Tramp
The Life of Charlie Chaplin
Published on 1. July 2014
606 pages
978-1-4976-5916-2 (ISBN)
Description
Charlie Chaplin made an amazing seventy-one films by the time he was only thirty-three years old. He was known not only as the world's first international movie star, but as a comedian, a film director, and a man ripe with scandal, accused of plagiarism, communism, pacifism, liberalism, and anti-Americanism. He seduced young women, marrying four different times, each time to a woman younger than the last. In this animated biography of Chaplin, Joyce Milton reveals to us a life riddled with gossip and a struggle to rise from an impoverished London childhood to the life of a successful American film star. Milton shows us how the creation of his famous character-the Tramp, the Little Fellow-was both rewarding and then devastating as he became obsolete with the changes of time.
Trampis a perceptive, clever, and captivating biography of a talented and complicated man whose life was filled with scandal, politics, and art.
More details
Person
Joyce Milton is the author of
Loss of Eden: A Biography of Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh,
The Yellow Kids: Foreign Correspondents in the Heyday of Yellow Journalism,
Tramp: The Life of Charlie Chaplin,
The Rosenberg File(with Ronald Radosh), and
Vicki(with Anne Bardash).
Content
Cover
1"They Were Nothing ... Nothing ... NOTHING!"
2... A Romance of Cockayne
3A Film Johnnie
4Work
5The Vagabond
6"Camouflage"
7"The Black Panther"
8"A Total Stranger to Life"
9A Woman of Paris
10The Gold Rush
11The Circus
12City Lights
13"Disillusion of Love, Fame and Fortune"
14Modern Times
15The Great Dictator
16Shadow and Substance
17"The Public Wants a Victim!"
18Ladykiller
19Limelight
20"A King in Switzerland"
Author's Note
Endnotes
Acknowledgments
Index
Copyright
1"They Were Nothing ... Nothing ... NOTHING!"
2... A Romance of Cockayne
3A Film Johnnie
4Work
5The Vagabond
6"Camouflage"
7"The Black Panther"
8"A Total Stranger to Life"
9A Woman of Paris
10The Gold Rush
11The Circus
12City Lights
13"Disillusion of Love, Fame and Fortune"
14Modern Times
15The Great Dictator
16Shadow and Substance
17"The Public Wants a Victim!"
18Ladykiller
19Limelight
20"A King in Switzerland"
Author's Note
Endnotes
Acknowledgments
Index
Copyright
