Reel V Real by Frank Sanello

Author:Frank Sanello
Language: eng
Format: azw3
ISBN: 0878332685
Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing
Published: 2002-12-28T05:00:00+00:00

Chaplin

(1992)

Directed by Richard Attenborough

Written by William Boyd, Bryan Forbes, William Goldman, Diana Hawkins

CAST

Robert Downey Jr. (Charlie Chaplin)

Geraldine Chaplin (Hannah Chaplin)

Paul Rhys (Sydney Chaplin)

John Thaw (Fred Karno)

Moira Kelly (Hetty Kelly/Oona O’Neill)

Anthony Hopkins (George Hayden)

Dan Aykroyd (Mack Sennett)

Marisa Tomei (Mabel Normand)

Penelope Ann Miller (Edna Purviance)

Kevin Kline (Douglas Fairbanks)

Maria Pitillo (Mary Pickford)

Milla Jovovich (Mildred Harris)

Kevin Dunn (J. Edgar Hoover)

Deborah Moore (Lita Grey)

Diane Lane (Paulette Goddard)

Nancy Travis (Joan Barry)

James Woods (Lawyer Scott)

Sometimes a filmmaker’s access to primary sources diminishes rather than heightens the authenticity of a biographical film. A good example of too much access leading to excess is Chaplin, director Richard Attenborough’s film portrait of the greatest actor of the silent era.

In telling the story of Charlie Chaplin, Attenborough and a quartet of credited screenwriters relied on the subject’s autobiography, plus sources the late star may have not been happy to supply, but his widow, Oona O’Neill Chaplin, happily turned over to the director. “I met her about 20 times,” Attenborough said of the woman Chaplin married when she was an underage teen, his favorite type of love interest. “It was not an intimate relationship, but she was sweet enough to say I could see everything: letters, diaries, and ask questions, even if they seemed somewhat indelicate.”

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