Sir Charles “Charlie” Spencer Chaplin (1889-1977) lived a tragic life. He was essentially abandoned by his parents as a child. When he grew up, he married four different women who were each much younger than Chaplin. He sired no less than eleven different children (many of whom he apparently treated poorly) and he entertained a long list of romantic affairs. Chaplin became a sympathetic socialist/communist despite being a wealthy millionaire and, as punishment for his political leanings, he was ultimately exiled from the U.S. and forced to live in Switzerland for the remainder of his life, returning to the U.S. only once in 1972 to accept an honorary Oscar.
Charlie Chaplin’s life was one of the greatest tales of rags to riches. Almost as if mirroring a Horatio Alger novel, Chaplin was born in the rowdy, impoverished region of South London on the cusp of collapsing Victorian society. South…
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