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| Charlie Chaplin won three Academy Awards - an Honorary Oscar® for "The Circus" [1928], an Honorary Oscar® in 1972, and a Best Original Score Oscar® in 1973 for the re-release of "Limelight" [1952] plus 3 Oscar® nominations (1941 & 1948) |
He also won
four Kinema Junpo Awards (1925-61)
the Venice Film Festival Career Golden Lion (1972)
the D.G.A. Honorary Life Member Award (1974)
and a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
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"The Complete Films of Charlie Chaplin" [1965] by Gerald McDonald, Michael Conway & Mark Ricci Citadel Press 2nd edition 11x8½ pb [8/88] out of print/used |
Chaplin's Short Films
Charlie Chaplin's credits at Internet Movie Database
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Madacy's Chaplin Shorts Collection DVD box set [1999]
CAVEAT EMPTOR: Amazon reviewers say these are terrible transfers to DVD - your call! Madacy b&w DVD box set [2/99] 5 disks - out of prodn/used |
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"Chaplin's Essanay Comedies" [1999]
Volume 1: "His New Job" [1915]; "A Night Out" [1915]; "The Champion" [1915]; "In The Park" [1915]; and "A Jitney Elopement" [1915] Image Ent. b&w DVD [9/99] for $21.99 Volume 2: "The Tramp" [1915]; "By the Sea" [1915]; "Work" [1915]; "A Woman" [1915]; "The Bank" [1915]; and "His Regeneration" [1915] Image Ent. b&w DVD [9/99] for $21.99 Volume 3: "Shanghaied" [1915]; "A Night In The Show" [1915]; "Burlesque On Carmen" [1915]; "Police" [1916]; and "Triple Trouble" [1916] Image Ent. b&w DVD [9/99] for $21.99 |
 | "The First National Studios Shorts" [2000] includes "Shoulder Arms" [1918], "Sunnyside" [1919], "A Day's Pleasure' [1919], "The Idle Class" [1921], "Pay Day" [1922], "The Pilgrim" [1923] Image Ent. b&w DVD [3/2000] out of prodn/used |
 | "Essential Charlie Chaplin" box set [2002]
covers Chaplin's work at the Keystone, Essanay, Mutual & First National film companies (57 of Chaplin’s legendary early films in chronological order) Delta b&w DVD [4/2002] 12 disks out of prodn/used |
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"The Complete Restored Essanay & Mutual Shorts" [2003]
Image Ent. b&w DVD [7/2003] 7 disks for $62.99 |
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"Charlie Chaplin: 51 Features!" [2005] St. Clair Ent. b&w DVD [7/2005] 3 disks for $7.98 "featuring 'Easy Street', 'The Kid', 'The Tramp' and so many more; bonus features: Charlie Chaplin stunt reel, 'The Evolution of The Tramp', and a Chaplin biography" |
 | "The Little Tramp: The Charlie Chaplin Collection" [2006]
Pasport b&w DVD set [6/2006] 5 disks for $17.99 extras include: rare Charlie Chaplin cartoon material; "Seeing Stars" [1922], an ultra-rare First National promotional short showing Chaplin out of make-up & being waited on by Buster Keaton!, and "Hollywood Rivals: Charlie Chaplin vs. Buster Keaton" [51-minute docu]; silent shorts include: "A Day's Pleasure" [1919]; "A Dog's Life" [1918]; "A Film Johnny" [1914]; "A Jitney Elopement" [1915]; "A Night Out" [1915]; "A Night In The Show" [1915]; "The Adventurer" [1917]; "Between Showers" [1914]; "Behind The Screen" [1916]; "Burlesque On Carmen" [1915]; "Caught In A Cabaret" [1914]; "The Champion" [1915]; "Charlie On The Windmill" [??]; "Charlie and The Indians" [??]; "The Count" [1916]; "Cruel Cruel Love" [1914]; "The Cure" [1917]; "Dough and Dynamite" [1914]; "Easy Street" [1917]; "The Fireman" [1916]; "The Floorwalker" [1916]; "His New Pro- fession" aka "The Good For Nothing" [1915]; "The Idle Class" [1921]; "The Immigrant" [1917]; "In The Park" [1915]; "Kid Auto Races At Venice" [1914]; "Mabel At The Wheel" [1914]; "Mabel's Busy Day" [1914]; "Mabel's Married Life" [1914]; "Making A Living" [1914]; "Masquerader" [1914]; "One A.M." [1916]; "The Pawnshop" [1916]; "Pay Day" [1922]; "Police" [1916]; "The Rink" [1916]; "The Rival Mashers" aka "Those Love Pangs" [1914]; "The Rounders" [1914]; "Shanghaied" [1915]; "Shoulder Arms" [1918]; "Sunnyside" [1919]; "Tango Tangles" aka "Charlie's Recreation" [1914]; "The Tramp" [1915]; "Triple Trouble" [1916]; and"The Vagabond" [1916] |
