:05:06,361 --> 01:05:08,947
he sees the ravages of
the Great Depression.
473
01:05:11,366 --> 01:05:14,411
Communists and fascists are
fighting in the streets.
474
01:05:21,584 --> 01:05:25,296
Queues outside screenings
of "City Lights,"
475
01:05:25,338 --> 01:05:26,965
are mistaken for bread lines.
476
01:05:38,101 --> 01:05:41,146
In London with Mahatma Gandhi,
477
01:05:41,187 --> 01:05:44,774
he discusses
poverty, exploitation
478
01:05:44,816 --> 01:05:46,818
and the misuse of the machine.
479
01:05:49,988 --> 01:05:52,866
A film is taking shape
in Chaplin's head.
480
01:07:09,442 --> 01:07:12,820
It's number one
at the British Box Office,
481
01:07:12,862 --> 01:07:15,073
a smash in The States.
482
01:07:15,114 --> 01:07:16,908
Acclaimed in the Soviet Union.
483
01:07:19,536 --> 01:07:24,290
But in one country,
the film is banned outright.
484
01:07:35,051 --> 01:07:37,136
Munich, 15 years earlier.
485
01:07:43,017 --> 01:07:45,728
A little man marches
down the street,
486
01:07:46,271 --> 01:07:48,982
swishing at the air
with some sort of cane.
487
01:07:52,318 --> 01:07:54,654
His comical appearance
attracts attention,
488
01:07:55,280 --> 01:07:59,117
particularly his conspicuous
toothbrush mustache.
489
01:08:01,452 --> 01:08:02,620
He looks very familiar.
490
01:08:05,456 --> 01:08:08,376
"Who is this funny little
fellow?" someone asks.
491
01:08:12,088 --> 01:08:14,465
He's the leader of some
fringe political group.
492
01:08:20,305 --> 01:08:23,224
"Just think," remarks
Chaplin a few years later,
493
01:08:24,309 --> 01:08:26,769
"He's the madman,
I'm the comic."
494
01:08:27,979 --> 01:08:29,981
But it could have been
the other way around.
495
01:08:36,904 --> 01:08:40,825
Chaplin and Hitler are born
within four days of each other.
496
01:08:43,369 --> 01:08:46,414
They both grow up
adoring their mothers
497
01:08:46,456 --> 01:08:48,666
and resenting their
drunken fathers.
498
01:08:51,002 --> 01:08:52,503
Both have known poverty.
499
01:08:53,630 --> 01:08:55,214
One plays a tramp on screen
500
01:08:56,924 --> 01:08:59,719
while the other is homeless
on the streets of Vienna.
501
01:09:03,723 --> 01:09:07,518
Both are driven by a passionate
intensity and ambition,
502
01:09:08,311 --> 01:09:09,854
laced with self-pity.
503
01:09:14,817 --> 01:09:19,947
Sound threatens Chaplin's art,
but is the making of Hitler.
504
01:09:23,826 --> 01:09:26,204
They are
both mesmeric performers.
505
01:09:28,331 --> 01:09:29,957
They know how to command a crowd
506
01:09:29,999 --> 01:09:32,126
through exaggerated gestures
507
01:09:32,168 --> 01:09:34,212
and heightened
emotional appeals.
508
01:09:36,214 --> 01:09:40,218
Both elicit intense,
almost physical reactions
509
01:09:40,259 --> 01:09:41,386
from their audiences.
510
01:09:42,762 --> 01:09:44,097
Chaplin makes them laugh.
511
01:09:45,473 --> 01:09:48,059
Hitler drives them
into a frenzy.
512
01:09:53,481 --> 01:09:57,318
And then of course
there's the mustache.
513
01:10:01,072 --> 01:10:03,449
But when Chaplin and
Hitler look at each other,
514
01:10:04,784 --> 01:10:05,868
what do they see?
515
01:10:07,787 --> 01:10:09,414
The Nazis hate Chaplin.
516
01:10:10,289 --> 01:10:11,499
They label him a Jew
517
01:10:12,083 --> 01:10:15,086
and use him in their
antisemitic propaganda.
518
01:10:32,437 --> 01:10:35,940
Neither can escape
comparisons with the other.
519
01:10:37,608 --> 01:10:40,945
And so, as Hitler
celebrates his 50th birthday
520
01:10:40,987 --> 01:10:43,239
with a military
parade through Berlin,
521
01:10:45,366 --> 01:10:49,495
Chaplin is working on a
script for his latest film.
522
01:10:51,706 --> 01:10:55,835
He begins filming the week
Britain declares war on Germany.
523
01:10:58,796 --> 01:11:01,632
In it, Chaplin collapses
the distinctions
524
01:11:01,674 --> 01:11:03,009
between himself and Hitler
525
01:11:05,136 --> 01:11:08,139
as the dictator Adenoid Hynkel.
526
01:11:19,525 --> 01:11:21,527
But it's also a story
of doppelgangers.
527
01:11:23,196 --> 01:11:26,741
He simultaneously plays
the Jewish barber.
528
01:11:26,783 --> 01:11:29,243
Before we take you down,
you'll finish this. Here!
