Chaplin Charlie - Charlie Chaplin : intimate close-ups

edited by

ANTHONY SLIDE

1. James Whale, by James Curtis. 1982

2. Cinema Stylists, by John Belton. 1983

3. Harry Langdon, by William Schelly. 1982

4. William A. Wellman, by Frank Thompson. 1983

5. Stanley Donen, by Joseph Casper. 1983

6. Brian DePalma, by Michael Bliss. 1983

7. J. Stuart Blackton, by Marian Blackton Trimble. 1985

8. Martin Scorsese and Michael Cimino, by Michael Bliss. 1985

9. Franklin J. Schaffner, by Erwin Kim. 1985

10. D. W. Griffith at Biograph, by Cooper C. Graham et al. 1985

11. Some Day Well Laugh: An Autobiography, by Esther Ralston. 1985

12. The Memoirs of Alice Guy Blach, trans. by Roberta and Simone Blach. 1986

13. Leni Riefenstahl and Olympia, by Cooper C. Graham. 1986

14. Robert Florey, by Brian Taves. 1987

15. Henry Kings America, by Walter Coppedge. 1986

16. Aldous Huxley and Film, by Virginia M. Clark. 1987

17. Five American Cinematographers, by Scott Eyman. 1987

18. Cinematographers on the Art and Craft of Cinematography, by Anna Kate Sterling. 1987

19. Stars of the Silents, by Edward Wagenknecht. 1987

20. Twentieth Century-Fox, by Aubrey Solomon. 1988

21. Highlights and Shadows: The Memoirs of a Hollywood Cameraman, by Charles G. Clarke. 1989

22. I Went That-a-Way: The Memoirs of a Western Film Director, by Harry L. Fraser; edited by Wheeler Winston Dixon and Audrey Brown Fraser. 1990

23. Order in the Universe: The Films of John Carpenter, by Robert C. Cumbow. 1990

24. The Films of Freddie Francis, by Wheeler Winston Dixon. 1991

25. Hollywood Be Thy Name, by William Bakewell. 1991

26. The Charm of Evil: The Life and Films of Terence Fisher, by Wheeler Winston Dixon. 1991

27. Lionheart in Hollywood: The Autobiography of Henry Wilcoxon, with Katherine Orrison. 1991

28. William Desmond Taylor: A Dossier, by Bruce Long. 1991

29. The Films of Leni Riefenstahl, 2nd ed., by David B. Hinton. 1991

30. Hollywood Holyland: The Filming and Scoring of The Greatest Story Ever Told, by Ken Darby. 1992

31. The Films of Reginald LeBorg: Interviews, Essays, and Filmography, by Wheeler Winston Dixon. 1992

32. Memoirs of a Professional Cad, by George Sanders, with Tony Thomas. 1992

33. The Holocaust in French Film, by Andr Pierre Colombat. 1993

34. Robert Goldstein and The Spirit of 76, edited and compiled by Anthony Slide, 1993

35. Those Were the Days, My Friend: My Life in Hollywood with David O. Selznick and Others, by Paul Macnamara. 1993

36. The Creative Producer, by David Lewis; edited by James Curtis. 1993

37. Reinventing Reality: The Art and Life of Rouben Mamoulian, by Mark Spergel. 1993

38. Malcolm St. Clair: His Films, 19151948, by Ruth Anne Dwyer. 1995

39. Beyond Hollywoods Grasp: American Filmmakers Abroad, 19141945, by Harry Waldman. 1994

40. A Steady Digression to a Fixed Point, by Rose Hobart. 1994

41. Radical Juxtaposition: The Films of Yvonne Rainer, by Shelley Green. 1994

42. Company of Heroes: My Life as an Actor in the John Ford Stock Company, by Harry Carey, Jr. 1994

43. Strangers in Hollywood: A History of Scandinavian Actors in American Films from 1910 to World War II, by Hans J. Wollstein. 1994

44. Charlie Chaplin: Intimate Close-Ups, by Georgia Hale, edited with an introduction and notes by Heather Kiernan. 1995

45. Music from the House of Hammer: Music in the Hammer Horror Films, 19501980, by Randall D. Larson. 1995

46. The Word Made Flesh: Catholicism and Conflict in the Films of Martin Scorsese, by Michael Bliss. 1995

Intimate Close-Ups

Georgia Hale
Edited with an Introduction and Notes by
Heather Kiernan

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Hale, Georgia, d. 1985

Charlie Chaplin : intimate close-ups. / by Georgia Hale; edited with an introduction and notes by Heather Kiernan.

p. cm

Filmography: p.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-57886-004-3 (pbk : alk. paper)

1. Hale, Georgia, d. 1985. 2. Motion picture actors and actressesUnited StatesBiography. 3. Chaplin, Charlie, 1889-1977.

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For Papa and Mama Bessler
and in memory of
Ivor and Hell
with love

What is not original is of no importance, and what is original is bound to be fraught with the weakness of the individual.

GOETHE

In 1925 when Charlie Chaplins Gold Rush, in his own estimation the finest of all his films, was released, it made an immediate Hollywood star out of a pretty young actress named Georgia Hale. Sixty years later, in the year she died, Georgia was still receiving a trickle of fan mail from admirers round the world, who remembered the performance that earned her a permanent place in film history. Georgias appearance in The Gold Rush was her first major role, and although she continued to act in films until 1931, she would never again have a triumph of the kind she had initially enjoyed. In many ways her experience in Hollywood was typical of that of many young women attracted to the glamour of the silent film world, and then faced with premature oblivion.

The story of how Georgia Hale, the dress extra of Poverty Row, became for a while the leading lady to Charles Chaplin, is a classic example of the American success myth, though in her case success did not last for long. As Daniel Boorstin has written, the film star legend of the accidentally discovered