CRUEL,CRUEL LOVE - 1914 - KEYSTONE
The New Janitor (1914)
Keystone Comedies
Charlie becomes a janitor only to be fired when he drops a pail of water on his boss’head. As he departs he hears a secretery’s pleas for help… he saves the secretary and get his job back.
Charlie would go on to play a bank janitor who saves a secretary again from a robbery in Essanay’s The Bank 1915.
I have never been able to come aross a clean clear copy of this picture.
This is from a photo shoot that was done in 1922 by renowned photographer James Abbe. Charlie Chaplin in his costume for his last film with First National “THE PILGRIM”.
source:
http://www.friendsreunited.co.uk/charlie-chaplin-and-ian-hay-1918/Memory/35612c3d-3305-4520-9a56-a00c00c69c57
A Sentimental Charlie~for~chaplinfortheages
THE KID - 1921
Reading the note the tramp realizes the baby he has found is an orphan.
Tango Tangles - March 9, 1914 - Keystone
While Charlie would appear briefly with out his tramp costume in the Keystone film the Masquerader (in that film he also would play a woman, as he did in the Keystone “A Busy Day” and Essany’s ” A Woman ) this was the only film where he would appear with out tramp costume and as a dapper Charles Chaplin through out. This film was done at an actual dance hall during a competion.
Charlie Chaplin and his morale lifting contribution to the military men in World War I.
These are lovely pictures from a September 1918 “Penny Pictorial” & April 1919 ”Photoplay” magazine, during and after World War I wounded soliders in military hospitals around the world were shown Charlie Chaplin films to lift their spirits, for men who were unable to sit up they played Charlie’s films on the ceiling.
http://chaplin.bfi.org.uk/resources/bfi/biog/biog_thumb.php?fid=biog7&resource=
