The Circus
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Wikipedia | November 05, 2009
Charlie Chaplin
...that he also has one film credit for choreography for the 1952 film Limelight, and another as a singer for the title music of The Circus (1928). The best known of several songs he composed are "Smile ", composed for the film Modern Times ''...
In this article: Chaplin, Charlie Chaplin, Academy Awards, Mack Sennett, Chaplin, Limelight, The Great Dictator, Modern Times, Joan Barry, and United States
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Wikipedia | October 28, 2009
Wayne Horvitz
...PBS's Chihuly Over Venice, and two films about the creation of Seattle's EMP museum. His 85-minute score to Charlie Chaplin's film The Circus , for two pianos, two clarinets, and violin premiered in January 2000 in Oporto, Portugal. As of...
In this article: Wayne Horvitz, Tucker Martine, Joe Hill, Seattle, Mountain Language, Bill Frisell, Julian Priester, Meet the Composer, and U.S. Artists
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Wikipedia | September 24, 2009
Henry Bergman
...including Assistant Director. He played in many Chaplin shorts and later features, including The Immigrant, The Gold Rush and The Circus ''. Bergman's last on-screen appearance was in ''Modern Times '' as a restaurant manager, and...
In this article: Henry Bergman, Charlie Chaplin, The Pawnshop, The Gold Rush, Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery, Culver City, California, Hollywood, and San Francisco, California
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Wikipedia | September 21, 2009
The Circus (film)
The Circus is a 1928 silent film which finds Charlie Chaplin's Little Tramp character being chased by a police officer having been mistook for a pickpocket. Running into the circus main tent in an attempt to escape the law, the patrons...
In this article: Charlie Chaplin, The Tramp, Tax, Little Tramp, Internal Revenue Service, Lita Grey, Harry Crocker, and George Davis
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Wikipedia | May 09, 2009
Merna Kennedy
...of this movie, and Grey used this infidelity in her divorce proceedings from Chaplin in 1927. Kennedy continued acting after The Circus, starring in early sound films, but retired in 1934, when she married choreographer/director Busby...
In this article: Merna Kennedy, Lita Grey, Busby Berkeley, Kankakee, Illinois, Los Angeles, and California
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boston.com - Latest news | February 03, 2009
Circus cancels annual Hanover, NH performance
The circus had been performing at the Hopkins Center for the Arts, and Hanover was the smallest community in its summer tour. The Circus' founding artistic director Paul Binder, a 1963 graduate of Dartmouth College, says that he's...
In this article: E-mail, Hanover, NH, All rights reserved, Boston.com, and Associated Press
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Wikipedia | February 01, 2009
Al Ernest Garcia
Al Ernest Garcia (11 March 1887, San Francisco, California - 4 September 1938, Los Angeles, California) was an American silent film actor. Al starred with Charlie Chaplin in films such as The Circus .
In this article: Al Ernest Garcia, Charlie Chaplin, San Francisco, California, Los Angeles, and California
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Wikipedia | July 10, 2008
Harry Crocker
Harry Crocker (July 2 1893 - May 23 1958) was a film star of the 1920s and who starred in Charlie Chaplin's The Circus '' in 1928. He was Chaplin's personal assistant until he was sacked during the making of Chaplin's ''City Lights in 1930.
In this article: Harry Crocker, Charlie Chaplin, Central Pacific Railroad, Charles Crocker, William H. Crocker, and City Lights
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NPR | February 11, 2008
The Little Tramp: Frequently Down, Never Out : NPR
...prospector in The Gold Rush, who, when starvation threatens, serves a boiled shoe as if it were five-star cuisine. As a clown in The Circus, who can make audiences howl, but only when he isn't trying. As a boxer, and a street sweeper, and...
In this article: Charlie Chaplin, The Tramp, Little Tramp, The Tramp, NPR, City Lights, Modern Times, Trademark, and Kid Auto Races at Venice
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Wikipedia | August 05, 2007
File:Chalincircus2b.jpg
Poster for The Circus , a 1928 film by Charlie Chaplin. Though this image is subject to copyright, its use is covered by the U.S. fair use laws because: It's a low resolution copy of a Film Poster / VHS or DVD Cover. It doesn't limit...
In this article: Charlie Chaplin and U.S.
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The Circus is a 1928 silent film which finds Charlie Chaplin's Little Tramp character being chased by a police officer at a circus. The ringmaster thinks his antics are hysterical, and hires him, but finds that The Tramp can't be funny on purpose, so the ringmaster makes him a janitor who always happens to be in the ring when things start happening. It stars Chaplin, Al Ernest Garcia, Merna Kennedy, Harry Crocker, George Davis and Henry Bergman.
The movie was written by Chaplin and Joseph Plunkett (prologue, uncredited) and directed by Chaplin. It became the 7th highest grossing silent film in cinema history taking in more than $3.8 million dollars in 1928.
The production of the film was the most difficult experience in Chaplin's career. Numerous problems and delays occurred (including a studio fire), and the filming was interrupted for almost a year by both Chaplin's bitter divorce from his second wife Lita Grey and claims of back taxes by the Internal Revenue Service.
It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor and the short-lived Academy Award for Best Director of a Comedy Picture (both for Charlie Chaplin), but the Academy took Chaplin out of the running for competitive awards by giving him a Special Award "For versatility and genius in acting, writing, directing and producing The Circus," and no longer lists his nominations for Best Actor or Comedy Direction in their official list of nominees, although most unofficial lists of nominations do include him.
In 1970, Chaplin reissued the film with a new musical score.
- Name:
- The Circus
- Country of Origin:
- United States
- Release Date:
- January 06, 1928
- Directed By:
- Charles Chaplin
- Produced by:
- Charles Chaplin
- Written By:
- Charles Chaplin
- Starring:
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- Henry Bergman
- Al Ernest Garcia
- Merna Kennedy
- Charles Chaplin
- Length:
- 70 min
- Language:
- Silent film
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