Contents

Introduction by Geraldine Chaplin

1.   A Family Romance

2.   Family Secrets

3.   Improvisations

4.   The Invulnerable Child

5.   “Life Is a Tragedy … in Close-up, but a Comedy in Long Shot”

6.   Child Prodigy

7.   Woman in the Window

8.   An Actor’s Life for Me

9.   Clowning Around

10.   Basic Training

11.   The Greenhorn and the Guv’nor

12.   The Immigrant

13.   Let’s Go to the Movies

14.   Birth of a Tramp

15.   The Moon Shines Bright on Charlie Chaplin

16.   What Happened Next

Afterword: Falsehoods or False Memories: Where’s Charlie?

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index