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The Hat, The Cane, The Moustache


August 1-26, 2013 at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe: The Hat, The Cane, The Moustache is a solo show in which a young actor explores the life and career of his idol, Charlie Chaplin.

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Clive Elkington stars in this unique and playful look at one of the world’s most famous film stars.

Explore the life and career of Charlie Chaplin through the eyes of a young actor in the moments before he goes on stage to recreate his idol. This one man show is a funny and extraordinary story of two performers, told in words, visual and physical theatre - all with a great big toothy grin, and the inspiration of a legend to draw on… With a hat, a cane and a moustache, Chaplin’s Little Tramp will come back to life right before your eyes.

For more information, see the Edinburgh Festival Fringe website. You can also check out the show’s Facebook page - Or if you tweet, follow @ChaplinEdFringe

Photos: Chaplin and Animals


For your viewing pleasure, here is another selection of photographs from the Chaplin archives. Our theme for this selection is “Chaplin and Animals”. Enjoy!

adl pub 6 On the set of A Dog’s Life (1918) © Roy Export Company Establishment. Scan courtesy Cineteca di Bologna.

cir 357 Merna Kennedy and Chaplin play with a kitten. The Circus (1928) © Roy Export S.A.S. Scan courtesy Cineteca di Bologna.

mutual 0003 Charlie Chaplin in One A.M. (1916) From the archives of Roy Export Company Establishment.

cir 313 Charlie tries blowing a pill down a horse’s throat in The Circus (1928) © Roy Export S.A.S. Scan courtesy Cineteca di Bologna.

Circus 52 Charlie as a tight-rope walker, attacked by escaped monkeys in The Circus (1928) © Roy Export S.A.S. Scan courtesy Cineteca di Bologna.

cl 58 Chaplin as a street cleaner with Anna May, famed elephant star, in City Lights (1931) © Roy Export S.A.S. Scan courtesy Cineteca di Bologna.

cir 360 On the set of The Circus (1928). For the scenes with the lions Chaplin made some 200 takes, in many of which he was actually inside the lion’s cage. © Roy Export Company Establishment. Scan courtesy Cineteca di Bologna.

gr 0023 Charles Chaplin feeds a bear on the set of The Gold Rush (1925). © Roy Export Company Establishment. Scan courtesy Cineteca di Bologna.

pd 0007 A cat steals a sausage from the table in Pay Day (1922) © Roy Export S.A.S. Scan courtesy Cineteca di Bologna.

You can also check out our previous photo archive posts:
February 28th, 2013: A selection of Chaplin photographs
March 29th, 2013: From the Chaplin archives

124 years ago today...


i{1663-filename-big} Charles Spencer Chaplin was born in London, England, on April 16th, 1889!

From the Chaplin Archives


Further to our popular first post of photographs from the Chaplin archives, here is our second selection. Enjoy and please share this post!

i{1658-filename-big} Charlie on the set of The Kid, circa 1920. Copyright © Roy Export Company Establishment

i{1657-filename-big} Paulette Goddard and Chaplin on the set of Modern Times, circa 1935. Copyright © Roy Export Company Establishment. Scan Courtesy Cineteca di Bologna

i{1647-filename-big} Paulette Goddard and Chaplin, Beverly Hills, circa 1940. Copyright © Roy Export Company Establishment. Scan Courtesy Cineteca di Bologna

i{1648-filename-big} Filming The Great Dictator, circa 1939. In Chaplin: His Life and Art, David Robinson writes, “Reginald Gardiner suffered much more than Chaplin from the experience of being strapped upside down, and only managed his lines and air of insouciance with great effort.” Copyright © Roy Export Company Establishment. Scan Courtesy Cineteca di Bologna

i{1651-filename-big} Chaplin and Martha Raye, who jokingly called each other “Chuck” and “Maggie” while working on Monsieur Verdoux in 1946. Copyright © Roy Export Company Establishment. Scan Courtesy Cineteca di Bologna

i{1650-filename-big} On the set of City Lights, circa 1930. Copyright © Roy Export Company Establishment. Scan Courtesy Cineteca di Bologna

i{1655-filename-big} Charlie Chaplin and Helen Keller meet on the set of Sunnyside, 1919. Copyright © Roy Export Company Establishment

i{1656-filename-big} Chaplin and the famous Max Linder shake hands on the set of The Adventurer, circa 1917. From the archives of Roy Export Company Establishment. Scan Courtesy Cineteca di Bologna

Chaplin Archives in Bologna


The Cinematheque of Bologna has taken nearly 8 years to accomplish the colossal task of scanning and indexing all Chaplin’s Archives - images, scripts, manuscripts, letters and thousands of documents such as daily production reports, drawings, press-clippings, exhibitor books, programmes…

Fantastic resource for historians, film academics, biographers, journalists etc. who can apply for a full or partial access to this material in the context of a specific project.

Chaplin fans may also have a glimpse at it here : www.charliechaplinarchive.org

Chaplin Glam


Gilmar launched the Fall/Winter 2012-2013 Iceberg men collection during the Milan Fashion week last Monday with a licence for Chaplin T shirts.

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