![]() ![]() Re-issue of Charlie Chaplin’s “A Comedian Sees the World” with annotations and hyper-textual enhancements by Lisa Stein A Legion d’honneur medal, “hate” mail from King George, a photo of a tanned and smiling Chaplin posing with Mahatma Ghandi and entourage, a pith helmet, an idea for a new “topless” male swimsuit, and evidence of a foiled assassination plot. This engrossing and definitive work, the only biography written with full access to Chaplin’s archives, tells the whole story of a brilliant, complex man. His life was marked by extraordinary contrasts: the child of London slums who became a multimillionaire the on-screen clown who was a driven perfectionist behind the cameras the adulated star who publicly fell from grace after personal and political scandal. The greatest icon in the history of cinema, Charlie Chaplin lived one of the most dramatic rags to riches stories ever told. «My Autobiography» is an evocative and compelling account of one of the twentieth century’s most remarkable lives. He tells of his childhood of grinding poverty in the south London slums and early debut on the musical hall stage, his lucky break in America, the struggle to maintain artisitic control over his work, the string of failed marriages, and his eventual exile from Hollywood after persecution for his left-wing politics and personal scandals. ![]()
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