Academy Award
Agee, James
Albert Edward, Prince of Wales,
alcoholism
Aldershot Canteen
America First Committee
American Mutoscope and Biograph Company
Americans, fast pace of
Anderson, “Broncho Billy,”
Anderson, Harry, 290n13
Anderson, Sherwood
antiwar films
anxiety of influence
Arbuckle, Roscoe “Fatty,”
Artful Dodger 304n14
artistic control
ashtray kick
ass-kicking
asthma
audience
of early motion pictures,
engagement with
fear of
feedback from
intimacy with
in music halls
reactions of
separation between performer
and
author-character relationship,
autobiographical material
in City Lights
as inspiration
and passim
awards and honors
Bagehot, Walter
Bank, The (film)
Bauman, Charlie
Beauharnais, Josephine de
Benchley, Robert
Bercovici, Konrad
Bernhardt, Sarah
Binks, “Rummy,”
Biograph. See American Mutoscope
and Biograph Company
Bioscope (film)
Birth of a Nation (film)
Blackmore’s Theatrical Agency
Bloom, Harold
Bodie, Walford
Bonaparte, Napoleon
Booth, Charles
borrowed material
box-office figures
bread routines,
British music halls. See music halls
Brooks, Louise
Brummel, Beau
Buffalo Bill
Burke, Thomas
Burlington Arcade
“Burlington Bertie,”
“Burlington Bertie from Bow,”
Calvero the clown ,
Campbell, Eric
Cane Hill Lunatic Asylum,
cane tricks
Carney, George, 290n13
Casey’s Court Circus (play)
Caught in the Rain (film)
Champion, The (film)
Chaplin, Charlie
appeal,
artistic control by
artistic influences
autobiographies. See Charlie
Chaplin’s Own Story; My
Autobiography
awards and honors
box-office figures
as child performer
first performance
Christmas Day depressions
death
early romances
earnings
exile from United States
failures,
fame
film career: adjustment to
medium, beginnings,
development of cinematic
style at Essanay,
initial failure
instant fame
at Keystone
see also box-office
immigration to United States
improvisation skills
with Karno troupe
legacy
management style, conflictavoidance,
mimicry skills
in music halls
personal hygiene
photographic memory
politics: object of attacks
sentimental
radicalism see also
FBI file
public reaction to
reading: disability
favorite authors,
reading
program
Sennett and
as stand-up comic
temperament,
theater career
womanizing,
work ethic
Chaplin, Charlie, Jr. (son)
Chaplin, Charlie, Sr. (father)
alcoholism
career
child support payments
conflicting descriptions,
death
as inspiration
as Napoleon figure
in New York
relationship with Hannah,
relationship with Charlie,
remembered by Charlie
Chaplin, Geraldine (daughter)
Chaplin, Hannah Hill (mother)
ambition,
artistic influence of,
career
Charlie Sr. and,
creative imagination
death,
downfall
hospitalizations
improvisation skills
inspirations for
mental illness
migraine attacks,
mimicry skills,
as mother
relationships
religious faith
remembered by Charlie
reunions with Charlie
sense of humor
syphilis
teaching of acting to sons,
Chaplin, Lita Grey (second wife),
Chaplin, Louise (stepmother)
Chaplin, Oona O’Neill (fourth wife)
Chaplin, Spencer (uncle)
Chaplin, Sydney (brother)
acting career
childhood
closeness with Charlie
as guardian,
on his father
with Karno troupe
marriage
“Chaplinesque” (Crane)
Chaplin Film Studio
character props,
Charles II
Charlie Chaplin’s Own Story (Chaplin),
Cherrill, Virginia
Chester Street
childhood fantasies/memories,
Christ Church,
Churchill, Winston
Circus, The (film)
City Lights (film)
close-ups
Cockney speech and culture
Cody, William F. “Buffalo Bill,”
Cold War
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor,
Collier, Constance
Collins, Sam
Collins’s Music Hall
comedy
asides
bawdiness
chases
delivery
drunks
imagination
See also improvisation; physical
comedy; “rule of three”; slapstick; technique; timing
Communist Party
Conklin, Chester
Coogan, Jackie,
Cooke, Alistair,
coping mechanisms
corporal punishment
Crane, Hart
creative genius
creative imagination
creativity, loss-restitution
hypothesis of
Crocker, Harry
Crystal Hall
“Dance of the Rolls,”
Death of Columbine, The (ballet)
deserving poor
Dickens, Charles
Disney, Walt
Dog’s Life, A (film)
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
Dough and Dynamite (film)
dream scenes
Dreiser, Theodore
Dressler, Marie
Dryden, Leo
Dryden, Wheeler (half brother),
Duchamp, Marcel
Duke of York’s Theatre
East End
Easy Street (film),
Edendale, California
Edison Studio
Edward VII. See also
Albert Edward
Eight Lancashire Lads
Eliot, T. S.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Empire Theatre
Epstein, Jerry
Era
Essanay Films
ethnic stereotypes
eyes, sad, in comedy
Face on the Barroom Floor, The
(film),
false memories
fans, mob behavior by
Faulkner, William
FBI file
Fields, Phoebe
Fields, W. C.,
film industry
beginnings of
Nickelodeon Era
Film Johnnie, A (film)
filmmaking techniques
flashback
flea circus gag
Football Match, The (play),
Footlights (Chaplin)
foreshortening
Foresters
Foster, William Z.