529
01:11:31,537 --> 01:11:32,663
Come on. Paint that.
530
01:11:33,664 --> 01:11:34,791
Why you!
531
01:11:36,042 --> 01:11:37,627
Hey, come here!
532
01:11:37,668 --> 01:11:40,087
Chaplin, who wasn't Jewish,
533
01:11:40,129 --> 01:11:44,175
has finally aligned the
Tramp with one identity.
534
01:11:47,386 --> 01:11:51,682
A persecuted minority
facing extermination.
535
01:12:49,907 --> 01:12:51,492
At the film's end,
536
01:12:52,451 --> 01:12:55,246
the Tramp is mistaken
for the dictator
537
01:12:59,834 --> 01:13:02,837
and forced to address the world.
538
01:13:07,550 --> 01:13:09,260
When the greatest
comedy character
539
01:13:09,302 --> 01:13:11,554
of all time finally speaks,
540
01:13:13,556 --> 01:13:14,932
it's not to tell a joke.
541
01:13:17,935 --> 01:13:21,564
I'm sorry, but I don't
want to be an emperor.
542
01:13:21,606 --> 01:13:22,899
That's not my business.
543
01:13:23,858 --> 01:13:26,360
I don't want to rule
or conquer anyone.
544
01:13:26,402 --> 01:13:28,279
I should like to help
everyone, if possible.
545
01:13:28,321 --> 01:13:31,782
Jew, Gentile, black men, white,
546
01:13:31,824 --> 01:13:33,367
we all want to help one another.
547
01:13:33,409 --> 01:13:35,369
Human beings are like that.
548
01:13:35,411 --> 01:13:36,763
We want to live
by each other's happiness,
549
01:13:36,787 --> 01:13:38,623
not by each other's misery.
550
01:13:38,664 --> 01:13:41,125
We don't want to hate
and despise one another.
551
01:13:41,167 --> 01:13:42,644
In this world
there's room for everyone
552
01:13:42,668 --> 01:13:46,422
and the good earth is rich
and can provide for everyone.
553
01:13:46,464 --> 01:13:49,550
The way of life can be
free and beautiful,
554
01:13:49,592 --> 01:13:51,636
but we have lost the way.
555
01:13:51,677 --> 01:13:54,305
Greed has poisoned men's souls,
556
01:13:54,347 --> 01:13:56,641
has barricaded the
world with hate,
557
01:13:56,682 --> 01:13:59,685
has goose-stepped us into
misery and bloodshed.
558
01:13:59,727 --> 01:14:03,105
We have developed speed,
but we have shut ourselves in.
559
01:14:03,147 --> 01:14:06,108
Machinery that gives
abundance has left us in want.
560
01:14:06,150 --> 01:14:07,860
Our knowledge has
made us cynical,
561
01:14:07,902 --> 01:14:10,196
our cleverness hard and unkind.
562
01:14:10,237 --> 01:14:12,657
We think too much
and feel too little.
563
01:14:13,950 --> 01:14:15,493
You, the people have the power
564
01:14:15,534 --> 01:14:17,495
to make this life
free and beautiful,
565
01:14:17,536 --> 01:14:19,956
to make this life
a wonderful adventure.
566
01:14:19,997 --> 01:14:23,209
Then in the name of democracy,
let us use that power.
567
01:14:23,250 --> 01:14:24,669
Let us all unite!
568
01:14:24,710 --> 01:14:28,381
Let us fight for a new
world, a decent world,
569
01:14:28,422 --> 01:14:30,049
that will give men
a chance to work,
570
01:14:30,091 --> 01:14:33,177
that will give you the future
and old age a security.
571
01:14:33,219 --> 01:14:36,263
By the promise of these things,
brutes have risen to power.
572
01:14:36,305 --> 01:14:39,016
But they lie. They do
not fulfill that promise.
573
01:14:39,058 --> 01:14:40,518
They never will!
574
01:14:40,559 --> 01:14:44,021
Dictators free themselves,
but they enslave the people.
575
01:14:44,063 --> 01:14:47,149
Now let us fight
to fulfill that promise.
576
01:14:47,191 --> 01:14:49,610
Let us fight to free the world,
577
01:14:49,652 --> 01:14:51,696
to do away with
national barriers,
578
01:14:51,737 --> 01:14:55,366
to do away with greed,
with hate and intolerance.
579
01:14:55,408 --> 01:14:57,702
Let us fight for
a world of reason,
580
01:14:57,743 --> 01:15:00,246
a world where science
and progress will lead
581
01:15:00,287 --> 01:15:02,331
to all men's happiness.
582
01:15:02,373 --> 01:15:06,919
Soldiers, in the name of
democracy, let us all unite!
583
01:15:21,225 --> 01:15:24,729
Chaplin knows
the Tramp can't survive this.
584
01:15:28,441 --> 01:15:30,234
By breaking his silence,
585
01:15:31,986 --> 01:15:34,363
he's putting his
creation on the alter.
586
01:15:39,660 --> 01:15:42,913
But after a quarter of a
century in the Tramp costume,
587
01:15:46,208 --> 01:15:47,585
can Chaplin be sure
588
01:15:49,420 --> 01:15:51,255
that he will re-emerge whole?