 | "Chaplin Mutual Comedies: 90th Anniversary Restored Edition" [2006]
includes "The Floorwalker" [1916]; "The Fireman" [1916]; "The Vagabond" [1916]; "One A.M." [1916]; "The Count" [1916]; "The Pawnshop" [1916]; "Behind The Screen" [1916]; "The Rink" [1916]; "Easy Street" [1917]; "The Cure" [1917]; "The Immigrant" [1917]; "The Adventurer" [1917]; and two rarely-seen documentaries "The Gentlerman Tramp" [1975] and "Chaplin's Goliath" [1996] Image Ent. b&w DVD set [7/2006] 4 disks for $53.99 |
 | "Legends of Hollywood: Charlie Chaplin" [2007]
CAVEAT EMPTOR: 57 short films on 5 disks, {badly} panned & scanned B.C.I. / Eclipse b&w DVD set [7/2007] 5 disks for $8.49 plus a bonus disk of "Road To Rio" [1947] starring Bob Hope, Bing Crosby & Dorothy Lamour |
"The Tramp"
[Essanay/General April 1915 silent 32-minute short]
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Charlie saves a farmer's daughter bothered by a hobo, then prevents three hoboes from breaking into the farmhouse; Charlie fails as a farm hand, and when the girl's fiance arrives, Charlie leaves a note and returns to the open road.
Written, directed & edited by and starring Charles Chaplin; co-starring Edna Purviance, Ernest Van Pelt, Paddy McGuire, Lloyd Bacon, Leo White & Bud Jamison
available on several DVD sets above; full credits from IMDb tan 11"x17" poster {at left} from Amazon for $14.99 |
Chaplin's Feature Films
Charlie Chaplin's credits at Internet Movie Database
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Warner Video Chaplin Collection [2003-2004]
Volume 1: "The Gold Rush" [1925], "Modern Times" [1936], "The Great Dictator" [1940], "Limelight" [1952] Warner b&w DVD [7/2003] 8 disks for $66.99 Volume 2: "The Kid" [1920]; "A Woman of Paris" [1923]; "The Circus" [1928]; "City Lights" [1931]; "Monsieur Verdoux" [1947]; "A King In New York" [1957]; "The Chaplin Revue" [1959]; and the documentary "Charlie: The Life & Art of Charles Chaplin" Warner b&w DVD [3/2004] 7 disks for $84.99 |
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"The Kid" [First National Feb 1921]
Produced, written, directed & edited by and starring Charles Chaplin;
co-starring Jackie Coogan {as The Kid}, Carl Miller & Edna Purviance
full credits from IMDb
"The Idle Class" [First National Sept 1921]
Produced, written, directed & edited by and starring Charles Chaplin {dual role};
co-starring Edna Purviance & Lita Grey; full credits from IMDb
"Pay Day" [First National April 1922]
Produced, written, directed & edited by and starring Charles Chaplin;
co-starring Phyllis Allen, Mack Swain, Edna Purviance & Syd Chaplin;
full credits from IMDb
"The Pilgrim" [First National Feb 1923]
Produced, written, directed & edited by and starring Charles Chaplin;
co-starring Edna Purviance, Syd Chaplin & Mack Swain; full credits from IMDb
"A Woman of Paris" [United Artists Sept 1923]
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Produced, written, directed & edited by Charles Chaplin; starring Edna Purviance, Carl Miller & Adolphe Menjou
Warner DVD with "A King In New York" [3/2004] 2 disks for $26.99 full credits from IMDb |
"The Gold Rush" [United Artists June 1925]
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Produced, written, directed & edited by and starring Charles Chaplin; co-starring Mack Swain, Tom Murray, Georgia Hale & Lita Grey
full credits from IMDb "The Gold Rush" sound re-release [United Artists May 1942] original music by Charles Chaplin; nominated for two Oscars; listed at the National Film Registry (1992) Warner Home Video Special Edition b&w DVD [7/2003] 2 disks for $26.99 Creative Design Limited Edition Collectors Set b&w DVD [11/2003] out of prodn/used |
"A Woman of The Sea"
[United Artists; filmed 1926, never released]
Produced by Charles Chaplin; written & directed by Josef von Sternberg; starring Edna Purviance, Eve Southern,
Raymond Bloomer, Charles K. French & Gayne Whitman; negative/elements burned in 1933; full credits from IMDb
"Camille" [1926 silent short]
Described as a home movie, with crew credits incomplete; actors include Anita Loos (as Camille), Charles Chaplin,
