“Charlie’s life raft was show business,” says Scott Eyman, author of Charlie Chaplin vs. America. But even as Charlie honed his comedy antics in vaudeville, he grew into a “lone wolf ...

When Charlie Chaplin left America for the U.K. in 1952 to promote his film "Limelight," the actor’s reentry papers were revoked, and he spent the rest of his life in exile. The silent movie star ...

Plenty of directors have impacted popular culture, and Charlie Chaplin is one of the most influential ones. He has worked on dozens of movies and made audiences laugh with his silent films.

Charlie Chaplin was a silent film star of the early ... However, her own biography, entitled Wife of the Life of the Party: A Memoir, was published three years after her death.

In “The Gold Rush” Chaplin's lone prospector ambles through the snowy Alaskan wilds in pursuit less of gold than some food and perhaps companionship. His antic, cliff-dangling struggles make up much ...

Another book, "Tramp: The Life of Charlie Chaplin" by Joyce Milton, told a similar story, claiming that Chaplin "failed even to make the finals" when he took part in his own look-alike contest ...

“A Chaplin movie was an event, even by 1918,” said Scott Eyman, the author of the recent biography “Charlie Chaplin vs ... the 1985 book “Chaplin: His Life and Art.” ...

Comic star's grandchildren attend premiere of freshened-up silent masterpiece about Alaska frontier, as part of Cannes Film Festival's new day-one tradition for restored films ...