The Socialist Challenge

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The Socialist Challenge

• Liberal Arts Humanities

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Mark Twain

• "I bring you the stately matron named
  Christendom, returning bedraggled, besmirched,
  and dishonored from pirate raids in Kiao-Chou,
  Manchuria, South Africa, and the Philippines,
  with her soul full of meanness, her pocket full
  of boodle, and her mouth full of pious
  hypocrisies."

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Triangle Shirtwaist Tragedy
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Mother Jones
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Wobblies
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Joe Hill Organizer Song Writer
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Socialist Authors

• Upton Sinclair, The Jungle
• Jack London, People of the Abyss
• Theodore Dreiser, An American Tragedy
• Frank Norris, The Octopus A California Story

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Charlie Chaplin
(April 16, 1889 -- December 25, 1977)
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April 16, 1889 Born East Lane, Walworth
(London), to music hall performers Charles and
Hannah Chaplin.
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Hannah Charles Senior

• 1884 Hannah leaves for South Africa with con man
  Sydney Hawkes who lures her there under false
  pretenses by posing as a wealthy aristocrat and
  promising to marry her.
• 1885 19-year-old Hannah returns back to England
  from South Africa -- unwed and six months
  pregnant -- Charlie's father married her and
  adopted the unborn child (Sydney) as his own
• 1889 Charlie Chaplin is born
• 1890 Hannah leaves with Leo Dryden, who also
  impregnates and discards her (but Dryden keeps or
  steals their baby).
• 1894 Charlies first performance is as last
  minute substitute for ailing mother. By this
  time Charles Senior has permanently left family
• Hannah barely manages with two children Charles
  and Sidney

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June 1896 Young Charles and brother Sydney, with
their mother, enter Lambeth Workhouse For the Poor
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1898 Hannah has a mental breakdown. Charles and
Sydney live for a time with Charles Sr. and his
mistress.
From here on out Charlie and Sydney are fending
for themselves working in Music Hall and Variety
Acts
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May 13, 1901 Charles Sr. dies. Complications of
alcoholism
1901 Hannah enters Cane Hill Asylum she never
will permanently recover her sanity (probable
cause of insanity is syphilis
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Karno Years

• 1903 Chaplin appears for the first time as Billy
  in Sherlock Holmes. He will play the part in
  various productions into 1906.
• 1906 Chaplin stars in the variety show Casey's
  Court Circus.
• 1907 Chaplin begins performing for the Karno
  Troupe, joining his brother Sydney, who is
  largely responsible for Charles's placement.
• September 1910 Chaplin leaves with a Karno
  Troupe for a tour of the United States and
  Canada.
• October 3, 1910 He opens in the Karno production
  The Wow Wows at the Colonial Theatre in New York
  City.
• Spring 1912 Chaplin returns to England with the
  Karno Troupe.
• October 1912 Chaplin leaves with the Karno
  Troupe for a second tour of the U.S. and Canada.

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Mack Sennet Keystone (1914)

• Making a Living (1 reel), Kid Auto Races at
  Venice (split reel) , Mabel's Strange Predicament
  (1 reel) , Between Showers (1 reel) , A Film
  Johnnie (1 reel) , Tango Tangles (1 reel) , His
  Favorite Pastime (1 reel) , Cruel, Cruel Love (1
  reel) , The Star Boarder (1 reel) , Mabel at the
  Wheel (2 reels) , Twenty Minutes of Love (1 reel)
  , Caught in a Cabaret (2 reels) , Caught in the
  Rain (1 reel) , A Busy Day (split reel) , The
  Fatal Mallet (1 reel) , Her Friend the Bandit (1
  reel) , The Knockout (2 reels) , Mabel's Busy Day
  (1 reel) , Mabel's Married Life (1 reel) ,
  Laughing Gas (1 reel) , The Property Man (2
  reels) , The Face on the Bar-room Floor (1 reel)
  , Recreation (split reel) , The Masquerader (1
  reel) , His New Profession (1 reel) , The
  Rounders (1 reel) , The New Janitor (1 reel) ,
  Those Love Pangs (1 reel) , Dough and Dynamite (2
  reels) , Gentlemen of Nerve (1 reel) , His
  Musical Career (1 reel) , His Trysting Place (2
  reels) , Tillie's Punctured Romance (6 reels) ,
  Getting Acquainted (1 reel) , His Prehistoric
  Past (2 reels)

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Chaplins first film Making A Living (1914)
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First Appearance of The Little Tramp 1914 in
Kid Auto Races at Venice
Costume made up on the spot from borrowed pieces
from other actors and their relatives
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November 1914 He signs a contract with Essanay
Films, where he will make fourteen films in the
next year.