Paul Robeson, Yvonne Printemps, Aileen Pringle, Ethel Barrymore, Chauncey Olcott, Serge Kousevitzky, Georges
Lepape, Charles G. Shaw, Sinclair Lewis, Somerset Maugham, Clarence Darrow, Theodore Dreiser, Sherwood
Anderson, Sacha Guitry, Alfred Knopf, H.L. Mencken & Rex Ingram;
full credits from IMDb
"The Circus" [United Artists Jan 1928]
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Produced, written, directed & edited by and starring Charles Chaplin; co-starring Al Ernest Garcia, Merna Kennedy, Harry Crocker, George Davis, Henry Bergman, Tiny Sandford, John Rand & Steve Murphy; won Honorary Oscar
Warner b&w Special Edition DVD [3/2004] 2 disks for $26.99 full credits from IMDb |
"City Lights" [United Artists Feb 1931]
Produced, written, directed, original music & editing by and starring Charles Chaplin;
co-starring Virginia Cherrill, Florence Lee, Harry Myers, Al Ernest Garcia & Hank Mann;
listed at the National Film Registry (1991);
full credits from IMDb
Warner b&w Special Edition DVD [3/2004] 2 disks for $24.99
Creative Design Limited Edition Collectors Set b&w DVD [11/2003] out of prodn/rare
"Modern Times" [United Artists Feb 1936]
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Produced, written, directed & original music by and starring Charles Chaplin; co-starring Paulette Goddard, Henry Bergman, Tiny Sandford, Chester Conklin, Al Ernest Garcia & Murdock MacQuarrie; listed at the National Film Registry (1989);
full credits from IMDb
Creative Design Limited Edition Collectors Set b&w DVD [7/2003] 3 disks for $53.99 |
"Charlie Chaplin Carnival" [1938]
A package of four Chaplin silent shorts from 1916: "Behind The Screen", "The Count", "The Fireman", and
"The Vagabond", with music and sound effects;
full credits from IMDb
"Charlie Chaplin Cavalcade" [1938]
A package of four Chaplin silent shorts from 1916: "One A.M.", "The Rink", "The Pawnshop", and
"The Floorwalker", presented with music and sound effects;
full credits from IMDb
"Charlie Chaplin Festival" [1938]
A package of four Chaplin silent shorts from 1917: "The Adventurer", "The Cure", "Easy Street" and
"The Immigrant", presented with music and sound effects;
full credits from IMDb
"The Great Dictator" [United Artists Oct 1940]
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Chaplin's first talkie; an amnesiac Jewish barber (Chaplin) is released from hospital unaware of a resemblance to his country's new dictator, Adenoid Hynkle (also Chaplin). Temporary favoritism of the Jews is soon replaced with shipment to concentration camps; the barber and a sympa- thetic officer escape and are captured by enemy forces, who believe that the barber is the dictator. The bogus dictator then delivers a lyrical six-minute radio speech advocating peace.
Produced, written, directed & original music by and starring Charles Chaplin; co-starring Paulette Goddard, Jack Oakie, Reginald Gardiner, Henry Daniell & Billy Gilbert; Oscar nominated for Best Picture, Best Original Script, Best Actor (CC), Best Supporting Actor (JO), Best Original Score; listed on the National Film Registry in 1997
Warner special edition DVD [7/2003] 2 disks for $26.99 Image Ent b&w DVD [4/2000] out of stock/used Creative Design Limited Edition DVD [7/2003] 3 disks / out of prodn/used full credits from IMDb • official movie site |
"Monsieur Verdoux" [United Artists Apr 1947]
 | Produced, written, directed & original music by and starring Charles Chaplin; co-starring Martha Raye; Oscar nom for Best Original Script
full credits from IMDb 2008 reissue official movie site |
"Limelight" [United Artists Oct 1952]
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Produced, written, directed & original music by and starring Charles Chaplin; co-starring Claire Bloom, Nigel Bruce, Buster Keaton, Sydney Chaplin & 'Snub' Pollard; won Oscar in 1973 for Best Original Music
full credits from IMDb |
"A King In New York"
[Chaplin/Attica U.K. Sept 1957; USA release 1973]
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Chaplin plays an exiled king who is suspected of Communist symapathies and ordered to testify before a panel similar to the House Un-American Activities Committee.