589
01:15:55,634 --> 01:15:57,636
Can there be one
590
01:15:59,055 --> 01:16:00,514
without the other?
591
01:16:21,577 --> 01:16:23,245
It's 1947.
592
01:16:26,123 --> 01:16:28,292
Charlie Chaplin is
holding a press conference
593
01:16:28,334 --> 01:16:30,086
at the Gotham Hotel in New York.
594
01:16:33,631 --> 01:16:35,966
He's about to release
his new motion picture.
595
01:16:37,802 --> 01:16:40,346
His first without the Tramp.
596
01:16:43,015 --> 01:16:48,020
But as he knows, no one's
here to talk about the film.
597
01:16:48,979 --> 01:16:50,439
Chaplin.
598
01:17:29,311 --> 01:17:32,398
So, how did we get here?
599
01:17:36,735 --> 01:17:39,738
"The Great Dictator" has
been an enormous success
600
01:17:41,073 --> 01:17:43,909
and its closing speech
has made such a splash
601
01:17:44,410 --> 01:17:46,871
that Chaplin is
invited to repeat it
602
01:17:48,122 --> 01:17:52,459
at the inauguration of
President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
603
01:17:52,501 --> 01:17:54,003
You, the people, have the power
604
01:17:54,044 --> 01:17:55,713
to make this life
free and beautiful,
605
01:17:55,754 --> 01:17:58,424
to make this life a
wonderful adventure
606
01:17:59,091 --> 01:18:03,137
that in the name of democracy,
let us use that power.
607
01:18:03,179 --> 01:18:04,597
Let us all unite!
608
01:18:04,638 --> 01:18:07,349
At a fundraiser for
the Russian war relief,
609
01:18:07,391 --> 01:18:10,019
he's invited to speak
for four minutes.
610
01:18:10,060 --> 01:18:11,520
We must have a unity.
611
01:18:11,562 --> 01:18:12,771
He speaks for 40.
612
01:18:12,813 --> 01:18:15,608
And only by
the strength of unity
613
01:18:15,649 --> 01:18:17,401
can we win this war.
614
01:18:17,443 --> 01:18:19,862
He gets carried
away, goes off script.
615
01:18:19,904 --> 01:18:22,489
I certainly
think if that's communism,
616
01:18:22,531 --> 01:18:24,092
there's a lot of people
in the United States
617
01:18:24,116 --> 01:18:25,159
that'll vote for it.
618
01:18:28,245 --> 01:18:31,207
Having waited
so long to break his silence,
619
01:18:32,625 --> 01:18:34,376
Chaplin can't stop talking.
620
01:18:35,419 --> 01:18:37,630
I just made a speech in Chicago
621
01:18:37,671 --> 01:18:41,133
and I happened to say that
while people are anticommunist,
622
01:18:41,175 --> 01:18:43,344
I am going to be communistic.
623
01:18:45,054 --> 01:18:46,513
We must have the full strength
624
01:18:46,555 --> 01:18:48,933
from the capitalist
to the communist,
625
01:18:48,974 --> 01:18:51,602
in order that we
shall achieve victory.
626
01:18:55,397 --> 01:18:59,318
And people
are starting to listen.
627
01:19:05,574 --> 01:19:07,952
Under the orders of its
notorious director,
628
01:19:07,993 --> 01:19:10,246
J. Edgar Hoover,
629
01:19:10,287 --> 01:19:14,083
the FBI is engaged in
wide ranging investigation
630
01:19:14,124 --> 01:19:16,126
into Chaplin's possible ties
631
01:19:17,294 --> 01:19:19,713
to the international
communist movement.
632
01:19:22,925 --> 01:19:25,344
The Red Scare is underway,
633
01:19:26,512 --> 01:19:28,389
from Capitol hill to Hollywood.
634
01:19:30,182 --> 01:19:33,394
Communism in
reality is akin to disease
635
01:19:33,435 --> 01:19:35,271
that's spread like an epidemic.
636
01:19:35,312 --> 01:19:36,897
And like an epidemic,
637
01:19:36,939 --> 01:19:40,484
a quarantine is necessary to
keep from infecting the state.
638
01:19:41,568 --> 01:19:43,862
Actors, writers and filmmakers
639
01:19:43,904 --> 01:19:45,197
are dragged
in front of the House
640
01:19:45,239 --> 01:19:47,574
un-American
Activities Committee.
641
01:19:47,616 --> 01:19:49,094
Are you or
have you ever been a member
642
01:19:49,118 --> 01:19:50,619
of the communist party?
643
01:19:50,661 --> 01:19:53,080
What is your
opinion regarding communism?
644
01:19:53,122 --> 01:19:56,292
I feel that they really
ought to be smoked out.
645
01:19:56,333 --> 01:19:57,293
If I had my way about it,
646
01:19:57,334 --> 01:19:59,253
they'd all be sent
back to Russia
647
01:19:59,295 --> 01:20:01,547
or some other unpleasant place.
648
01:20:04,174 --> 01:20:07,511
10 Are imprisoned
for refusing to testify.
649
01:20:11,557 --> 01:20:13,267
Hundreds are blacklisted.
