I'm a bit disappointed that they didn't even mention Buster Keaton in this movie, which they should have.
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dana_086 — 13 years ago(December 16, 2012 02:31 PM)
I agree. they should have, even in passing, because 1. from what I understand they were friends, frequenting the same people and all, 2. Chaplin and Keaton would exchange material from each other.
But given that this is more about his life than his career, I sort of understand the snub.
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KrazeeforKittiez — 12 years ago(January 23, 2014 05:54 PM)
Right..he was in Limelight. The part was given to him partly to help him get out of a career slump at the time.
Did not mention his other half brother Wheeler Dryden either Spencer's (Jefferson Airplane) father. He was a comedian in Europe when he realized Charlie was his brother. He contacted Edna Purviance who contacted Charlie. He came to America and reunited with his bros and subsequently worked with Chaplin.
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jconn426 — 11 years ago(September 08, 2014 09:43 AM)
"Tombstone" left out two Earp brothers (Warren and Newton), "Yankee Doodle Dandy" dropped the first Mrs. George M. Cohan and had him playing FDR on Broadway in the 40's instead of the 30's, and "Night and Day" was a complete whitewash of Cole Porter's life, not to mention that his friend/lover Monty Wooley starred as himself, forcing the writers to change him from Porter's real-life fellow Yale student into his on-screen professor instead.
And He has on His robe and on His thigh a name written:KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS.
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littlenightmusic-15077 — 10 years ago(November 26, 2015 02:55 PM)
Chaplin, Lloyd and Keaton were the biggies of the silent movie era. It would have been nice, even just to mention he and Keaton were in Limelight together. BTW, in the scene where they performed together it is noted through many sources that Keaton stole the show and, having seen it, I agree!
But yes, this is
Chaplin- so I see the point.
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Starcraft_rules — 10 years ago(March 02, 2016 07:00 AM)
The movie is incredibly poor in details, it's the collection of Chaplin memes. Remember the story of how Chaplin thought Tramp would be dead is he talks? It's in the movie word by word. Everyone is calling Chaplin "Charlie" in this, even though he was always credited as Charles. Movies goes with Charlie because that's his meme name as of today (or 1992).
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lynnrnsd — 10 years ago(March 20, 2016 07:55 PM)
From what I've read (and I could be wrong) that's what his friends called him. He may have been credited as Charles, but his friends called him Charlie. It's also in the trivia section for this movie, if you believe what you read there.
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emmasearle-54926 — 9 years ago(July 07, 2016 03:05 AM)
His childhood is very rushed too. I appreciate that people watching the film are generally only interested in him as an adult, but his autobiography really went into detail about how he survived as a child, his father, his father's new wife and all the little jobs he had to survive as a child. He was also cast in plays in the theatre. Very interesting.