Who Was Charles Chaplin?...

CHARLES CHAPLIN(1889-1977)  The most popular film comedian and one of the most gifted and important artists in the entire history of cinema, operator of a mythical character, Charlie, at the crossroads of many feelings established and derivatives in their critical and poetic society around him. Charles Spencer Chaplin was born on April 16, 1889 in Lambeth, London (England). His parents were devoted to music-hall, but sadly for little Charlie had a tragic fate: his father Charles died due to massive consumption of alcoholic and his mother Hannah was admitted to a psychiatric hospital. Before that, Charlie debuted five years in the actions of their parents and was for a long time touring Britain with their show. After losing her parents, Charles and his brother Sydney not stop wandering around orphanages know that loneliness and misery that so masterfully portrayed Chaplin in his later films. When Sydney, who was older than Charles, joined Fred Karno's troupe took with his brother and there were until, on an American tour were hired by Mack Sennett for Keystone company. In Keystone there was the revelation of Chaplin as a comedian, while Sydney, who had more success than   Charlie Karno was diminished its artistic category, but would be starring in several films and became the representative of his brother.   In 1914 he debuted in film and in the following years and participated in many short at first strongly influenced by the size of one of his idols, Max Linder, the sleek look of Linder soon bartered by the famous character The Tramp, a bum shabby little mustache with a cane and bowler hat. One of the greatest innovations of Chaplin in the world of comic cinema was that humanized the characters, emphasizing the world of emotions within the effervescent gags and frantic people who triumphed in the Keystone, like the famous Keystone Cops.   In 1915, Charles Chaplin, and become a star, signed with Essanay, where he directed, wrote and starred in one of his best films of this early period, "The Tramp / Tramp Tramp" (1915). In 1916, she joined the Mutual shorts where he starred as "Charlie stagehand Cinema" (1916), "The Rink" (1917) and "Easy Street" (1917), in 1918 signed a multimillion dollar contract with First National, reaching great success with his first feature, "The Kid" (1921).    In 1919 Charles Chaplin was created along with other superstars of the time as Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and David W. Griffith an independent company called United Artists. Charlie's first work distributed by United Artists was "A Woman of Paris" (1923) where Chaplin did not appear (he was seen in a cameo) as an actor. The film was played by Edna Purviance and Adolphe Menjou.