Sir Charlie Chaplin - The Funniest Man

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See him? That little tramp twitching a postage stamp of a mustache, politely lifting his bowler hat, & leaning on a bamboo cane with the confidence of a gentleman? A slapstick comedian, he blazed forth as the brightest movie star in the Hollywood heavens. Everyone knew Charlie? Charlie Chaplin. When he was five years old he was pulled onstage for the first time, & he didn't step off again for almost three-quarters of a century. Escaping the London slums of his tragic childhood, he took Hollywood like a conquistador with a Cockney accent. With his gift for pantomime in films that had not yet acquired vocal cords, he was soon rubbing elbows with royalty & dining on gold plates in his own Beverly Hills mansion. He was the most famous man on earth?and he was regarded as the funniest. & Still is.... He comes to life in these pages. It's an astonishing rags-to-riches saga of an irrepressible kid whose childhood was dealt from the bottom of the deck. Abundantly illustrated.