It was one of the biggest gambles in Charlie Chaplin's career.

Beloved as The Tramp, worshiped and then reviled and then worshiped again as one of the biggest stars in cinema history, Charlie Chaplin was an enigma, one that a new Showtime documentary tries to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Is The Real Charlie Chaplin guilty of false advertising? Its title promises an excavation – it’s no secret that Chaplin was a ...

Telluride: Though not completely realized, Peter Middleton and James Spinney's documentary suggests a new path for non-fiction efforts about film history. “Icon” is the most overused word in film ...

Showtime documentary The Real Charlie Chaplin is a rarity, a biography that does justice to its topic, covering it from mop of curls to duck-toed boots, in two hours. Peter Middleton and James Spinney ...

Charlie Chaplin made the world laugh without saying a word, but his life was hardly a lighthearted comedy. Before the bowler hat and oversized shoes made him famous, he was a London child whose family ...

Directors Peter Middleton and James Spinney said their documentary The Real Charlie Chaplin had two major hurdles. One was that there are already so many biographies about Chaplin, and the other is ...

Hollywood studios did not want Charlie Chaplin to make The Great Dictator. When he first started writing the script in 1938, the U.S. had not yet entered World War II. In fact, it still enjoyed ...

"Charles Chaplin's 'The Freak': The Story of an Unfinished Film" collects hundreds of storyboards, production memos, and script pages to give the reader a vivid picture of how the master director's ...