Charlie Chaplin

harles Spencer Chaplin born April 16, 1889 in London England was first recognized in public as a comedian in January 1894. With his first music hall performance, he was an unplanned substitute for his mother. Everyone in the audience loved him and threw their money onto the stage. Charlie was twelve when his father died on May 9th, 1901 of alcoholism at the age of thirty-seven. “After the death of her husband, Charlie's mother, became a chronically psychotic woman …

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