fourth wall,
Fred’s Fun Factory
Freud, Sigmund
gags. See ashtray kick; asskicking;
bread routines; cane
tricks; flea circus; sight gags;
starvation gags; transformation
gags
Gardner, Howard
Geduld, Harry
George Augustus Frederick,
Prince Regent
Ghana
Gilbert, Minnie (Mrs. Sydney Chaplin)
Gillette, William
Gold Rush (film)
Grand Illusion (film)
Great Depression
Great Dictator, The (film)
Great Train Robbery, The (film)
Great Vance. See Vance, Alfred
Griffith, D. W.
Gwyn, Nell,
Hall, Danny
Hanwell School for Orphans and
Destitute Children
Harley, Lily. See Chaplin,
Hannah Hill (mother)
Hawkes, Sydney
Hindrum, Captain
His Favorite Pastime (film)
His New Job (film)
His Prehistoric Past (film)
His Trysting Place (film)
Hitler, Adolf,
Honri, Percy
Hoover, Herbert
Hoover, J. Edgar
Hopper, Hedda
House Un-American Activities
Committee (HUAC)
humor
as coping mechanism
early-twentieth-century
element of surprise in,
raw material for
See also comedy
IBM,
Idle Class, The (film)
Immigrant, The (film)
impersonations
of Dr. Bodie
of women
improvisation,
by Charlie Chaplin
by Hannah Chaplin
inanimate objects
Industrial Revolution
invulnerables
Irving, Henry
Jackson, William
Jewish comedians
Jewishness, putative, of Chaplin,
Jim, A Romance of Cockayne (play)
Jimmy the Fearless (play)
jokes, psychology of
Joyce, James
Karno, Fred
Karno troupe
Keaton, Buster
Kelly, Hetty
Kendal, Madge
Kennington
Kerr, Walter
Kessel, Adam
Keystone comedy films
inspirations for
popularity of Chaplin’s
tempo
trademarks
Keystone Film Studio
and Chaplin: beginnings
difficulties, filmmaking
learned at,
films made at
production methods
See also Edendale; Keystone
comedy films; Sennett,
Mack, as Keystone producer
Keystone Kops
Kick In (play)
Kid Auto Races at Venice (film),
Kid, The (film)
Kitchen, Fred, ,
Knockout, The (film)
Laemmle, Carl
Lambeth Infirmary ,
Lambeth Walk
Lancashire clog dancing
Lancashire Lads. See Eight
Lancashire Lads
Landru, Henri
Lane, Rose Wilder
Langtry, Lillie
Laughing Gas (film)
Laurel, Stan,
Lehrman, Henry “Pathé, ”
Lenin, Vladimir
Leno, Dan
Lester, Eva
Leybourne, George
Limelight (film)
lions comiques
Little Fellow. See Little Tramp
Little Tich. See Relph, Harry
Little Tramp
ashtray kick
ass-kicking by,
audience identification with,
Little Tramp (continued)
bittersweetness
in City Lights
comic asides
creation
crude humor
drunken shuffles,
in A Film Johnnie
industriousness
inspirations for
as international icon
as lover
mannerisms
popularity
Lloyd, Marie
Loew, Marcus
London, Jack
loss-restitution hypothesis
low comedy
Mabel at the Wheel (film),
Mabel’s Married Life (film),
MacDermott, G. H., 290n13
Mace, Fred
Making a Living (film)
male impersonators
Mann Act
Marceau, Marcel
Martin, Frederick, 301n32
Marx, Groucho
Masquerader, The (film)
memory falsification
Meryman, Richard
Methley Street
method acting,
Meyer, F. B.