650
01:20:15,227 --> 01:20:19,565
Taking down a big star would
be a major coup for Hoover
651
01:20:21,358 --> 01:20:25,529
and they don't come much
bigger than Charlie Chaplin.
652
01:20:25,571 --> 01:20:27,948
Are you a
member of the communist party?
653
01:21:00,814 --> 01:21:03,776
But this response
doesn't satisfy Hoover.
654
01:21:05,736 --> 01:21:07,654
Through the FBI's lens,
655
01:21:07,696 --> 01:21:10,074
Chaplin becomes not
only a communist,
656
01:21:11,408 --> 01:21:13,035
but a foreign subversive,
657
01:21:14,244 --> 01:21:17,206
a homosexual, a Jew.
658
01:21:20,376 --> 01:21:22,878
It tells us a lot
more about the FBI
659
01:21:22,920 --> 01:21:24,838
than it does about Chaplin.
660
01:21:28,884 --> 01:21:30,260
They're looking for dirt.
661
01:21:32,554 --> 01:21:36,975
And in this department,
they have a powerful ally.
662
01:21:40,437 --> 01:21:41,772
Hello everybody.
663
01:21:41,814 --> 01:21:43,708
This is Hedda Hopper reporting
to you from Hollywood.
664
01:21:43,732 --> 01:21:46,235
That fabulous place where
everyone wants to live,
665
01:21:46,276 --> 01:21:47,903
but seldom does.
666
01:21:47,945 --> 01:21:50,489
"Hedda Hopper's
Hollywood Gossip Column"
667
01:21:50,531 --> 01:21:53,617
is read by 32 million Americans.
668
01:21:53,659 --> 01:21:55,661
Work in Culver City and play.
669
01:21:55,702 --> 01:21:56,745
She has the power
670
01:21:56,787 --> 01:21:58,247
to make or break careers.
671
01:21:58,288 --> 01:22:00,499
Palm Springs, the other
day I decided to get away,
672
01:22:00,541 --> 01:22:02,000
and she hates communists.
673
01:22:02,042 --> 01:22:04,253
Saw a little bit of sunshine.
674
01:22:04,294 --> 01:22:06,088
She tells Hoover,
675
01:22:06,130 --> 01:22:09,341
I'd like to run every one of
those rats out of the country
676
01:22:11,093 --> 01:22:14,304
and start with Charlie Chaplin.
677
01:22:18,767 --> 01:22:22,479
The file shows that Hopper
and Hoover's relationship
678
01:22:22,521 --> 01:22:24,356
iS more or less circular.
679
01:22:26,525 --> 01:22:29,361
Hopper fills her columns
with gossip about Chaplin
680
01:22:30,654 --> 01:22:33,073
that's been fed
to her by the FBI.
681
01:22:33,115 --> 01:22:34,616
Charlie Chaplin dividing
682
01:22:34,658 --> 01:22:36,136
his dancing attention night
before last at the Persian Room.
683
01:22:36,160 --> 01:22:38,495
The FBI
then quotes those columns
684
01:22:39,329 --> 01:22:40,831
and its file against Chaplin.
685
01:22:40,873 --> 01:22:42,166
In the minds of
686
01:22:42,207 --> 01:22:45,169
Charlie Chaplin is called
the debutante's delight.
687
01:22:45,210 --> 01:22:47,504
The machine feeds itself.
688
01:22:47,546 --> 01:22:50,591
Regarding
communists in Hollywood.
689
01:22:50,632 --> 01:22:52,509
I found much.
690
01:22:52,551 --> 01:22:56,180
The evidence,
however, remains circumstantial.
691
01:22:59,391 --> 01:23:00,476
Until one day.
692
01:23:00,517 --> 01:23:01,995
You know, there's one
man in particular.
693
01:23:02,019 --> 01:23:07,107
Hopper finds a
young woman called Joan Barry.
694
01:23:13,822 --> 01:23:17,409
In 1941, Joan
arrived in Hollywood
695
01:23:17,451 --> 01:23:19,703
as an aspiring young actress.
696
01:23:25,375 --> 01:23:27,544
Charlie Chaplin
took an interest in her.
697
01:23:29,671 --> 01:23:31,590
He said he could
make her a star.
698
01:23:36,553 --> 01:23:40,724
Now she's pregnant
and she needs help.
699
01:23:45,604 --> 01:23:49,399
Hopper and Hoover
sense an opportunity.
700
01:23:54,029 --> 01:23:57,324
Chaplin is taken to court to
prove that he's the father.
701
01:23:59,952 --> 01:24:03,038
And Hopper ensures the
whole case plays out,
702
01:24:03,080 --> 01:24:07,292
week-by-week in
the tabloid press.
703
01:24:10,963 --> 01:24:13,423
The prosecutor
tears into Chaplin.
704
01:24:15,592 --> 01:24:17,803
He reveals that
Chaplin forced Barry
705
01:24:17,844 --> 01:24:19,930
to have two backstreet abortions
706
01:24:21,348 --> 01:24:24,768
and accuses him of decades
of predatory behavior.
