The Dark Side of Charlie Chaplin
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Charlie Chaplin In Modern Times
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Silent film stars Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and Charlie Chaplin and director D W Griffith sign contract establishing United Artists
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Charlie Chaplin is marrying his leading lady, Lita Grey.
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B/W 1920's close up of Charlie Chaplin
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Marlon Brando interview
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'A Countess from Hong Kong' film premiere
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Film: Charlie Chaplin premiere 'Modern Times':
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Back to the Silent Age!
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Vanessa Redgrave with new baby
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The Little Tramp has ice cream with a woman but spills it is chased by the police through the cafe.
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Lita Grey Chaplin makes appeal for benefit at the Palace Theater
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Charlie Chaplin and wife Oona arrive L.A.P.
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Student actor tries out for Mask and Wig Club at University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia
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Early silent films include a kissing couple and Fatty Arbuckle in "A Village Scandal"
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Early film actors William S. Hart, Clara Kimball Young and Sidney Drew in silent movie scenes
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Twelfth annual Golden Globes Awards ceremony in Los Angeles, California, in 1955
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Racist depiction - 1860s Ku Klux Klan members put on their masks while riding horses
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Racist depiction - 1860s Ku Klux Klan ride horses down a dirt road
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Racist depiction - 1860s servant in blackface and guest butt heads
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Racist depiction - 1860s Ku Klux Klan lynch an African American man, throw his body on a politician's doorstep
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1915 Household members poke their heads up through rubble of explosion as Charlie Chaplin pops head out of exploded stove
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1915 Distracted Charlie Chaplin amuses himself playing with skirted figurine and looking up the skirt
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1915 Irritated boss directs distracted Charlie Chaplin as they prepare wallpaper and paste before decorating
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1915 Struggling Charlie Chaplin rolls backward while pulling a horse cart for boss and nearly get hit by streetcar
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1915 Charlie Chaplin struggles to pull cart with angry, bossy employer and they nearly get hit by streetcar
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Charlie Chaplin arrives at London Airport
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Comenack fopr Charlie Chaplin
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"Citizen Kane" world premiere at RKO Palace Theatre in New York City, 1941
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Charlie Chaplin at Comedie Francais where he received French Legion of Honor rosette
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Charlie Chaplin and wife Oona O'Neil at the Comedie Francais where he is to receive the French
The Dark Side of Buzzfeed would be a great video. It would show complete transparency and people may or may not have a lot of respect for owning up to past/current social sins.
i agree, buzzfeed takes credit for alot of people's hard work and make it into their own. that's why, for example; The Try Guys and Ryan and Shane left because they wanted to pursue their own dreams rather than Buzzfeed taking it away from them.
No once cares
Nobody else tells it with quality like this
they wont do it, it would tarnish their brand c'mon
@@dulcedeleche000 Considering your spelling you're absolutely right. Ridiculous
Im surprised how little to no content has made about Charlie Chaplin except for this one, considering he was one of the most famous people in the 20th century.
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Im surprised how much support some people have for a guy who married underaged girls
Charles Chaplin was a creep
Love everyone calling pedophilia a 'flaw'.
Exactly right
I mean, how is it not a flaw?
so charly left the 🇺🇸 by 1950? or at least the western states? i say this as my family history bumps in to him as we still had stock and a sined i owe you note he lost in a poker match and boos we sold to him/others ect. and if that's the case knowing he's a little predatoryale 🤔my great ants/grand mother and her at the time under 10 years old dotters may have be creep out and or vear aka grate gamps "helped him get lost/force him to get lost" as by 1955 he changed after losing a son to WW2/bad shine/wife killed him
btw clare butters ( grate uncle of mine ) was in the FBI aka id bet he's the man that called Charlie a comei/soviet and or spy
@@richardprice5978 wtf is going on with your spelling?
young women? kids, call it what it was
i have always felt for mildred and lita, they deserved better than him. he was a creep.
I think of them as golddiggers, and they had to actually had to work for a living, and they didn't like that. And became bitter at him and smeared his name sound familiar.
@@karlakirkpatrick6687 Yes, we always wanna blame the women, don't we?
@@karlakirkpatrick6687 Or maybe he was just abusive and you're making excuses for him.
@@karlakirkpatrick6687 sounds to me like victim blaming here 😬 they were literal children how could they even think that far ahead
@@karlakirkpatrick6687 my brother in christ, they were literal children who were groomed
I remember reading a long article about how WWI-era coincided with a really bad domestic abuse epidemic in the US; basically, things like racism and sexism were turned even more violent because veterans had very bad PTSD and they were told to deal with it by taking it out on other people (this doesn't excuse any of the abuse, we just need to recognize that the "greatest generation" really wasn't that great)
Self-proclaimed “greatest generation”. There’s still so many things that we have to deal with now and work through that the older generation has so deeply normalized.