• Triple Trouble (2 reels) (1918), Carmen) (4
  reels) (1916), Police (2 reels) (1916), His New
  Job (2 reels) (1915), A Night Out (2 reels)
  (1915), The Champion (2 reels) (1915), In The
  Park (1915),The Jitney Elopement (2 reels)
  (1915), The Tramp (2 reels) (1915),By the Sea
  (1915), Work (2 reels) (1915), A Woman (2 reels)
  (1915), The Bank (2 reels) (1915), Shanghaied (2
  reels) (1915), A Night in the Show (2 reels)
  (1915)

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Essanay Studio -- The Tramp (2 reels) (1915),
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February 27, 1916 Chaplin signs contract with
Mutual Films, where he will make twelve
celebrated short subjects in 1916 and part of
1917.
Easy Street (2 reels) (1917), The Cure (2 reels)
(1917) , The Immigrant (2 reels), The Adventurer
(2 reels) (1917) , The Floorwalker (2 reels)
(1916) ,The Fireman (2 reels) (1916), The
Vagabond (2 reels) (1916), One A.M. (2 reels)
(1916) , The Count (2 reels) (1916), The Pawnshop
(2 reels) (1916), Behind the Screen (2 reels)
(1916), The Rink (2 reels) (1916)
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The Vagabond (2 reels) (1916) Chaplins heroine
echoes his mothers Travellers background many
of his heroines reflect his mother
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June 7, 1917 Chaplin signs contract with First
National, for which he will do eight films.

• The Pilgrim (4 reels) (1923)
• Pay Day (2 reels) (1922)
• The Kid (6 reels) (1920) FIRST FULL LENGTH
• The Idle Class (2 reels) (1920)
• Sunnyside (3 reels) (1919)
• A Day's Pleasure (2 reels) (1919)
• A Dog's Life (3 reels) (1918)
• Shoulder Arms (3 reels) (1918)
• The Bond (split reel) (1918)

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The Kid (6 reels) (1920) Chaplins first
directing credit
Chaplin's first full-length movie, and one of his
best -- the Tramp befriends an orphaned child,
raises him as only the Tramp could, and then
struggles to keep the boy when circumstances
threaten to tear them apart.
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The Kid (6 reels) (1920)
FINAL SCENE FROM THE FILM
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United Artists
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United Artists

• 1919 With Douglas Fairbanks, D. W. Griffith, and
  Mary Pickford founds United Artists.
• All of his remaining films will be made
  independently.

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Hannah Chaplin

• 1921 Chaplin provides his mother with a
  California home.
• August 28, 1928 Hannah Chaplin dies.

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Chaplins Wives
Mildred Harris married October 23, 1918 divorced
April 4, 1921.Mildred was 16 Charlie was 28.
Lita Grey married November 26, 1924 divorced
on August 25, 1927. Lita was 16. Charlie was 35.
Paulette Goddard married near Japan and China
in 1936, but the legal papers were ever made
public divorced in June of 1942. Paulette was
19. Charlie was 44. Oona ONeill married June
16, 1943 Oona died September 27. Oona was 18.
Charlie was 54.
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A Woman of Paris (1923)

• A film written and directed by Charlie Chaplin,
  designed to launch Edna Purviance into a serious
  acting career. A good film, although not a
  comedy.

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The Gold Rush (1925)

• A lone prospector (Charlie Chaplin's Tramp)
  ventures into Alaska looking for gold. He gets
  mixed up with some burly characters and falls in
  love with the beautiful Georgia. He tries to win
  her heart with his singular charm.

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The Gold Rush (1925)
April 18, 1942 The Gold Rush is reissued with
soundtrack and some very short deletions.
Chaplin's spoken narration replaces titles.
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The Circus (1928)

• At the midway of a failing circus, The Little
  Tramp falls into a series of comic routines that
  end when, pursued by a cop, he bursts into the
  tent's center ring and wows the audience. The
  circus owner auditions The Little Tramp as a
  clown but discovers he is only funny when he
  isn't trying. He tricks The Little Tramp into
  joining the circus as a prop man who wreaks havoc
  with whatever he does and who unknowingly becomes
  the star of the show.

