Tramp: The Life of Charlie Chaplin

Joyce Milton

Jul 2014 · Open Road Media

About this ebook

Charlie Chaplin made an amazing seventy-one films by the time he was only thirty-three years old. He was known not only as the world’s first international movie star, but as a comedian, a film director, and a man ripe with scandal, accused of plagiarism, communism, pacifism, liberalism, and anti-Americanism. He seduced young women, marrying four different times, each time to a woman younger than the last. In this animated biography of Chaplin, Joyce Milton reveals to us a life riddled with gossip and a struggle to rise from an impoverished London childhood to the life of a successful American film star. Milton shows us how the creation of his famous character—the Tramp, the Little Fellow—was both rewarding and then devastating as he became obsolete with the changes of time. Tramp is a perceptive, clever, and captivating biography of a talented and complicated man whose life was filled with scandal, politics, and art.

Ratings and reviews

*** AVOID THIS BOOK *** This is a trash job on Chaplin. Ms Milton has done this for other celebrities, as well. She makes up stories and reports them as fact. For example... In this silly book she claims that Charlie had so many children (10) because he had an insane fear of rubber!!! This book is packed with errors and nonsense. If you're interested in the most thorough and factual Chaplin bio, then get His Life & Art by David Robinson.

About the author

Joyce Milton is the author of Loss of Eden: A Biography of Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh, The Yellow Kids: Foreign Correspondents in the Heyday of Yellow Journalism, Tramp: The Life of Charlie Chaplin, The Rosenberg File (with Ronald Radosh), and Vicki (with Anne Bardash).