Author: MCCABE, JOHN
Title: Charlie Chaplin
Description: Garden City. N. Y. : Doubleday 1978. First Edition. An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dw. now mylar-sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new.; 297 pages; Description: xii. 297 p. 8 leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm. Includes index. Bibliography: p. [245]-257. Filmography: p. [261]-279. Subjects: Chaplin. Charlie (1889-1977) --Motion picture actors and actresses --United States --Comedians --Biography. Summary: This is the definitive Chaplain biography - a magnificent portrait of the artist by noted film historian John McCabe. The published accounts of Chaplain's life. by himself and others. differ widely - and John McCabe has set out to find the truth behind the endless legends. misconceptions. and errors surrounding Chaplin's extraordinary odyssey. both public and private. McCabe. the biographer of Stan Laurel and George M. Cohan. has drawn not only from the available record but also from personal interviews. including his remarkable conversations with Stan Laurel. who knew Chaplain in his formative years on the English music hall stage. The result is a warm and richly illuminating look at a true phenomenon of our times. An enormously complicated man. born and raised in the slums of Victorian London. who turned the straightforward craft of slapstick into an art that astonished the world. With twenty-nine black-and-white illustrations. including a number of rare photographs; a select bibliography; filmography; and index. by John McCabe.ISBN: 0385114451. Weight in Kg appr.:

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