Charles Chaplin: My Autobiography (1964)
12 October 2014, dusan
Filed under book | Tags: · acting, biography, cinema, film
“Born into a theatrical family, Chaplin’s father died of drink while his mother, unable to bear the poverty, suffered from bouts of insanity, Chaplin embarked on a film-making career which won him success, as well as intense controversy. His autobiography was written almost entirely without reference to documentation – simply as a feat of memory by a 75 year old man. It is a vivid reconstruction of a poor London childhood, the music hall and then his prodigious life in the movies.”
First published by Simon and Schuster, 1964
Publisher Pocket Books, New York, 1966
560 pages
Review (F.W. Dupee, The New York Review of Books, 1964)
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