His parents were both theatre performers who separated shortly after his birth. Stephanie Slight traces Chaplin’s journey from embarrassed workhouse boy to Hollywood icon in records held at LMA.īorn in 1889 in Walworth, South London, Charles Spencer Chaplin lived comfortably for the first few years of his life. The compassion shown to these characters and the authenticity of these depictions can be traced to Chaplin’s own impoverished childhood in Victorian London. The film’s characters suffer poverty, illness, unemployment and live under the threat of intervention by the authorities. Found by The Tramp (played by Chaplin) the child is raised with love and care in the poverty of an American slum. His first feature-length film as a director tells the story of a boy abandoned at birth by his unmarried and desperate mother. Reflections of a Victorian childhood: Charlie Chaplin’s The KidĬharlie Chaplin's silent comedy-drama The Kid was released 100 years ago in 1921.
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