Cinema Charles Chaplin: the dark side of the tyrant, controlling, petty and hurtful genius
The concept of a star, as we know it today, emerged in 1910.
Charles Chaplin
was the first and the most important of all to the point that
he was the germ of the star system.
An unheard of fact if one takes into account that the very idiosyncrasy of this system created for advertising purposes has always been linked to the female sex, see the cases of
Theda Bara
,
Marlène Dietrich
or
Greta Garbo
.
As the French sociologist Edgar Morin (100) said, this is because women are a more mythical subject and object than men.
Chaplin is a genre in itself and, as such, endures over time.
Immortality lies in his own name, although to date it has been based on
a white lie.
Although the protagonist of
Modern Times
(1936) recorded that he had been born in London, in the documentary
Charlie Chaplin.
A Man of the World
,
his son Michael and his granddaughters
Carmen and Dolores reveal to the world the
true roots
of the master of humor.
According to this part of the family, Charles Spencer Chaplin
was not born in London
on April 16, 1889, but was born in one of the caravans of the most important
gypsy settlement
in England called Black Patch, located
on the outskirts of Birmingham.
Michael Chaplin, in 2002.GTRES
The origin of this secret lies in
a letter that the actor received
in 1971, seven years before his death, signed by a certain Jack Hill who stated that "you were born in a caravan, it was a good one. It belonged to the gypsy queen who was my Aunt. You were born in the Black Patch of Smethwick."
The queen's name was
Henty, her husband was King Esau Smith
, and that small town near Birmingham and Coventry currently has a population of almost 50,000.
Apparently, the letter was
hidden in a
sealed drawer that one of his daughters found while moving and renovating
the family mansion
in Corsier-sur-Vevey (Switzerland) into a museum to honor the figure of the celluloid star. .
They were stunned when it became known where Chaplin had been born, who did know that on his mother's side he had
a Romani origin.
However, Hannah never went into details and her son stayed with the couplet who had been born in the Walworth neighborhood, south London.
From the mid-19th century to the early 20th century, the Black Patch was a
squalid settlement
where tents and caravans were piled on top of countless wastes that carried
infectious diseases.
In the letter, Jack Hill assures that he was also born in the same place and that his mother moved back to an area of London that he did not know.
His father had left
home, a
lost alcoholic dying soon after of cirrhosis and his mother,
mentally ill,
barely earning enough to support her children, so Charles and his brother lived temporarily in
reception places.
Chaplin, as Charlot, his iconic character.GTRES
At the age of 20, Charles
crossed the Atlantic
knowing he had a gift for humor.
The
Keyston studios hired him
and a decade later he founded United Artists, together with his friends Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and David W. Griffith, a company with which they began to
manage their own interests
(commercial and image) outside the established power. for the studies.
The rest is history.
His legacy speaks for itself:
The Boy
(1921),
The Gold Rush
(1925),
City Lights
(1931),
The Great Dictator
(1940) or
Footlights
(1952), with which the king of comedy
discovered to Claire Bloom,
who at 91 is still active.
Following the film's London premiere, Chaplin
was banned from the United States
because his name was on McCarthy's Witch Hunt blacklist, so
he settled in Switzerland
with his
fourth wife, Oona O. 'Neill,
daughter of the Pulitzer Prize- and Nobel-winning playwright Eugene O'Neill, with whom she would have
eight of their 11 children.
The actor, with five of his 11 children.
Michael is third from the right.GTRES
Of all of them, the most famous is her eldest daughter,
Geraldine
(77), who has developed
most of her career in Spain
and who for a time was a couple of Carlos Saura (90), with whom she had her son Shane (48). ).
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