Meyerhold, Vsevolod
Mickey Mouse
mime. See pantomime
mimicry,
“Miner’s Dream of Home, The”
(Dryden)
Modern Times (film)
moes,
“Moon Shines Bright on Charlie
Chaplin, The,”
motion pictures
early contempt for
early techniques
as escape
during World War I
See also film industry
multiple intelligences
Mumming Birds (play)
Mundella Committee
Murray, Will,
music, use of, in films
music halls
Charlie’s career in
Charlie Sr.’s career in
Hannah’s career in
performers in
Sydney’s career in
music hall songs, inspirations from,
My Autobiography (Chaplin)
Napoleon. See Bonaparte,
Napoleon
Nazis
New York
Nichols, George “Pop,”
Nickelodeon Era
Night at the Show, A (film),
Night in an English Music Hall, A
(play),
Nixon, Richard
nonverbal acting skills
Normand, Mabel
Old Curiosity Shop, The (Dickens),
Oliver Twist (Dickens),
One A.M. (film)
Oxford Music Hall
Oxford University
pantomime
parallel editing,
Pawnshop, The (film)
Pay Day (film)
Pegler, Westbrook
People of the Abyss (London)
performance anxiety
physical comedy
poorhouse, Lambeth
Poor Laws
Porter, Edwin
Power, Nellie
Pownall Terrace ,
presentational acting
Prince of Wales. See Albert
Edward
Professor, The (film)
proletarian theater arts
Property Man, The (film)
psychobiography
psychology of jokes
radicalism. See sentimental
radicalism
Redmond, Granville
Reeves, Alf
Relph, Harry
Renoir, Jean
representational acting
rescue fantasies
Rickards, Harry, 290n13
Robinson, David ,
Rogers, Will,
Romantic poets
Rounders, The (film)
“rule of three,”
“Sam Hall” (ballad)
Saunders, Joe
“screen memories, ”
self-myths
self-protection devices
“Self-Reliance” (Emerson),
Sennett, Mack
Chaplin and
inspiration of
as Keystone producer
sentimentality,
sentimental radicalism
seriocomic counterpoint,
Shamus O’Brien (play),
Shaw, George Bernard
Sherlock Holmes (play)
Shields, Ella,
Shoulder Arms (film)
silent films
context of
filming techniques
use of music in
Skating (play)
slapstick
of Karno troupes
origins
techniques
social issues
social underdogs
South Africa
Soviet Union
stage fright,
starvation gags
Sterling, Ford ,
Stevens, Alfred Peck. See Vance,
Alfred
stock characters,
street singers
Sunnyside (film)
surprise, element of
Swain, Mack
swells
switch-back
syphilis
tabes dorsalis
Tango Tangles (film)
technique: acting
performance
slapstick
see also fourth wall
Third Reich
Tilley, Vesta
timing, comic
Totheroh, Rollie
tramp character. See Little Tramp
Tramp, The (film)
transformation gags,
Tree, Herbert Beerbohm
Tully, Jim
Twelve Just Men (play)
United States
exile from
fast pace of
immigration to
touring in
Vagabond, The (film)
Vance, Alfred (“the Great Vance”),
Vance, Jeffrey
Visentini, Tommaso
Weldon, Harry
West End
Wettach, Adrian
Wilder, Laura Ingalls
Williams, Bransby
Wilson, Woodrow
Winfrey, Oprah
wistfulness
Woollcott, Alexander
Wordsworth, William
Work (film)
workhouse
working-class actors
World War I
World War II
Wow Wows, The (play)
Ziegfeld girls,