City Lights was released in 1931, one of the films that he wrote, directed, and starred in. It is currently #70 in the Internet Movie's Database of.its top 250 movies, 78 years after Chaplin made it.
Currently I am reading Charlie Chaplin's 1964 My Autobiography. His life was full of interesting people and surprising turns, a man who revolutionized the early and emerging American film industry of his time. In the book, he shares his thoughts on acting, writing, directing, movie-making, humor, working with people, and his work ethics. He also remembers and recounts the lives of the people, ordinary and great, that he chanced to meet, and subsequent events of their lives as well as his life,
The original proposal to knight Charles Chaplin was made in 1931, but was postponed for nearly 25 years because of international controversy in his life, but eventually he became Sir Charles Chaplin. He was a man with the precious gift of being able to make audiences laugh, a precious experience for sometimes stress-fulled people then and now..