707
01:24:29,439 --> 01:24:31,650
Three grueling trials later,
708
01:24:34,069 --> 01:24:36,780
a blood test suggests he
may not be the father.
709
01:24:39,950 --> 01:24:40,993
But it's too late.
710
01:24:43,161 --> 01:24:45,956
The tide has finally turned.
711
01:24:50,502 --> 01:24:54,339
It's a great victory for the
right wing press and the FBI.
712
01:25:03,348 --> 01:25:05,100
But what about Joan Barry?
713
01:25:08,979 --> 01:25:10,314
Where does this leave her?
714
01:25:15,944 --> 01:25:17,154
A few years later,
715
01:25:18,322 --> 01:25:20,616
she is committed to a
psychiatric hospital.
716
01:25:24,745 --> 01:25:26,538
There's no further trace of her.
717
01:25:31,126 --> 01:25:36,548
And now it's open season
on Charlie Chaplin.
718
01:27:18,233 --> 01:27:21,862
Now that it's ended.
719
01:27:21,903 --> 01:27:26,408
The romance is over.
720
01:27:26,450 --> 01:27:29,745
The passion gone.
721
01:27:29,786 --> 01:27:34,791
Like the wind and the rain.
722
01:27:35,375 --> 01:27:38,211
Gone are the joys.
723
01:27:38,253 --> 01:27:42,549
Of our madness.
724
01:27:42,591 --> 01:27:45,802
When I dream of you.
725
01:27:46,386 --> 01:27:49,139
In the midst
of all these scandals,
726
01:27:50,849 --> 01:27:51,933
he's married again.
727
01:27:55,520 --> 01:27:56,980
Oona O'Neill.
728
01:28:05,614 --> 01:28:08,325
My mother was
so young when she met him.
729
01:28:11,077 --> 01:28:16,082
She was 17 and he
was 52, I think.
730
01:28:19,377 --> 01:28:20,629
They fell in love
731
01:28:20,670 --> 01:28:23,340
and then as soon as she
turned 18, they married.
732
01:28:26,468 --> 01:28:29,304
Everyone thought
that she was just a bimbo
733
01:28:29,346 --> 01:28:31,181
and that she'd be gone soon.
734
01:28:41,233 --> 01:28:42,818
They were mad about each other.
735
01:28:47,113 --> 01:28:50,575
The only opinion he
listened to was my mother's.
736
01:28:50,617 --> 01:28:55,330
Just couldn't do nothing
without her approval.
737
01:29:01,086 --> 01:29:02,337
She was the sunshine.
738
01:29:04,422 --> 01:29:06,258
She gave warmth.
739
01:29:25,485 --> 01:29:28,405
But his next film, "Limelight,"
740
01:29:29,614 --> 01:29:32,033
betrays an underlying anxiety.
741
01:29:48,842 --> 01:29:52,470
In it, he's an aging comedian.
742
01:29:55,599 --> 01:29:58,768
Once renowned for playing
a beloved Tramp character
743
01:30:01,062 --> 01:30:02,063
whose public
744
01:30:05,609 --> 01:30:07,110
has now abandoned him.
745
01:30:34,679 --> 01:30:38,308
On September 17th, 1952,
746
01:30:39,434 --> 01:30:42,103
the Chaplin family
depart the United States
747
01:30:42,145 --> 01:30:44,147
to attend the European premiere.
748
01:30:52,197 --> 01:30:54,950
Two days into the voyage.
749
01:30:57,160 --> 01:30:58,512
The story which
makes the most sensational news
750
01:30:58,536 --> 01:31:00,705
is the departure of
Charlie Chaplin for London.
751
01:31:00,747 --> 01:31:02,832
Immigration officials
are prompt to suggest
752
01:31:02,874 --> 01:31:05,335
that the great comic may have
difficulty getting back here
753
01:31:05,377 --> 01:31:06,586
if he wants to come.
754
01:31:06,628 --> 01:31:07,772
The United
States Attorney General,
755
01:31:07,796 --> 01:31:09,506
James P. McGranery,
756
01:31:09,547 --> 01:31:10,382
heard that Chaplin had been...
757
01:31:10,423 --> 01:31:12,258
Charged with making statements
758
01:31:12,300 --> 01:31:16,805
that would indicate a
leering, sneering attitude
759
01:31:18,556 --> 01:31:21,726
toward a country whose
gracious hospitality
760
01:31:22,894 --> 01:31:24,104
has enriched him.
761
01:31:24,145 --> 01:31:25,480
And then at
the Justice Department
762
01:31:25,522 --> 01:31:28,024
decided that Chaplin could
not re-enter the country,
763
01:31:28,066 --> 01:31:31,945
unless he could prove
quote "His moral worth."
764
01:31:50,255 --> 01:31:52,716
This has
been years in the making.
765
01:31:56,094 --> 01:31:57,804
His enemies have
tried everything.
766
01:32:01,725 --> 01:32:02,934
But in the end,
767
01:32:05,603 --> 01:32:07,188
they just wait until he leaves.
768
01:32:24,456 --> 01:32:26,499
Chaplin sells his
Hollywood studio
769
01:32:27,709 --> 01:32:29,753
and retreats to Switzerland.