The generation fighting ww1 was the ‘lost generation’. The ‘greatest generation’ is the one fighting ww2.
Amen.
The WWI veterans got screwed over by the government in regards to their benefits, so they were pretty pissed off. Add in the Great Depression and you get a recipe for disdain and hatred.
@@beer5859 the great depression.
"He essentially exiled himself... to SWITZERLAND" ... in a palatial mansion with a beautiful mountain view that you can now visit. As far as exiles go, this one was pretty d*mn nice!
I should be shocked but im not, it sucks that it happened but it feels like this type of stuff is kinda common for the time.
yea, i feel like there’s this type of dirt on most famous ppl in that era
@@isaacwithapig exactly, let's be honest more stuff famous folks would be able to get away with back then. Heck there wasn't stalking laws til I believe in1960s or 1970s
Truth hurts it seems
Those who don't learn from the mistakes of the past are doomed to repeat it
Ok. Learned a few things about him. One thing that wasnt talked about was that his Mother was in the work house with her children.
I can just hear the comments "it was a different time! Don't cancel Charlie!" Well, last week was a different time doesn't mean the things I did then are okay now. It's still sickening, what if it was your daughter?
Finally someone who has a brain
You got a point. I mean you wrote this comment 54 whole minutes ago and it's still completely moronic. Time didn't change that. I'll report back in a week and see if it changes.
Edit: nope it did not
I dont think you understand the “it was a different time” rationale.
I think by my modern sensibilities that what Sparta did with young boys was sick and deplorable, but “it was a different time” and I am incapable of morally judging people in the time and space that they lived in.
When I taught my students about the pre CW American south I made the point that I might be married to someone who is black i be fairly progressive on ideas dealing with social justice. I also judge the history of slavery in the us as a horrendous tragedy....
But I also understand that I was born a poor white child in the south as much as Id lime to claim I’d support abolition chances are it wouldnt be the case.
Hopefully you got bit better on your understanding of “it was a different time” from those examples.
(The daughter example you gave was a bit confusing.)
Regardless no need to cancel anyone being that even when someone has faults no matter how great they still have other accomplishments worthy of praise.
The mistreatment of women is something that is universally frowned upon and that goes about as far back in history as I can recall... and now that I think about the daughter example, i think thats the point you were making.
In that case, yeah, it was a different time doesnt apply here. I think during this time people were a bit less worried about being exposed.
Sorry if I didnt get the original post til the end. Im out running and my brain had to kick back in.
Go back in time and complain over there.
@@jelly3374 how is it moronic?
Chaplain’s work is still great, but we need to recognize the things he did. Don’t advocate for getting rid of his work as that was different then him behind closed doors.
Who's denying the things he did? We've known this for decades. There's no need to recognize something that's already known. What you're calling for is to rehash someone's actions to complain about something right now. Grow up.
@@reallauradee surprisingly, a lot of people still don't know. hell- I'm the one that had to tell my older relatives haha. It's really interesting
Are you kidding me? What if that was your child? I think all of his movies should be removed and banned.
@@reallauradee not you telling someone to grow up when you know da mn well charlie chaplin likes 'em young! 🤣
@@reallauradee I never complained. I said his art is still funny. We shouldn’t ban his art that mind you he didn’t even make it was the producers who hired him without knowing, so technically it isn’t even his own.
I'm very glad that BUN isn't shying away from more controversial subjects.
You should do Errol Flynn next, oh boy that is messed up!!!!!!
Yes! You know who's on par with Flynn? Clark Gable. Utter prick and monster. But men that abused women were protected at the time.
To do with his slavery/blackbirding?
spill the tea i wanna know
Tell us please
Very interesting and disturbing, thank you
I love Charlie Chaplin...but unfortunately he definitely had a very seedy side.
I think we all know who the dark side of Charlie Chaplin is…
LMAO
Charlie Charlie?
I don't get it....
@Otneimica ohhhhhh. Thanks man. 🤣
@@jamelbunny5732 Think of someone who looks like CC, with a habit of invading lots of countries.
Chaplin bought a palatial house in Switzerland only to learn later that year that the property was situated next to a Swiss Army practice range. He tried, unsuccessfully, to have the practice range closed down. The Swiss were not amused.
the child brides things are extremely disturbing, but yelling at actors who are late is totally okay imo
Yelling at ppl is never ok
@@sayunara it is, buddy. They get paid, they have to come in time
If someone is always late, they kinda deserve the yelling.
But if someone is sometimes late, yelling is not "totally" ok but surely understandable.
