Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin Jr. was an English comic actor, filmmaker, singer, film editor and composer who rose to fame in the era of silent film. He became a worldwide icon through his screen person
Seven-year-old Chaplin (centre, head slightly cocked) at the Central London District School for paupers, 1897
A teenage Chaplin in the play Sherlock Holmes
Advertisement from Chaplin's American tour with the Fred Karno comedy company, 1913
Paulette Goddard was an American actress and socialite. She was a prominent leading actress during the Golden Age of Hollywood.
Charlie Chaplin
…conscious of an extreme loneliness". He briefly considered retiring and moving to China. Chaplin's loneliness was relieved when he met 21-year-old actress Paulette Goddard in July 1932, and the pair began a relationship. He was not ready to commit to a film, however, and focused on writing a serial about his travels…
Goddard in a studio publicity still for Modern Times (1936)
Douglass Montgomery, Bob Hope, Goddard and John Beal in The Cat and the Canary (1939)
So Proudly We Hail! (1943)