770
01:32:40,805 --> 01:32:43,433
He moves the family
into a grand estate
771
01:32:45,643 --> 01:32:47,562
ringed by the Alps.
772
01:33:00,825 --> 01:33:03,661
The sentence
I remember most, him saying.
773
01:33:09,000 --> 01:33:11,628
"I'm not bitter about America."
774
01:33:13,004 --> 01:33:15,465
I'm not bitter about America.
775
01:33:17,050 --> 01:33:21,137
- Bitter about America?
- "I'm not bitter about America."
776
01:33:22,639 --> 01:33:27,310
He said it so many times
one begins to wonder.
777
01:33:37,362 --> 01:33:42,325
And Chaplin is
forced to adapt to his new role
778
01:33:44,285 --> 01:33:45,328
as a father.
779
01:33:52,836 --> 01:33:55,004
My father
wasn't Charlie Chaplin.
780
01:33:59,634 --> 01:34:01,261
I knew they were
the same person,
781
01:34:02,470 --> 01:34:04,097
but they looked nothing alike.
782
01:34:07,767 --> 01:34:09,769
Except when he had an audience,
783
01:34:09,811 --> 01:34:11,688
then he would become
Charlie Chaplin,
784
01:34:13,565 --> 01:34:15,984
that other man, the man
that was on the screen.
785
01:34:21,281 --> 01:34:22,866
This is the
Charlie Chaplin we find
786
01:34:22,907 --> 01:34:24,534
in the family's home movies.
787
01:34:31,583 --> 01:34:33,334
A cheerful clown who appears
788
01:34:33,376 --> 01:34:35,253
the moment the camera
starts rolling.
789
01:34:49,851 --> 01:34:51,603
My one wish growing up
790
01:34:53,021 --> 01:34:57,984
was to have one conversation
alone with my father.
791
01:35:03,573 --> 01:35:04,908
Just the two of us.
792
01:35:09,829 --> 01:35:13,374
He was inaccessible
in SO many ways.
793
01:35:16,044 --> 01:35:17,587
Your father's working.
794
01:35:18,755 --> 01:35:19,756
Don't disturb him.
795
01:35:22,842 --> 01:35:24,761
He'll lose his inspiration.
796
01:35:28,681 --> 01:35:33,478
Our world revolved around
my father's well being.
797
01:35:41,069 --> 01:35:45,281
I was kind of
frightened of my father.
798
01:35:51,829 --> 01:35:53,957
He was so powerful
in a certain way.
799
01:35:58,586 --> 01:36:01,798
You couldn't argue with him
because he couldn't be wrong.
800
01:36:06,511 --> 01:36:09,389
Everyone who gets
too close to him,
801
01:36:09,430 --> 01:36:10,974
he'll end up suffocating.
802
01:36:14,352 --> 01:36:15,478
He couldn't help it.
803
01:36:19,774 --> 01:36:21,776
That's why I left home
at an early age.
804
01:36:23,569 --> 01:36:26,698
And I think my sisters did too,
you know.
805
01:36:43,881 --> 01:36:46,342
Chaplin
makes two films in exile.
806
01:36:51,389 --> 01:36:54,017
But neither is the comeback
he hopes for.
807
01:37:02,692 --> 01:37:04,110
He said to me,
808
01:37:06,946 --> 01:37:08,364
"I was very famous."
809
01:37:09,907 --> 01:37:11,451
"I used to be very famous."
810
01:37:15,747 --> 01:37:16,956
It did matter to him.
811
01:37:19,125 --> 01:37:20,626
Of course it mattered to him.
812
01:37:23,880 --> 01:37:25,340
He needed an audience.
813
01:37:26,716 --> 01:37:27,717
He was a comedian.
814
01:37:30,345 --> 01:37:31,929
You need an audience.
815
01:37:36,768 --> 01:37:38,227
Correction.
816
01:37:38,269 --> 01:37:40,372
It strikes me that happiness
is becoming more difficult.
817
01:37:40,396 --> 01:37:42,273
New paragraph.
818
01:37:42,315 --> 01:37:43,691
To write a book.
819
01:37:43,733 --> 01:37:45,902
A great controversy was
going on in the press, comma...
820
01:37:45,943 --> 01:37:49,489
- In this day and age we...
- comma.
821
01:37:49,530 --> 01:37:51,783
Paragraph... of unconsciousness.
822
01:38:07,882 --> 01:38:10,468
In the pages of his memoir,
823
01:38:10,510 --> 01:38:12,470
Chaplin revisits, once more,
824
01:38:12,512 --> 01:38:14,555
the streets he
wandered as a boy.
825
01:38:23,231 --> 01:38:25,566
The streets he
haunts as an old man.
826
01:38:38,496 --> 01:38:40,957
The streets he returned to
time and again,
827
01:38:43,000 --> 01:38:44,001
as the Tramp.
828
01:38:54,554 --> 01:38:56,013
His old Lambeth neighborhood,
829
01:38:59,225 --> 01:39:01,477
he rebuilt it in his
Hollywood studio.
830
01:39:15,032 --> 01:39:16,617
The gates of Killing ton Park,
831
01:39:18,911 --> 01:39:21,664
here Chaplin met for a
date with his first love.
