
Chaplin Reference Images
Reproduced at full size (most are cropped or downsized when used to illustrate my essays); boldface indicates images which are not reproduced in, or accessible from, the essays.
Photos
Chaplin dressed as a drunk for a 1910 Karno stage performance.
A young Chaplin, having just arrived in Hollywood in 1913.
Chaplin in 1914, his first year on the screen.
From Making a Living. Chaplin makes his first appearance in films as a villain, one episode prior to the Tramp's debut.
From Kid's Auto Race. Uncomfortable Charlie from his first appearance.
Chaplin poses with a Charlie doll, circa 1915.
From Dough and Dynamite. Charlie with Mabel Normand.
Picture taken for an Essanay licensed post card, 1915.
From The Tramp.
From The Floorwalker. Charlie dances with joy.
From The Immigrant. Charlie, a born romantic, giving Edna Purviance a loving gaze.
From The Adventurer. Charlie impersonates nobility to woo Edna.
Chaplin in 1918.
From Shoulder Arms.
From Shoulder Arms. A deleted scene prefigures The Kid.
From The Kid. Quality time for the Tramp and Jackie Coogan.
Lita Grey.
From The Gold Rush. The more romantic ending excised in 1942 due to image concerns.
Chaplin in 1925.
The Tramp is dejected in a publicity still from the late 1920s . . .
. . . and in this one he looks even worse off.
From The Circus. Charlie is threatened by the king of beasts.
From The Circus. Charlie struggles to be funny as monkeys abuse him.
From City Lights. Chaplin dressed as Charlie while on the site.
From City Lights. Charlie discovers that the life of a millionaire isn't all roses.
From City Lights. Nervous Charlie tries to appeal to the formerly-blind flower girl in the film's final scene.
Chaplin relaxes during a European vacation to promote City Lights.
Pola Negri.
Chaplin dances with Paulette Goddard, circa 1936.
From Modern Times. Charlie feeds a man stuck up to his neck in a huge machine.
From Modern Times. Charlie is swallowed by factory machinery.
From Modern Times. Charlie goes crazy and prepares to tighten the bolts on everything.
From Modern Times. Charlie and the Gamin take off their shoes and get back to nature.
From Modern Times. Charlie tries to flag down a truck, but is mistaken for a leftist protestor.
Chaplin in 1940.
From The Great Dictator.Charlie and Hannah (Paulette Goddard) in the ghetto.
From The Great Dictator. Adenoid Hynkel, the Phooey of Ptomania.
Chaplin gets fingerprinted by Red-baiters of the 1940s.
A Charlie impersonator advertises IBM computers, circa 1984.
Comics and Editorial Cartoons
Charlie claimed that Weary Willie and Tired Tim were the comic figures who inspired his tramp character.
An episode of Casey's Court, a comic strip that inspired one of Chaplin's early performances.
Chaplin seems bemused at the many raffish ur-Charlies that surround him.
Charlie Chaplin had his own comic strip in the British comic The Funny Wonder, drawn by master cartoonist Bert Brown.
Chaplin mania indicated by many would-be imitators of his style. From before 1920.
You too could look like Charlie Chaplin if you followed instructions in this fanzine, c. 1920.
From circa 1921, "Charlie and the Kid" shows Mildred getting the last laugh on Chaplin.
From 1927, "The Gold Rush" shows Charlie escaping with alimony payments: an anti-Chaplin editorial cartoon from the Lita Grey divorce.
One editorialist's correct prediction that the icon Charlie would avoid being tarnished by Lita Grey's charges.
Circa 1935, Charlie and Hitler are compared by a curious cartoonist.
Miscellany
An announcement of Charles Chaplin's birth.
Keystone announces some of Chaplin's first films.
An announcement for the 1970s revival of some Chaplin films.

Text copyright (C)1995 by David A. Gerstein