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Show People - 1928
Charlie made a cameo in this Marion Davies, William Haines film.
The joke - the most famous man in the world is unrecognizable outside his tramp costume.
Just a side note: Marion Davies was very aware of who Charlie Chaplin was:), they were on and off again lovers for many years
Charlie Chaplin & Sophia Loren, set of “A Countess of Hong Kong”, 1966. Sophia Loren adored Charlie Chaplin, as recently as a few years ago had this to say about him:
“I put all the love I could into that film - not for Brando, but for that incredible man Chaplin who invented our profession, our whole business… I still think it’s a lovely film. The critics were wrong to be so unkind to it. It is often on television and each time I see it I appreciate all the grace and elegance of it , just what you could expect from Charlie Chaplin. Maybe it’s even better on the little screen. It is an intimate film.” - Sophia Loren
Wonderful drawing of Charlie Chaplin and Paullette Goddard in “The Great Dictator”, done by renowned caricaturist Al Hirschfeld. He died in 2003 a few months short of his 100th birthday. If you love Old Hollywood then you have seen much of his work, also did numerous covers of TV Guide.
He also counted among his friends Charlie Chaplin who is considered his first patron. They met in Bali in 1932, Charlie mentions Hirschfeld in his bio and this time period but not how they met. It is a wonderful, lovely story and just how remarkable Charlie Chaplin the man could be
Here is an excerpt from: alhirschfeld.com
Hirschfeld became used to the crowds of passengers from luxury liners who would often gather around him as an audience, onlookers over the Artist’s shoulder. On one particular afternoon, Hirschfeld could feel the crowd thinning behind him as usual, but he was aware that one person still lingered to watch him work. Not wanting to be distracted by idle conversation, Hirschfeld was determined not to turn around. Hirschfeld continued to watercolor.
His fan kept watching. After what seemed to be an interminable amount of time, the man spoke: “Tell me how much money it would take for you to support yourself for one full year, so that you can continue to be an artist without worrying about money.” Hirschfeld took this question as idle chatter and fired back an un-considered answer as he continued to work. A few moments later, Hirschfeld saw a hand reaching over his right shoulder. In that hand was a piece of paper. “Take this,” the man said. The piece of paper was a check made out in the exact amount that Hirschfeld had cited. The signature read: Charles Chaplin.
It was the beginning of a life-long friendship between Hirschfeld and Chaplin.
(cartoon by Signe Wilkinson)
A fairly rare photo from my collection… Chaplin conducts the Abe Lyman Orchestra. Circa 1925.
I hate the press. I hate you especially. But the fact is we need you. We need a free press. We must have it. It’s vital. If you want to preserve – I’m very serious now – if you want to preserve democracy as we know it, you have to have a free and many times adversarial press. And without it, I am afraid that we would lose so much of our individual liberties over time. That’s how dictators get started.
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By ZACHARY WARMBRODT
Sen. Elizabeth Warren Tuesday excoriated Donald Trump’s first decisions as president-elect in a series of attacks aimed at financiers on his short list for the Treasury Department and the hiring of Steve Bannon as his White House chief strategist.
Speaking at a Wall Street Journal event in Washington, the Massachusetts Democrat criticized Trump for “hiring a bunch of lobbyists” to run his transition team and for floating “names of people who’ve run giant hedge funds … to be able to run the Treasury or people who’ve come from industry to be able to run the regulatory agencies.”
“The American people understand the revolving door,” Warren said. “They’re really sick of it.”
Warren then took aim at Bannon, the controversial Trump adviser under fire from civil rights groups and Democrats who are accusing the former Breitbart News head of having ties to white nationalism.
Bannon’s presence suggests “this is a White House that will embrace bigotry,” she said.
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Obama: I’m not responsible for Trump
By NOLAN D. MCCASKILL
President Barack Obama on Tuesday denied responsibility for the election of Donald Trump, suggesting Trump’s presidency may simply be a result of Americans’ decision to simply try something new.
“I think it’s fair to say that I was surprised by the election results, and I’ve said so. I still don’t feel responsible for what the president-elect says or does,” Obama said during a bilateral news conference alongside Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras in Athens. “But I do feel a responsibility as president of the United States to make sure that I facilitate a good transition and I present to him, as well as the American people, my best thinking, my best ideas about how you move the country forward, to speak out with respect to areas where I think the Republican Party’s wrong but to pledge to work with them on those things that I think will advance the causes of security and prosperity and justice and inclusiveness in America.”
Obama rejected direct parallels between Trump’s ascension and the rise of conservative politicians like Theresa May in the UK and Marine Le Pen in France. For one, Obama noted, May is a “fairly traditional conservative politician who’s now prime minister.”
“Those aren’t the same,” Obama said, comparing their rise with Trump’s. “And the situation in each country is different. I do think, as I said before, that history doesn’t move in a straight line. It zigs and zags and sometimes goes forward, sometimes moves back, sideways. I think at times of significant stress, people are gonna be looking for something, and they don’t always know exactly what it is that they’re looking for and they may opt for change, even if they’re not entirely confident what that change will bring.”
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Clinton concedes to Trump: ‘We owe him an open mind’
By NOLAN D. MCCASKILL
Hillary Clinton apologized to supporters Wednesday for the painful loss her campaign endured and implored them to keep “an open mind” about President-elect Donald Trump.
“This is painful and it will be for a long time,” Clinton said during her concession speech. “But I want you to remember this: Our campaign was never about one person or even one election. It was about the country we love and about building an America that’s hopeful, inclusive and big-hearted.”
Clinton added that she believes in the country “and always will,” imploring citizens to follow her lead and support Trump, their 45th president.
“We have seen that our nation is more deeply divided than we thought, but I still believe in America and I always will,” she said. “If you do, then we must accept this result and then look to the future. Donald Trump is going to be our president. We owe him an open mind and the chance to lead.”
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By KENNETH P. VOGEL
NEW YORK — A Manhattan society crowd on Thursday night turned on Donald Trump as he used his appearance at an annual roast-style fundraiser for Catholic charities to jab Hillary Clinton, seated just a few feet away, as “corrupt,” and to crack that she hates Catholics and profiteered from her foundation’s charity work in Haiti.
At several points during the white-tie dinner in the ballroom of the Waldorf Astoria hotel, Trump drew boos, and when he made his crack about Catholics, someone yelled from the crowd of 1,500 “finish.”
A night after a fiery debate between the two presidential candidates in Las Vegas, raw feelings crept into an event — the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation dinner — typically known for light-hearted political jabs.
Clinton also drew some groans with shots at Trump over his comments about women and questions about his net worth, but her routine was far more hokey and self-deprecating, and much better received.
As attendees filed out of the white-tie affair, several could be overheard remarking that Trump’s speech seemed badly off-key.
“He didn’t quite understand the audience,” said the veteran GOP operative Ed Rollins, who is running a super PAC supporting Trump. “To be funny, you have to understand the audience.”
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