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 ...

Charlie Chaplin's Limelight opened on October 23, 1952, launching what would become one of the strangest Oscar stories in Academy history. The film eventually became the only one for which Chaplin won ...

In creating his Little Tramp character, Chaplin took a social type that was reviled by official bourgeois society—the vagrant, the unemployed man, the person without property—and turned him into ...