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Adams Morgan
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By:
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Kenneth S. Lynn
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Lynn delves into Chaplin's childhood and family, his often controversial relationships with four wives and a slew of mistresses, and his associations with British music-hall impresario Fred Karno and silent-screen star and pal Douglas Fairbanks. He addresses Chaplin's political influences and convictions, and brings a keen, critical intelligence to the meaning of the films, illuminating Chaplin's elusive genius.
©1997 Kenneth S. Lynn (P)1997 Blackstone Audio Inc.Listeners also enjoyed...
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Critic reviews
"Kenneth S. Lynn...has produced an enormous, often fascinating, prodigiously researched book that goes off in all directions in search of the man behind the myth." (The New York Times)
"Chaplin's life is truly an enormous subject...and Lynn does a magisterial job of knitting it all together, allowing Chaplin to emerge as fresh and evocative as the Little Tramp in his first incarnation." (Booklist)
"Lynn deftly interweaves Chaplin's life with the events and personalities of his era....Lynn has done meticulous research....All a biography should be, this is enthusiastically recommended." (Library Journal)
What did you love best about Charlie Chaplin and His Times?
The writer gives a great deal of detail quoting a number of other books and how they differ in information and structure, this is a good book if you wanted to find out something about the man and his life.What did you like best about this story?
A great deal of detail but never boring.Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
too long for one sittingGood book lots of Information.
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Great Book
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Charlie toured with several acting companies around Britain and came to the United States in 1910. He made his first films in 1914 for the Keystone Studios and then onto Essanay Studios in 1915 where he created his first great film, "The Tramp." In 1917 Charlie founded his own studio in Hollywood and over the years turned out a remarkable series of movies that are classics today.
Charlie alternated between charming and using people, especially women. He never became an American citizen. Charlie was pro communist which forced him to leave the U.S. in 1952 at the height of the McCarthy era. He lived the rest of his life in Switzerland.
This is a scholarly work about a most remarkable and contradictory person. The reader, Adams Morgan, was also excellent.
A Most Remarkable and Contradictory Person
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It's Chaplin!
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Otherwise, great book, well documented very interesting. and the narrator was decent. well worth reading.
nothing new under the sun.
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Comprehensive biography of Charlie Chaplin
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Slow moving biography lacking information
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Too Much
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