@@sayunara What world do you live in
@@wordswordswords413 why do u love yelling sm lmao
Damn I watched him with my grandparents. So sad.
However, Hollywood is still fucked.
I still wonder how much of this is presentism. My parents married in 1961 when she was just 16, and there was a flourish of their peers that did about the same.
Yes, this is filtering historical norms thru modern lens. He’s still gross, but I can’t with this retroactive revisionism- now stretching back to the silent film era.
i understand why charlie chaplin was the way he was. he was at the top, everybody loved him, so he became very powerful. remember, back then being on tv was considered like being a pope or something (not literally obviously). n when bad people become powerful, they tend to do sick things to express that power. n what better way than to degrade people below him n screwing young girls. these days powerful people would do the same too but they do it on their yachts or on extremely private occassions.
They got D. B. Cooper for this.
You know its serious.
Lol
'oh no I've wasted my life idolising someone who was abusive. Better accept it and learn from it' 'oh wait..nah let's double down and stick to my guns..everyone is flawed'
So many normies fml.
some of the takes im seeing in the comments are...
they buggin
I'd rather watch buster Keaton
I LOVE THIS-
NOT CHARLIE!! 😭
I also love this narrator, even though they didn't disclose their face!
Where were those girls parents, who actualy let this happen?
In some documentary about those times heard that it was normal for some moms to actually move with their underage daughters to Hollywood and encourage their relations with older influential men. I'm not trying to whitewash him, but each story may have 2 sides.
Hitler from what I am told cut his German mustache to mimic Chaplin's.
That's true
I stayed at the Santa Maria Inn and stayed in the Charlie Chaplin room. There was a mirror directly above the bed, dirty boy.
Jesus Christ talk about a Lolita complex. Any grown man who acts on his attraction to young girls is disgusting. 🤮
When did unsolved become old gossip instead of crime and paranormal mysteries?
Thank you for exposing Charles Chaplin for what he really was.
Who is this stunning beauty that appears at 6:49 ? :O
sophia loren :)
What did this have to do with anything paranormal or even unsolved? It was good but why on this channel?
If I never liked Charles Chaplin, I even like him less now.
Lovely voice.
I never ever found Chaplin funny, at all, I actually found him creepy, weird how millions can find a person hilarious and brilliant, whilst others just see not much if anything.
me too
i imagine he was a lot funnier for those who had only seen 5 movies ever
He seem like a sociopathic person and brought me bad vibes man
It’s like Jimmy Saville as a child I completely felt creeped out by him
@Otneimica he wasn’t your right he was way more bad
Awesome work. 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
I’m a big fan! I love him. ❤
I am surprised you did not talk about his time living in the workhouse.
One thing that needs to be stated. Older men marrying younger girls was pretty much the norm in a LOT of states back then.
Is it and excuse for chaplin? No.
I like his silent film era work but he did what he did. His shenanigans unfortunately are one of the few that are very publicly known whereas others that where not in the limelight have faded away into oblivion and none existence.
So many times has it been that innovation, works of art, films, and other medium of entertainment are and have been created from individuals with VERY fucked up ways of living and points of view.
Even medicines "progress" has been built on the info and studies born of many atrocities and hideous experimentation.
Nothing is clean
Supposedly every woman he married was an attempt to fill the loss of Hetty Kelly, his one true love. She died in the Spanish Flu Pandemic of 1918.
don't care
still a creep
Quite Understandable since he's an Aries
‘Barely 18’ so legal
Face in the shadow, dark glasses, why?
So, Charlie had some Biden/Clinton tendencies
he should be called predator Chaplin
Couldn't imagine having a wife that I had to ask, "How was school?" when she comes home.
does anyone believe that the cause of his dark side is fame.
Chaplin and Hitler had the same birth year and month, just 4 days apart
In fact, Hitler modelled his moustache after Charlie. True story.
@@chrisvanuden Source?
his permit of re-entry was revoked. wth?
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Wait where shane and ryan wtf i miss the spooky bois
They have a new channel called Watcher now, you can watch them there
@@dk28100 ok thanks
0:13 *WTF!*
Is it just me or does Lita Gray look like Kirsten Dunst?
Lovely and it was detail.
This was very unique to know about this
That is the most amazing video i ever watch in my life. Thank you for a life-changing experience. Thank you thank you thank you. I’m crying thank you thank you thank you.
I started watching this video and said “oh you could’ve stopped at his birthday, he’s a f***ing Aries”. And then you said “hitler was born the same week and had eerily similar features” and I did the office looking at the camera thing
There is something deeply wrong with you if you think the month someone is born indicates that they're a bad person
Rebel 🤡
Horoscopes is not a good way of judging people 🙄 judge people by the merits of their actions. Not when and how they were born.
