The young Charlie spent time in workhouses ... where, in 1914, Chaplin began appearing in and soon directing short films. Over the next few years, the comic cinematic exploits of the Tramp character ...

Charlie Chaplin was, for much of his Hollywood career, under the watchfully suspicious eye of closet queen and secretive cross-dresser, J Edgar Hoover. That’s among the many fascinating takeaways from ...

Charlie Chaplin's Limelight opened on October 23, 1952, launching what would become one of the strangest Oscar stories in ...