832
01:39:24,876 --> 01:39:27,295
It's where the Tramp
meets the flower girl.
833
01:39:32,925 --> 01:39:35,678
And the attic
of No. 3 Pownall Terrace.
834
01:39:39,557 --> 01:39:42,685
Where young Charlie watched
his mother's health ebb away.
835
01:39:50,985 --> 01:39:53,738
It's the attic
room in "The Kid."
836
01:40:05,333 --> 01:40:08,044
And if Chaplin isn't
finished with the past,
837
01:40:10,379 --> 01:40:13,841
the past certainly
isn't finished with him.
838
01:40:24,936 --> 01:40:29,899
When Hollywood stages a grand
reconciliation at the Oscars,
839
01:40:31,692 --> 01:40:34,737
it seems like a bid to
turn back the clock.
840
01:40:48,584 --> 01:40:50,962
When he's knighted in 1975,
841
01:40:52,797 --> 01:40:56,092
people are still searching for
traces of the little fellow.
842
01:40:57,510 --> 01:40:58,886
Sir Charles left the palace,
843
01:40:58,928 --> 01:41:00,596
not with his famous cane,
844
01:41:00,638 --> 01:41:02,598
but now leaning on
a thick walking stick.
845
01:41:02,640 --> 01:41:05,518
He's 86 next month and
he sat in a wheelchair
846
01:41:05,560 --> 01:41:06,852
as the queen dubbed him.
847
01:41:06,894 --> 01:41:08,437
Is there anyone left
848
01:41:09,480 --> 01:41:14,151
who can look at one
without seeing the other?
849
01:42:39,528 --> 01:42:42,281
When you ask
for the real Charlie Chaplin,
850
01:42:45,034 --> 01:42:46,410
a thousand voices reply.
851
01:42:48,204 --> 01:42:49,246
Take care.
852
01:42:57,672 --> 01:43:00,049
Some are louder than others.
853
01:43:14,230 --> 01:43:15,690
Some are hidden.
854
01:43:20,277 --> 01:43:23,030
Some struggle to be heard.
855
01:43:27,326 --> 01:43:28,327
And others
856
01:43:31,247 --> 01:43:32,415
remain silent.
857
01:43:44,969 --> 01:43:48,931
I think if anyone
could pin my father down,
858
01:43:48,973 --> 01:43:51,892
could understand him
859
01:43:51,934 --> 01:43:53,602
it was my mother.
860
01:43:57,815 --> 01:43:59,608
My mother's voice doesn't exist.
861
01:44:02,695 --> 01:44:03,946
There's nothing with her.
862
01:44:10,077 --> 01:44:12,329
No recorded interviews.
863
01:44:16,250 --> 01:44:18,586
Certainly she kept
journals. She kept diaries.
864
01:44:24,091 --> 01:44:26,802
Writing was, I think,
her way of escaping.
865
01:44:29,472 --> 01:44:32,808
Writing furiously,
writing continuously.
866
01:44:42,860 --> 01:44:44,069
In her last years,
867
01:44:46,363 --> 01:44:48,365
she spent a lot of
time destroying,
868
01:44:51,202 --> 01:44:52,828
destroying what she had written.
869
01:44:58,125 --> 01:44:59,585
She was probably very lonely.
870
01:45:05,090 --> 01:45:06,610
I could imagine
it would be quite lonely
871
01:45:06,634 --> 01:45:08,344
being the wife of
Charlie Chaplin.
872
01:45:20,105 --> 01:45:21,857
That big wish that I had,
873
01:45:23,359 --> 01:45:26,862
to have conversation
alone with my father.
874
01:45:30,449 --> 01:45:31,826
I forgot about it.
875
01:45:33,077 --> 01:45:35,162
I thought, " you
know, this is ridiculous."
876
01:45:35,204 --> 01:45:36,914
It's just never gonna happen.”
877
01:45:41,043 --> 01:45:46,048
And when I dropped it,
that's when it happened.
878
01:45:49,260 --> 01:45:51,554
Conversation alone with my dad.
879
01:46:02,022 --> 01:46:04,400
I had grown up with the icon.
880
01:46:06,986 --> 01:46:10,239
But the man, I had no
idea who the man was.
881
01:46:13,742 --> 01:46:17,913
He spoke about having
huge amounts of doubt.
882
01:46:22,209 --> 01:46:26,046
He said that he had had
doubts all his life.
883
01:46:33,470 --> 01:46:37,725
He accomplished
his life's dream,
884
01:46:39,727 --> 01:46:43,147
but I don't think he ever
really got over his doubts.
885
01:46:52,615 --> 01:46:56,243
Does one ever really get
over where you come from?
886
01:47:00,956 --> 01:47:02,625
I don't think it
ever leaves you.
887
01:48:21,578 --> 01:48:23,497
If you only shut your trap
888
01:48:23,539 --> 01:48:25,124
I will tell you about a chap.
889
01:48:25,165 --> 01:48:28,377
That was broken up
against it and threadbare.
890
01:48:28,419 --> 01:48:30,295
He was not the kind that shirked.
