Robert Downey Jr. earned an Oscar nomination for playing Chaplin in a 1992 biopic.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "The first one is an audio interview that was done with Chaplin in the 1960s," Middleton said. "It was done by a guy called ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Is The Real Charlie Chaplin guilty of false advertising? Its title promises an excavation – it’s no secret that Chaplin was a ...

Telluride: Though not completely realized, Peter Middleton and James Spinney's documentary suggests a new path for non-fiction efforts about film history. “Icon” is the most overused word in film ...

Beloved as The Tramp, worshiped and then reviled and then worshiped again as one of the biggest stars in cinema history, Charlie Chaplin was an enigma, one that a new Showtime documentary tries to ...

Showtime documentary The Real Charlie Chaplin is a rarity, a biography that does justice to its topic, covering it from mop of curls to duck-toed boots, in two hours. Peter Middleton and James Spinney ...

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In the spring of 1889, the world got two of its strangest gifts. Within the same week, a baby boy was born to a sewing machine salesman in a small German town, and another was born to a pair of music ...

"Charles Chaplin's 'The Freak': The Story of an Unfinished Film" collects hundreds of storyboards, production memos, and script pages to give the reader a vivid picture of how the master director's ...

Los Angeles: Filmmaker-actor Carmen Chaplin is set to direct a theatrical documentary feature on her grandfather, screen legend Charlie Chaplin. Titled Charlie Chaplin, a Man of the World, the film ...

The Museum of Modern Art has worked on a meticulous restoration of Chaplin’s 1918 film “Shoulder Arms,” screening on Thursday, that likely differs in every frame from what viewers have seen. By Ben ...

Directors Peter Middleton and James Spinney said their documentary The Real Charlie Chaplin had two major hurdles. One was that there are already so many biographies about Chaplin, and the other is ...