Charlie Chaplin
Oct 05, 2018
2 minutes
WORDS LAWRENCE ALEXANDER
When his mother lost her voice mid-act, five-year-old Charlie was shoved onstage
Even people who have never seen a Charlie Chaplin movie know his ‘Little Tramp’, whose bowler hat, black moustache, baggy trousers and twirling cane dominated the early years of movie history.
Soon after his birth in London, in 1889, Charles Spencer
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