He is believed to have been born on April 16, 1889, in East Street, Walworth – four days before the birth of Adolf Hitler, whom he lampooned in his classic 1940 film The Great Dictator. But, after scouring the files at Somerset House in London for his birth certificate, MI5 concluded: ‘It would seem that Chaplin was either not born in this country or that his name at birth was other than those mentioned.’ They also examined intelligence that Chaplin may have used the alias ‘Israel Thornstein’, but could find no trace under that name either. Scotland Yard’s Special Branch added to the intrigue by passing on a tip from a source who claimed the actor was born near Fontainebleau, just south of Paris. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2102325/Was-Charlie-Chaplin-Frenchman-MI5-files-reveal-born-near-Paris--Russia.html#ixzz1mblDb5qA
http://www.ednapurviance.org/chaplininfo/chaplinwives.html Chaplin's oldest daughter, Geraldine Chaplin, who grew up admiring and respecting her age-disparate parents' successful thirty-four year marriage saw his attraction to young girls differently than her half-brother and Sam Goldwyn: "He loved young girls, the younger the better. He really did. He only saw pureness and innocence and youth and beauty... he was a romantic." The actress Louise Brooks--an ex-lover from the 1920s - on the other hand, thought of him as a ually insecure man with a "Lolita obsession": a view echoed by his longtime camera man, Rollie Totheroh. Like Totheroh, Brooks remembered Charlie as "afraid of girls and... deeply convinced that he could seduce a girl only with his position as a director and starmaker."
But now a new book, Chaplin: A Life, by the renowned psychiatrist Dr Stephen Weissman claims that the real source of Chaplin's sorrow, and therefore his creative juices, was not so much the loss of his feckless father, but the terrible and hitherto untold story of his beautiful mother, Hannah. Instead of being the loving and glamorous parent Chaplin always claimed she had been, new evidence suggests that Hannah - a minor music hall star who performed under the name of Lily Harley - spent part of her youth working as a prostitute with tragic longterm consequences. For Weissman claims that she contracted syphilis - a disease not readily curable in the late 19th century - and that it triggered a harrowing descent into madness, witnessed by the young Chaplin who would never be able to forget it. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1233081/The-dark-secrets-Charlie-Chaplins-mother-fired-genius.html#ixzz1mbnIISFq
>>30 >>33 Charlie Chaplin, The greatest comic, had an interesting life and numerous relationships with teenage girls like Lita Grey whom he met when she was 12 years old. At 15 years old, she was pregnant and later they married and had two children. Although many of his relationships with the girls resulted in a divorce (4 times) or a break-off, the marriage with Oona O'Neill (whom he met when she was 17 years old) was a success, and they lived happily and had 8 children. 出典：The Hidden Wiki >History of CP >Famous Pedophiles より
