Company promotional item featuring Billy Scudder as the IBM tramp.
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Cruise ship, 1933
Photo reads: 'Young men in women and Chaplin costume. Neptune Party, Ship crossing the Ecuador Line 1933'
Kermit!
Kermit the Frog as Charlie. (The Jim Henson Studios are now housed in the previous Chaplin Studios in Hollywood.)
Monday, December 27, 2010
Chaplin crashes a wedding reception...
This Charlie is... me! (Damian Blake) hired for a wedding last October. A very lovely time, and a very lovely couple.
Saturday, December 25, 2010
Friday, December 24, 2010
Thursday, December 23, 2010
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Life as a family vaudeville act...
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Photo information reads:
Capps family at Columbia vaudeville.
Baby of 21 months (been on stage for 6 months).
Girl of 5 years (been on stage for 2 years).
Boy of 7 years (been on stage for 1 year).
Girl of 8 years (been on stage for 5 years).
Boy of 12 years (been on stage for 8 years).
Boy of 14 years (been on stage for 9 years).
Oldest boy is acrobat, contortionist, etc. All do singing and dancing acts except baby, who appears in final scene as Charlie Chaplin. They appear 3 or 4 times a day--sometimes 7 days in the week, usually coming last on program (as a feature), which means they do not leave dressing room until nearly 11 p.m. Then, in addition, the life in cheap hotels and on the road "making new towns" is very unsettling. It was very touching to see the little ones curled up back of the scenes waiting for their act and getting 40 winks or the mother nursing the baby just before it was poked out onto the stage to do his little "turn."
In spite of their stage life, their manners are good. They are quiet, well-appearing children, and the parents are kind and sympathetic. The father acts as nursemaid to the baby, and the mother dresses and changes the others and appears herself. She said: "They're never sick. It's the healthiest kind of life." The 8-year-old girl said: "I don't like it--the men in some places are so rough." There was some familiarity shown to them, but not much.
Location: Grand Rapids, Michigan
Photo from Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.
Monday, December 20, 2010
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Monday, December 13, 2010
Friday, December 10, 2010
Thursday, December 9, 2010
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Man dressed as Chaplin, circa 1915
Early costume photo. Back simply reads 'Charlie Chaplin'.
From the collection of Damian Blake
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Monday, December 6, 2010
Charlie and Claire Bloom
Claire Bloom, Chaplin's co-star in 'Limelight', with Chaplin impersonator Laura Olson.
Sunday, December 5, 2010
Friday, December 3, 2010
Robert Downey Jr. in 'Chaplin'...
...as the tramp, in a fictional recreation of Chaplin's screen debut. Chaplin actually made several shorts for Mack Sennett before appearing as the Tramp in 'Kid Auto Races at Venice' and 'Mabel's Strange Predicament'.
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Robert Downey Jr.
in 'Chaplin', with Marisa Tomei as Mabel Normand.
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Thursday, December 2, 2010
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Simon Bradbury
Bradbury as Chaplin, in the Gateway Theatre stage show 'Charlie Chaplin Goes to War' by Simon Brandbury and Dan Kamin.
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Happy Turkey Day!
The Faux Charlot will be taking a brief hiatus for Thanksgiving, returning on Monday Nov 29th.
Here's a picture of Hy Meyerowitz, who got a job impersonating Charlie Chaplin during the New York premier of City Lights in 1931. More can be read about Hy, who was the subject of the short PBS film 'Pop', by his son Joel Meyerowitz, here.
Here's a picture of Hy Meyerowitz, who got a job impersonating Charlie Chaplin during the New York premier of City Lights in 1931. More can be read about Hy, who was the subject of the short PBS film 'Pop', by his son Joel Meyerowitz, here.
Monday, November 22, 2010
Friday, November 19, 2010
Universal Studios Florida - Street Performers - 1990
Little glimpse of Charlie hitching a ride at the end.
That's a lotta Charlies!...
Impersonators surround the tribute statue in Leicester Square in London.