Remember Charlie? — the milk-white
skin, the trademark mini-mustache, the walk so like that of a penguin in a terrible hurry? From His Prehistoric Past to Modern Times, from The Tramp to The Great Dictator, Charlie Chaplin kept America rolling in the aisles as the preeminent silent film comedian in the burgeoning movie industry of the early 1900s.
Now Jerry Epstein takes us on a fascinating trip back to the golden age of the silver screen, in a retrospective personal album of the most famous member of the Keystone Kops troupe. With over 300 photographs collected from family albums and archives, ReMemBERING CHarLIe is an intimate look at Chaplin, by a man who was his friend and colleague for over thirty years.
Few were close to the semireclusive star. Few knew the details behind the FBI's and Un-Ameri-can Activities Committee's harassing of him, and how it affected him. Few had the glimpses Epstein did of the actor in repose - his fears, his enthusiasm, his hopes. Remembering Charlie both delves in Chaplin's more private world and gives precise descriptions of his painstakingly created comic sequences, including the famous music hall routine with Buster Keaton in Limelight, on of the films on which Chaplin and Epstein collarorated.