silence is golden

I have to confess that i was quite old when i saw my first Chaplin movie, i was maybe as old as i am now, well 3week younger than i`m now to be honest, but in the end isn`t that what we all want to be?

but when i finally got around to see one i went to a viewing with live music played by the Oslo philharmonics. Like in many other of his film he had also written the music for The Circus(1928) as done most other things like casting, written and produced it.

Merna Kennedy from The Circus,
rumor has it that she had an affair
whit Charles during shoting of the film.

It was a good film, i was really entertained and so was the rest of the audience, and some how thats very funny; that in 2007 as well in 2008 were there is so much stuff to be entertained by it doesn`t take more that a cake in the face to make people fall off their chairs. (yes it contained a banana skin joke too). not to forget the great story.

for xmas i got a 3 movie Chaplin box containing Modern Times(1936) (a film in which he goes to jail accused of being a communist ,drinks a lot takes amphetamine and is put to a mental institution) , City Light(1931) and The Great Dictator (1940) great films all of them, well TGD was so and so, but hopefully more on that some other time.

Paulette Goddard, played in both TGD and Modern Times, and was married to Charles for a couple of years.

what intrigues me with all of these film are the women. Chaplin plays "The Tramp" like in most of his films, and then there is, at least in the four films mentioned here, a woman. And always played by a foxy lady at least in 1920 standards, and without exception i fall in love with these characters. And why not, falling in love with dead people is harmless isn`t it, and my girlfriend can`t be jealous at them, coz they are all dead, i`ve checked .

me and Charles probably shared the same test in women, "ed" coz he`s dead too, he often dated had affairs, and even married the women he played against.

till next time,

herr w

Virginia Cherrill from
City Light was discovered by
Charles while sitting beside
him at a boxing match in LA.