The 27-Year-Old Charlie Chaplin
Amazingly, Charlie Chaplin out of makeup looked a lot like one of his characters. Off-screen, Chaplin looked rather tired and disheveled in this picture. Perhaps he was just stepping off a long day of production. Chaplin was raised in a difficult home by an unsuccessful home where money was extremely scarce. He decided that the theatre would be his salvation and he departed from London to the United States where he quickly struck fame. He received inspiration for his character, the Tramp, from his recollections of his father. He described how “It was just released whole from somewhere deep within my father, it was really my father’s alter ego, the little boy who never grew up: ragged, cold, hungry, but still thumbing his nose at the world.”
The 27 Year Old Charlie Chaplin
