He formed United Artists with Griffith, Pickford & Fairbanks & in 1915 lost a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest
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The Little Tramp (1914-1936) | The Film Spectrum  Aug 15, 2013 ... Producer: Charlie Chaplin (Charles Chaplin, United Artists) ... Chaplin once entered a Charlie Chaplin lookalike contestand finished third. ... Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford and D.W. Griffith, called United Artists, a sort ... And by 1921, he had directed his first feature, The Kid (1921), a fine chowcase for...
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Charles Chaplin - Biography - IMDb  In 1919 he and Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford and D.W. Griffith formed United .... In 1919, Chaplin co-founded the distribution company United Artists, which .... that he once entered a Charlie Chaplin lookalike contest and finished third! ... His first screen credit appeared on His New Job (1915), his first film for Essanay.
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Charlie Chaplin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - Parabola  In 1915, he burst onto a war-torn world bringing it the gift of comedy, laughter and ..... In 1919, Chaplin co-founded the United Artists film distribution company with Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and D. W. Griffith, all of whom were seeking to ..... Chaplin once entered a "Chaplin look-alike" competition and came in third.
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USHHH Flashcards | Quizlet  Charles Chaplin. He formed United Artists with Griffith, Pickford & Fairbanks & in 1915 lost a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest ..... League of Nations. An organization of nations formed after World War I to promote cooperation and peace.
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Jeopardy | 360 - WordPress.com  (an opera); He formed United Artists with Griffith, Pickford & Fairbanks & in 1915 lost a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest. (Charlie Chaplin). I love Jeopardy.
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The Tramp - Wikipedia  The character ("The Little Fellow," as Chaplin called him) was rarely referred to by any names onscreen, although he was sometimes identified as "Charlie" and...
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United Artists - Wikipedia  United Artists (UA) is an American film and television entertainment studio. The studio was founded in 1919 by D. W. Griffith, Charlie Chaplin, Mary .... A number of other independent producers distributed through United Artists in the 1930s ... In 1968, UA Records was merged with Liberty Records, along with their many...
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Slapstick - Wikipedia  A slapstick scene from the 1915 Charlie Chaplin film His New Job. Chaplin started his film career as a physical comedian and his later work continued to contain elements of slapstick. Slapstick is a style of humor involving exaggerated physical activity which exceeds the ... as Charlie Chaplin, Laurel and Hardy, the Marx Brothers, the Keystone Cops...
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Charlie Chaplin | British actor, director, writer, and composer ...  Aug 25, 2016 ... Ordered by Sennett to come up with a more-workable screen image, ... In The News / History ... All three were released by United Artists, the company cofounded in .... (Limelight would be given an Oscar for its score, to which Chaplin ... In 1972 he returned to the United States for the first time in 20 years to...
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United Artists created - Feb 05, 1919 - HISTORY.com  By 1919, Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and D.W. Griffith were all heavyweights in the rapidly growing motion-picture industry. Chaplin was...
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Charlie Chaplin : Filming City Lights  Charlie Chaplin and Virginia Cherrill in City Lights (1931). City Lights ... His first idea was that he himself should play a clown who loses his sight but tries to conceal his handicap from his little daughter. ... His Tramp character was universal.
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Comedy Films  Slapstick, one of the earliest forms of comedy, poked fun at farcical situations of physical ... pictures involved his bumbling comedy policemen, the Keystone Cops. ... Charlie Chaplin got his start at Keystone (his first film was the short Making a .... and Hardy, the Three Stooges, the Marx Brothers, and Abbott and Costello,...
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Charlie Chaplin - Charlie The Juggling Clown  The year 2014 is the centennial of the creation of Charlie Chaplin's Little Tramp. ... When he did dress as the tramp there was not yet a consistent character. ... the group's name does not have the modern American definition of silent acting. .... So he hired Marie Dressler, the most famous comedienne in America at the time,...
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Mary Pickford Chronology - Mary Pickford Foundation  Variety declares Little Mary Pickford comes into her own, and that she has ... December 1916: Mary and Douglas Fairbanks share an emotional drive ... They travel to Russia in July, and a film is made of their visit (A Kiss from Mary Pickford, 1927). .... February 1956: Mary sells her shares in United Artists for $3 million, after...
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City Lights (1931) - Articles - TCM.com  The Tramp falls in love with a blind flower girl (Virginia Cherrill) who, through a ... Other filmmakers have attempted to make silent films in the sound era since City Lights ... Initially Chaplin's subplot about the eccentric millionaire who befriends The ... In addition to writing, directing and starring in City Lights, Charlie Chaplin...
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jeopardy/3138_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  FILM TITLES | This Charlie Chaplin film lent its name to a famous bookstore that recently celebrated its 50th anniversary | City Lights. right: Tom. Wrong: Michael:...
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James Thurber and His 'Third-Rate' Artwork (1930) | Bill Peschel  Feb 22, 2012 ... ... the pre-creation shades of Scott Adams and Stephen Pastis smiled, ... Thurber backed into his career as a cartoonist, a not-surprising ... founder, Harold W. Ross, hoped would keep his weekly functioning. ... Their lack of drawing skill makes them personal: No one draws men ... Reader's Almanac: 12/8.
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Charlie Chaplin : Chaplin at Keystone: The Tramp is Born  In September 1913 he signed his first film contract for a period of one year with .... but remembering Sennett had expected me to be a much older man, I added a ... Moreover, Chaplin's Tramp character was reworked into the film's scenario to .... Chaplin said, All I need to make comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
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Charlie Chaplin - Pinterest  Douglas Fairbanks, Gloria Swanson, Mary Pickford, and Charlie Chaplin. ... Explore pickford films, fairbanks charlie, and more! ... mary pickford, fairbanks mary, actors charlie, silent film, chaplin fairbanks, chaplin douglas, silent movies, ...... "Robert Downey Jr. as Charlie Chaplin and Kevin Kline as Douglas Fairbanks, ".
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The sound era: City Lights to Limelight - Britannica  As the Little Tramp, Chaplin had mastered the subtle art of pantomime, and the ... Photograph:Charlie Chaplin in The Great Dictator (1940), directed and written by ... Adolf Hitler, to whom Chaplin bore a remarkable physical resemblance. Goddard played Hannah, the barber's Jewish friend, who flees Tomania after the...
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Charlie Chaplin - Wikipedia  Sir Charles Spencer "Charlie" Chaplin, KBE (16 April 1889  25 December 1977) was an ... In 1972, as part of a renewed appreciation for his work, Chaplin received an .... comedy company in 1906, and by 1908 he was one of their key performers. ..... The Kid was in production for nine months, until May 1920, and at 68...