Actor and producer Charlie Chaplin was born on this day in history, April 16, 1889, in London. He went on to perfect and refine the character Charlie the Tramp — and was knighted in 1975.
, known by the stage name Lily Harley, was starring —"when her voice cracked," as History.com relates. Queen Elizabeth II, at left, shakes hands with actor Charlie Chaplin at the Empire Theatre in London on Oct. 27, 1952, for the Royal Film Show, a benefit performance to aid the Cinematograph Trade Benevolent Fund.That's when Chaplin, along with his older half-brother, Sydney, took to the streets of London.
FROM KATHERINE HEPBURN TO SHIRLEY TEMPLE: A LOOK BACK AT OLD HOLLYWOOD OSCARS AND LITTLE-KNOWN TRIVIA Chaplin is known for founding United Artists Corporation — with Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and director D.W. Griffith — in 1919. No surprise, then, that he reportedly resisted the arrival of sound in movies."City Lights" in 1931 was his first film to feature sound — and heUp-close shot of Charles Chaplin , without mustache. He achieved huge success with the character of"the tramp," a humorous and pathetic character that became world-famous.
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