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1. Chaplins England -- 2. To shoulder arms? : Charlie and the First World War -- 3. Moscow or Manchester? : Chaplins views on capitalism before the Depression took hold -- 4. Sex, morality and a tramp in 1920s America -- 5. Between Churchill and Gandhi : a comedian sees the world -- 6. Modern times and the Great Depression -- 7. The tramp and the dictators -- 8. Comrades and controversy -- 9. A citizen of the world.

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First published 2017

by Routledge

2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN

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2017 Richard Carr

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British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Carr, Richard, 1985 author.

Title: Charlie Chaplin : a political biography from Victorian Britain

to modern America.

Description: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon : New York, NY :

Routledge, 2017. | Series: Routledge historical biographies |

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2016048529 | ISBN 9781138923256 (hardback :

alk. paper) | ISBN 9781138923263 (pbk. : alk. paper) |

ISBN 9781315201672 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Chaplin, Charlie, 18891977. | Chaplin, Charlie,

18891977Political and social views. | Motion picture actors

and actressesUnited StatesBiography.

Classification: LCC PN2287.C5 C35 2017 | DDC 791.43092/

33092 [B]dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016048529

ISBN: 978-1-138-92325-6 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-1-138-92326-3 (pbk)

ISBN: 978-1-315-20167-2 (ebk)

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Date PersonalFilmic events Political activities Global context 1889 - photo 1
DatePersonal/Filmic eventsPolitical activitiesGlobal context

1889C[harlie] C[haplin] born in London, UK
1894First appearance on stage by CC
1896, 1898CC enters the workhouse for a combined total of thirty-two days
1898CC joins the Eight Lancashire LadsCC travels around the UK, seeing poverty throughout the land
18991902CC finds Boer War patriotism distastefulProtracted Boer War campaign eventually won by Britain
1901CCs father dies, aged thirty-seven
1903After several trips in/out of infirmaries, asylums and workhouses, Hannah Chaplin committed as a lunatic
19036CC plays Billy in Sherlock Holmes for H.A. Saintsbury
1906Election of interventionist Liberal government in the UK
1908CC joins the Fred Karno Company (until 1913); meets/falls in love with Hetty Kelly
1911, 1912, 1913In the US with Karno Company tours
1913Signs with Keystone Film Company ($150 a week)
1914Film career takes off Kid Auto Races at Venice features first appearance of Tramp character; signs contract to join Essanay ($1,250 per week)Britain enters the First World War
1915Tramp character matures in films such as The Bank; CC meets Mildred Harris for the first timeCC employs Rob Wagner, later to become something of a political mentor
1916Signs with Mutual Film Corp. ($10,000 per week)The Battle of the Somme
1917CC signs Million Dollar a Year contract with First NationalThe Immigrant seems to criticise the notion of America as the land of the free; CC faces charges of shirking military service by right-wing British pressRussian revolution; the US enters the First World War
1918Marries Mildred Harris; their son (Norman Spencer) dies after three days (1919)CC takes active part in Liberty Bond drives for British and American governments; The Bond and Shoulder Arms released backing the war effort; CC first meets Upton SinclairAllied victory in the First World War
1919United Artists launched by CC, Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford and othersCC hears Max Eastman speak on the subject of Hands Off Russia
1920CC employs Lita Grey for the first timeCC extols the virtues of communism over a beer with Buster KeatonPalmer Raids ( 191920) in the US suggest growing climate of anti-communism; Republicans win the White House (to hold until 1933)
1921Releases The Kid, which contains numerous allusions to his own impoverished childhoodCC praises Henry Ford; returns to Europe to promote The Kid where he makes numerous political statements; reads C.H. Douglass work on Social CreditArbuckle case leads to accusations of Hollywood debauchery
1922MPPDA formed to selfregulate the movie industry CC against; start of FBI surveillance against CCBenito Mussolini becomes Italian Prime Minister
1924To circumvent Californian law, CC marries Lita Grey in Mexico (two sons born, 1925/6); works on The Gold Rush (1925)
1927CCs divorce from Lita Grey becomes headline news and, later, a political weapon; makes The Circus (1928)IRS seeks c.$1.35 million of unpaid income tax from CC; his wealth then estimated at $16 million
1929Winston Churchill visits CC on the set of City Lights (1931)Wall Street Crash
1930Ivor Montagu brings Soviet director Sergei Eisenstein to Hollywood to meet CCOswald Mosley resigns from British Labour government and begins his journey to fascism
19312CCs world tour to promote City Lights; meets Gandhi, Mosley, MacDonald, German Reichstag deputies, Einstein and moreExtensive political chronology in Chapter 5; includes praise for Mussolinis Italy
1933Plans for Modern Times (1936) begin to take shape; Alistair Cooke brought in to help with the script (removed from this role, 1934)CC gives radio address in support of FDRHitler becomes Chancellor of Germany; Roosevelt inaugurated as US President
1934Social Credit movement attempt to gain CCs explicit public support; CC described as a nerve killing fidgeting Jew in Nazi propagandaUpton Sinclair runs his End Poverty in California campaign, endorsed by CC
1935Soviets claim that Modern Times will depict the struggle against capitalism; English leftist John Strachey drafts a script for an unused Napoleon fi lm
1936Modern Times released; CC marries Paulette GoddardHitler invades the demilitarised Rhineland
1938CC praises Mussolinis Italy and Hitlers Germany before, later in the year, beginning work on The Great Dictator (1940)Munich Agreement between UK, France, Italy and Germany averts war temporarily; Martin Dies assumes control of the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC)
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