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The Circus (1928)
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City Lights (1931)

• Charlie Chaplin's Tramp befriends a blind flower
  girl, trying to raise the money for the operation
  to restore her sight. One of Chaplin's best
  films.

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City Lights (1931)
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Modern Times (1936)

• Charlie Chaplin's legendary satire of the
  mechanized world. As a factory worker driven
  bonkers by the soulless momentum of work, Chaplin
  executes a series of slapstick routines around
  machines, including a memorable encounter with an
  automatic feeding apparatus, as well as creating
  a touching relationship between the Tramp and a
  street gamine played by Paulette Goddard.

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Modern Times (1936)
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The Great Dictator (1940)

• In Chaplin's classic satire on Nazi Germany,
  dictator Adenoid Hynkel has a double -- a poor
  Jewish barber -- who one day is mistaken for
  Hynkel.

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The Great Dictator (1940)
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The Great Dictator (1940)
Famous Globe Ballet
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Political Troubles

• May 1942 Chaplin, as a last-minute substitute
  for former ambassador to the Soviet Union Joseph
  E. Davies, gives a Second Front speech at an
  American Committee for Russian War Relief rally
  in San Francisco.
• July 22, 1942 Gives Second Front speech, via
  telephone, to a Madison Square Garden rally
  sponsored by the CIO.
• December 1942 The Joan Barry scandals begin,
  with damaging new twists periodically occurring
  through the spring of 1945.
• April 12, 1947 Chaplin is the victim of a
  witch-hunting press conference, save for support
  of James Agee.
• September 1952 Chaplin and family leave New York
  by ship, bound for Europe. While at sea, Chaplin,
  still a British subject, has his U.S. reentry
  permit cancelled. January 1953 Chaplin purchases
  an estate, the Manoir de Ban, in the village of
  Corsair in Switzerland. This will be his last
  home.

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Monsieur Verdoux (1947)

• This blistering black comedy was way ahead of its
  time. Chaplin plays Henri Verdoux (who assumes a
  number of identities), a civilized monster who
  marries wealthy women, then murders them and
  collects their money to support his real family.

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Limelight (1953)

• The story of a once-great stage comedian, who's
  career has failed and has become an alcholic, who
  saves the life of a despondent ballerina from a
  suicide attempt. The film is a juxtaposition of
  these two personalities, one who rallies goes
  onward, the other who falls further.

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Limelight (1953)
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A King in New York (1957)

• The story is about an overthrown monarch who
  arrives in New York to find that his prime
  minister has absconded with all his funds.
  Running up massive bills in his hotel, he is
  persuaded to make television commercials.
  Meanwhile, the monarch meets a precocious lad who
  is being harassed by government agents to betray
  his parents. Frustrated by American society, he
  leaves the country, but not before he passes on
  to the young boy the hope for a better future.

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A King in New York (1957)
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A Countess from Hong Kong (1967)

• Marlon Brando plays an American millionaire
  leaving Hong Kong to assume an ambassadorship. He
  discovers Sophia Loren -- playing a daughter of
  Russian aristocrats and a former gangster moll --
  concealed in his closet on board the outbound
  ship, hoping to gain passage to the States. A
  unique Charlie Chaplin film in that Chaplin plays
  no role (although he does have a cameo
  appearance)

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Final Triumphs

• 1952 Limelight makes the New York Times annual
  "Ten Best" list.
• March 1953 The Foreign Language Press Film
  Critics poll selects Limelight as its best film.
• April 10, 1972 Chaplin is awarded a special
  honorary Oscar "for the incalculable effect he
  has had in making motion pictures the art form of
  this century.
• September 3, 1972 The Venice Film Festival
  awards Chaplin its Golden Lion statuette.
• March 4, 1975 Chaplin is knighted by Elizabeth
  11, Queen of England.
• December 25, 1977 Chaplin dies at his estate in
  Switzerland.
• April 16, 1981 On what would have been Chaplin's
  ninety-second birthday, a larger-than-life statue
  of the comedian as Charlie is unveiled in
  London's Leicester Square, the heartland of the
  capital's cinemas. The statue stands just a few
  yards from one of William Shakespeare.

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CHARLIE CHAPLIN
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