Charlie Chaplin's Limelight opened on October 23, 1952, launching what would become one of the strangest Oscar stories in ...

The young Charlie spent time in workhouses, surviving through performance—first as a child entertainer in the music halls, later as a vaudeville comedian with Fred Karno’s troupe, which took him to ...

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 ...