Aries Men are the worst. They don't treat Women well at all. I've seen it.
The chap chaplin was slapped in the face for beeing an SOB communist. I think it was in 1914. A f***king Aries.
He is the best entertainer not the best human , mind it .
If he were black they'd be calls and efforts to cancel him even in death.
damn..never knew this side of a "great man"
Nice video❤️ Can I get heart pls? 🤗
I'll give you a heart Mad Man! ♥️
Yeah, Marlon Brando, complaining about the process. Seems like the pot telling a kettle's secrets. Is the narrator of this in the dark to hide the disingenuousness?
I mean, abusers are usually created via abuse... Doesn't make it ok in any sense, but is illustrative.
Lol y’all get so mad when your faves are revealed to be abusers. Lol you did not know this man. Relax.
It's crazy to think that if one is anti nazy they would be called communist by some.
He should have Been locked up in JAIL
5:22 Bruh
So apparenely women could face consequences just for wearing Red lipstick or running a marathon but men simply get away with pedophilia.... 🙄🙄
damn, it keeps going lower and lower 😦
dont know why he behaved in such way with others was that because of his own past experiences??? that made him such person.
Just saying,
Just sayin,
16 years old it’s not old enough to make great decisions yes,
But it’s old enough to know weather u wanna get fucked or not.
Not to mention at the time a woman who’s 16 is pretty much a woman not a child.
It was noticeable even at the time yes,
But at the time he was barely an outlier.
He’s still a great actor with great movies,and they can’t be banned or removed because they’re a part of history now
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Pa Pa Pa Americano 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
He still is going to be the greatest man in cinema. all men in Hollywood go after younger women.. it’s not news.
Chaplin was iconic. And his private life has nothin to do with his career and picture.
Actually it has if you look at how his leading ladies were also his mistresses or future mistresses and wives. His work is a mirror of himself, his life wisdom, his childhood and whatever inner conflicts and demons he was fighting off screen.
What a creepy guy 😬
The USA treated Chaplin like CRAP.....A great artist they should have been happy he was creating classics in America
People who want to flaunt their self-righteousness these days begin by picking on Charlie Chaplin.
Interesting 😮😮😮😮
0:49 do we really?
I don't think I can handle any more it if it just gonna be hate and bigotry 😢
_rain check_
Too bad the me too movement wasn't alive & kicking at this time so many of these actors would have been locked up
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Play back speed 0.75x 🤣
Why is the narrator sat in the dark did I miss something? 🤔
Chaplin lived and worked at his parents’ pub on Lambeth Walk, south London, a street popularised by the song (Doing the) Lambeth Walk from the musical Me and My Girl.
Lambeth Walk was a street in London where vaudeville was located and was a specific target of Hitler during the 10 month air bombardment by the Luftwaffe that was the blitz, because for Hitler vaudeville = Jews.
Is not was
@@dawnmancaloriankeebals4262 there is not vaudeville on Lambeth walk. There was.
@@yoredeerleader "Lambeth Walk was a street in London"
Lambeth Walk is a street in London!
@@dawnmancaloriankeebals4262 Lambeth Walk was a street in London which hosted vaudeville. Now eff off.
@@yoredeerleader You're still incorrectly implying that Lambeth Walk no longer exists.
Are you thick or just ignorant?
How about you make me eff off you imbecile!!!!
interesting
Given the choice between a young, legal, woman. And an older, overweight woman. Gee which one would the average man choose. Obviously at the time marriage with the women Chaplain choose to be with was legal. You miss mentioning that fact.
16 is legal now.
@@sharksport01 You are not.
@@stephencurry8552
Uh, ok.
"Paternal feeling" like a father figure. Um Charlie you had s€x with them. Even if they were adults that would still be creepy. *He was Woody Allen before Woody Allen*
So was Elvis and Steven Tyler-no one cares, apparently-except with R.Kelly. Wonder why??
Yeah he's a horrible person, but damn he made good movies
charlie really say "i got hitler on my mind"😳😳😳🥶
Sup party people
Hello
@@valsayshi1166 sup
Wooooo!
Buddy, you’re speaking way too quickly. Anxiety inducing.
"Mon seer"? 🤔
7:21
I never liked his work. Sure he's a great filmmaker, I get it, but I'm more of a Buster Keaton fan. And watching this, just gave me an even bigger reason to hate him. He's terrible, sick and twisted and I hate how overrated he's become in Hollywood, while Buster Keaton (what I know so far was a good man) gets very underrated. In my opinion, Keatons work was better. And at least he married women over age 20.
fast talk
Never knew this. Gross.
Wasn’t Charlie Chaplin also an artist and part of WW2
YOU JUST RUINED MY CHILDHOOD