Read e-book online Charlie Chaplin's Red Letter Days: At Work with the Comic PDF

By Fred Goodwins,David James

ISBN-10: 1442278080

ISBN-13: 9781442278080

By the tip of 1914, Charlie Chaplin had develop into the most well-liked actor in movies, and newshounds have been clamoring for interviews with the comedy sensation. yet no reporter had extra entry than Fred Goodwins. A British actor who joined Chaplin’s inventory corporation in early 1915, Goodwins all started writing brief bills of existence on the studio and submitted them to guides. In February 1916 the British journal Red Letter released the 1st of what grew to become a chain of greater than thirty-five of Goodwins’s articles. Written in breezy prose, the articles conceal a two-year interval in which Chaplin’s acceptance and creativity reached new heights. just one reproduction of the entire sequence is understood to exist, and its fresh rediscovery marks an important locate for Chaplin fans.

Charlie Chaplin’s Red Letter Days: At paintings with the comedian Genius is a shiny account of the ebb and circulate of lifestyles on the Chaplin studio. Goodwins was once an astute observer who deepens our realizing of Chaplin’s artistry and sheds new gentle on his character. He additionally offers captivating and revealing pics of Chaplin’s unsung collaborators, comparable to his loved costar Edna Purviance, his burly nemesis Eric Campbell, and different universal faces that populate his movies. Goodwins depicts Chaplin within the white warmth of inventive construction, an indefatigable imp unique and encouraging the corporate at the set. He additionally describes gloomy, agonizing sessions while Chaplin used to be paralyzed with indecision or exhaustion, or just annoyed that it was once raining they usually couldn’t shoot.

Reproduced right here for the 1st time, the articles were edited by way of movie historian David James and annotated through Chaplin specialist Dan Kamin to spotlight their revelations. Illustrated with a variety of infrequent photographs that replicate the Chaplin craze, together with posters, sheet song, and journal covers, Charlie Chaplin’s Red Letter Days provides a desirable expedition into the personal international of the long-lasting famous person whose motion pictures flow and pleasure audiences to this present day. it is going to attract motion picture fanatics, comedy buffs, and somebody who desires to understand what rather went on behind the curtain with Chaplin and his crew.

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