Category Archives: catching up with the chaplins

muriel

Jean-Baptiste Thierrée, Jean Champion, Delphine Seyrig in Muriel. Alain Resnais. 1963.

catching up with the chaplins

Chaplin directs

Chas — in costume and tortured-genius mode — on an boat in San Pedro with a jazz quartet during production of A Day’s Pleasure. 1919.

catching up with the chaplins

Chas in the editing room.

catching up with the chaplins

Chas directs Sophia Loren in A Countess from Hong Kong, as Syd and Jane look on. 1967.

catching up with the chaplins

Raymond Rohauer

David Gill (right) poses (I’ll assume reluctantly) with noted film-collecting dirtbag Raymond Rohauer as they move Rahauer’s stash of Chaplin outtakes from France to England so they can be sorted out for inclusion in Unknown Chaplin. 1981.

catching up with the chaplins

Chas with son Syd, Sophia Loren and Marlon Brando on the set of Countess from Hong Kong. 1967.

catching up with the chaplins

Chas allows daughters Josephine and Victoria to share his spotlight. Circa 1955.

catching up with the chaplins

Chas reflected in Oona‘s sunglasses.

party in the u.s.a!

Gary Cooper, Sally Eilers, Chaplin, Elsa Maxwell, Countess Dorothy Di Frasso, Jessica Stewart Sargent—wife of Richard Bartelmess, Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks. Circa 1928.

catching up with the chaplins

The freshly knighted Sir Chas poses with the family: Annette, Josephine, Oona, Christopher, Geraldine and Jane. March 4, 1975.