CHAPLIN: A LIFE
By: Weissman, Stephen M.
Chaplin is arguably the single most important artist produced by the cinema,
wrote film critic Andrew Sarris. Born in London in 1889, Charlie Chaplin grew up
in dire poverty. Severe alcoholism cut short his father's flourishing career,
and his beloved mother first lost her voice, then her mind, to syphilis. How did
this poor, lonely child, committed to the Hanwell School for the Orphaned and
Destitute, become such an extraordinary comedian, known and celebrated
worldwide? Dr. Stephen M. Weissman brilliantly illuminates both the screen
legend himself and the turbulent era that shaped him. TitlePeek
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