Produced, written, directed & original music by and starring Charles Chaplin; co-starring Maxine Audley, Jerry Desmonde, Oliver Johnston, Dawn Addams, Sid James, Joan Ingram & Michael Chaplin
Warner DVD with "A Woman of Paris" [3/2004] 2 disks for $26.99 Fox b&w VHS [1989] out of stock/used full credits from IMDb |
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"The Chaplin Revue"
[United Artists Sept 1959]
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Chaplin edited three silent comedies – "A Dog's Life" [1918], "Shoulder Arms" [1918], and "The Pilgrim" [1923] – together to form a 2-hour comedy released in 1959; written, produced, directed & music by and starring Charles Chaplin; co-starring Albert Austin, Henry Bergman, Syd Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Mack Swain & Loyal Underwood; credits at IMDb
Warner b&w Special Edition DVD [3/2004] 2 disks for $28.48 the package also includes shorts "How to Make Movies" [1918], "The Bond" [1918], "A Day's Pleasure" [1919], "Sunnyside" [1919], "The Idle Class" [1921], & "Pay Day" [1922], plus posters & other extras |
"A Countess From Hong Kong"
[Universal U.K. Jan 1967]
Produced, written, directed & original music by Charles Chaplin; his only color film; starring Marlon Brando,
Sophia Loren, Sydney Chaplin, Tippi Hedren, Patrick Cargill & Margaret Rutherford;
full credits from IMDb
"The Adding Machine" [Universal Sept 1969]
| A meek accountant with a shrewish wife is replaced after 25 years by an adding machine; he is arrested for the murder of his boss and executed, and arriving in Heaven is shocked at the way things work. Co-written & directed by Jerome Epstein; co-written by Charles Chaplin, based on a play by Elmer Rice; starring Milo O'Shea, Phyllis Diller, Billie Whitelaw, Sydney Chaplin, Julian Glover, Carol Cleveland & Raymond Huntley; full credits from IMDb |
Other Videos & DVDs
"The Gentleman Tramp"
[indep documentary 1975, USA April 1978]
 | Written & directed & edited by Richard Patterson; narrated by Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau & Laurence Olivier
available on DVD as part of the 2006 Mutual shorts collection above M.P.I. Home Video b&w/color VHS [10/94] out of prodn/used full credits from IMDb 11"x17" poster from Amazon for $14.99 |
"Unknown Chaplin: The Master At Work"
[BBC-TV documentary Jan 1983; P.B.S. July 1986]
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Never-before-seen out-takes & other rare footage, from the Chaplin vaults.
Written, produced & directed by Kevin Brownlow & David Gill; won Emmy for Outstanding Informational Series
A&E/Thames color DVD [11/2005] for $19.99 full credits from IMDb |
"Chaplin" [TriStar Dec 1992]
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Lovingly made bio-film covering Charlie's early life in England, his professional success and personal failures in Hollywood, and his exile in Switzerland.
Produced & directed by Richard Attenborough; color cinematography by Sven Nykvist; starring Robert Downey Jr. {as Charlie}, Geraldine Chaplin, Paul Rhys, Moira Kelly, Anthony Hopkins, Penelope Ann Miller, Dan Aykroyd, Marisa Tomei, Kevin Kline, Maria Pitillo, Deborah Moore, Diane Lane & Nancy Travis; Oscar noms for Best Actor [RD], Best Original Score, Best Art Direction; won BAFTA for Best Actor [RD]
Lions Gate letterbox-widescreen color DVD [5/98] for $10.99 Lions Gate widescreen color VHS [3/98] out of prodn/used Lions Gate color VHS [1/99] out of prodn/used Sony soundtrack CD by John Barry [12/92] for $9.98 full credits from IMDb • film entry at Wikipedia 'Perfect Charlie' film fansite • SM's film fansite |
"Charlie Chaplin: The Forgotten Years"
[Swiss-French TV May 2003]
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Co-written & co-directed by Beat Hirt & Felice Zenoni; with the participation of Geraldine Chaplin, Eugene Chaplin, Michael Chaplin, Sir Peter Ustinov, Petula Clark, Liselotte Pulver, Sophia Loren & others
Arts Alliance America DVD [10/2005] for $9.98 full credits from IMDb |
"Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin"
[Warner Home Video Feb 2004]
 | A dazzling two-hour-plus documentary by critic Schickel, with clips from Chaplin films and interviews of Woody Allen, Richard Attenborough, Claire Bloom, Geraldine Chaplin, Sydney Chaplin, Johnny Depp, Robert Downey Jr., Milos Forman, Marcel Marceau, composer David Raksin, critic Andrew Sarris, Martin Scorsese, Jeffrey Vance and others.