891
01:48:30,337 --> 01:48:32,089
He was looking hard for work.
892
01:48:32,131 --> 01:48:36,051
But he heard the same
old story everywhere.
893
01:48:36,093 --> 01:48:38,095
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp,
keep on a-trampin'
894
01:48:38,137 --> 01:48:39,471
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp.
895
01:48:39,513 --> 01:48:43,100
"Nothin" doing here for you.
896
01:48:43,142 --> 01:48:44,351
If I catch you round again.
897
01:48:44,393 --> 01:48:46,311
You will wear the ball and chain.
898
01:48:46,353 --> 01:48:47,438
Keep on tramping.
899
01:48:47,479 --> 01:48:49,815
That's the best thing you can do.
900
01:48:49,857 --> 01:48:51,400
He walked up and down the street.
901
01:48:51,442 --> 01:48:53,152
Til the shoes fell off his feet.
902
01:48:53,193 --> 01:48:56,822
In the house he spied
a lady cooking stew.
903
01:48:56,864 --> 01:48:58,657
And he said, how do you do.
904
01:48:58,699 --> 01:49:00,242
May I chop some wood for you.
905
01:49:00,284 --> 01:49:04,079
What the lady told him
made him feel so blue.
906
01:49:04,121 --> 01:49:06,749
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp,
keep on a-trampin'
907
01:49:06,790 --> 01:49:07,666
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp.
908
01:49:07,708 --> 01:49:10,794
"Nothin" doing here for you.
909
01:49:10,836 --> 01:49:12,421
If I catch you round again.
910
01:49:12,463 --> 01:49:14,214
You will wear the ball and chain.
911
01:49:14,256 --> 01:49:15,340
Keep on trampin'
912
01:49:15,382 --> 01:49:17,760
That's the best thing you can do.
913
01:49:17,801 --> 01:49:19,595
Cross the street
the sign he read.
914
01:49:19,636 --> 01:49:21,221
Work for Jesus, so it said.
915
01:49:21,263 --> 01:49:23,098
And he said, here is my chance
916
01:49:23,140 --> 01:49:24,725
I'll surely try.
917
01:49:24,767 --> 01:49:26,393
And he knee led upon the floor.
918
01:49:26,435 --> 01:49:28,479
Til his knees got rather sore.
919
01:49:28,520 --> 01:49:32,191
But at eating time he
heard the preacher cry.
920
01:49:32,232 --> 01:49:33,776
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp,
keep on a-trampin'
921
01:49:33,817 --> 01:49:35,569
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp.
922
01:49:35,611 --> 01:49:38,781
"Nothin" doing here for you.
923
01:49:38,822 --> 01:49:40,407
If I catch you round again.
924
01:49:40,449 --> 01:49:42,242
You will wear the ball and chain.
925
01:49:42,284 --> 01:49:43,368
Keep on trampin'
926
01:49:43,410 --> 01:49:45,704
That's the best thing you can do.
927
01:49:45,746 --> 01:49:47,372
Down the street he met a cop.
928
01:49:47,414 --> 01:49:49,124
And the copper made him stop.
929
01:49:49,166 --> 01:49:52,711
And he asked him, when
did you blow into town.
930
01:49:52,753 --> 01:49:54,213
Come with me up to the judge
931
01:49:54,254 --> 01:49:55,923
the judge, he said, fudge.
932
01:49:55,964 --> 01:49:59,968
Bums that have no money
needn't come around.
933
01:50:00,010 --> 01:50:01,553
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp,
keep on a-trampin'
934
01:50:01,595 --> 01:50:03,305
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp.
935
01:50:03,347 --> 01:50:06,391
"Nothin" doing here for you.
936
01:50:06,433 --> 01:50:08,102
If I catch you round again.
937
01:50:08,143 --> 01:50:09,728
You will wear the ball and chain.
938
01:50:09,770 --> 01:50:10,854
Keep on trampin'
939
01:50:10,896 --> 01:50:13,440
That's the best thing you can do.
940
01:50:13,482 --> 01:50:15,067
Finally came the happy day.
941
01:50:15,109 --> 01:50:17,277
When his life did pass away.
942
01:50:17,319 --> 01:50:20,322
He was sure he'd go
to heaven when he died.
943
01:50:20,364 --> 01:50:22,449
When did he reached
the pearly gates
944
01:50:22,491 --> 01:50:23,992
Saint Peter, mean old saint.
945
01:50:24,034 --> 01:50:27,830
Slammed the gate right in
his face and loudly cried.
946
01:50:27,871 --> 01:50:30,499
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp,
keep on a-trampin'
947
01:50:30,541 --> 01:50:31,500
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp.
948
01:50:31,542 --> 01:50:34,503
"Nothin" doing here for you.
949
01:50:34,545 --> 01:50:36,296
If I catch you round again.
950
01:50:36,338 --> 01:50:38,006
You will wear the ball and chain.
951
01:50:38,048 --> 01:50:39,133
Keep on trampin'
952
01:50:39,174 --> 01:50:42,177
That's the best thing you can do.
953
01:50:42,219 --> 01:50:43,303
Keep on trampin'
954
01:50:43,345 --> 01:50:47,349
That's the best
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