Written & directed by Richard Schickel; narrated by Sydney Pollack MK2 / Warner Home Video widescreen color/b&w DVD [3/2004] out of prodn/used also available {new} on the "Warner Video Chaplin Collection, Volume 2" {details above} Warner b&w DVD [3/2004] 7 disks for $84.99 full credits from IMDb |
The Music of Charles Chaplin
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"Charlie Chaplin: His Essential Film Music Collection" [2006]
Silva America music CD [2/2006] 2 disks for $22.98 Disk 1 is Chaplin's music, including 'The Reel Chaplin' suite; Disk 2 is music composed & conducted by Carl Davis for Chaplin films |
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"Making Music With Charlie Chaplin: An Autobiography" [2000] by Eric James Scarecrow Press 9x6 pb [4/2000] for $33.95 |
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"Oh! That Cello: Music by Charlie Chaplin" [1998] Performed by Thomas Beckmann & Johannes Cernota Lightyear audio CD [4/98] out of prodn/rare |
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"Charlie !: Music From The Classic Films of Charles Chaplin" [1993] Performed by the Munich Symphony Orchestra, led by Francis Shaw Silva America audio CD [9/93] out of prodn/used |
Books
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"My Autobiography" [S&S 1964] by Charlie Chaplin Penguin Classics 7½x5 pb [4/2003] out of print/used Plume 7x5 pb [12/92] out of print/used S&S hardcover [2/78] out of print/used |
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"The Gentleman Is A Tramp: Charlie Chaplin's Comedy" [1989] by Claudia Clausius Peter Lang Publng 8¾x6 hardcover [3/89] for $40.95 |
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"Charlie Chaplin: Intimate Close-Ups" [1995] by Georgia Hale {actress in "The Gold Rush" [1925]} Scarecrow Press 9x6 pb [11/99] for $25.95 Scarecrow Press 9¼x6¼ hardcover [4/95] out of print/used |
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"The Chaplin Encyclopedia" [1997] by Glenn Mitchell B.T. Batsford 9¾x7½ pb [12/97] out of print/used |
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"Oona: Living In The Shadows - A Biography of Oona O'Neill Chaplin" [1998] by Jane Scovell Grand Central Publng 8½x5½ pb [11/99] for $19.99 Warner Books 9¾x6½ hardcover [11/98] out of print/many used |
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"A Few Minutes Past Midnight" [#21=2001]
In December 1943, a man show up on Charlie Chaplin's doorstep weilding a knife. The out-of-favor comedy star hires P.I. Toby Peters, whose investigation gets more and more muddled. Orion mass pb [7/2003] out of print/used Carroll & Graf Publrs 9x6 hardcover [8/2001] out of print/used |
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"Chaplin: Genius of The Cinema" [2003] by Jeffrey Vance Abrams 12x9¼ hardcover [10/2003] for $36.50 bargain priced hardcover [undated] for $21.99 |
 | "Art By Film Directors" [2004] by Karl French
includes chapters on Charlie Chaplin, Jean Cocteau, Sergei Eisenstein, Federico Fellini, Terry Gilliam, Peter Greenaway, Alfred Hitchcock, Dennis Hopper, John Huston, Takeshi Kitano, Stanley Kubrick, Akira Kurosawa, Fritz Lang, Alan Parker, Gordon Parks, Satyajit Ray, Martin Scorsese, Josef von Sternberg, Wim Wenders, and others Mitchell Beazley 11½x9½ hardcover [11/2004] for $30.40 |
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"Charlie Chaplin At Keystone and Essanay: Dawn of The Tramp" [2005] by Ted Okuda & David Maska iUniverse 9x5¾ pb [8/2005] for $18.95 |
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"Silent Traces: Discovering Early Hollywood Through the Films of Charlie Chaplin" [2006] by John Bengtson & Kevin Brownlow Santa Monica Press 8½x11 pb [8/2006] for $16.47 |
 | "The Essential Chaplin: Perspectives On The Life & Art of The Great Comedian" [2006] Edited by Richard Schickel Ivan R. Dee, Publr 8½x5½ pb [7/2006] for $13.22 Ivan R. Dee, Publr 8½x6 hardcover [7/2006] out of print/used |
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