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CHARLIE CHAPLIN
The person I am going to write about is Charlie Chaplin. He has always been one of my
favorite actors and I really (1)_____ his films.
Charlie was born in London in 1889. Both his parents were music hall performers. His
father was a drunkard and his mother later (2)______ mad. Life was hard and Charlie
and his half brother, Sidney, were sent to a(n) (3)______ for a time.
He first appeared on the stage when he was seven and by the time he was ten he was a
regular performer. When he was 17, he went on a tour of the USA where he was (4)
_______ and given a part in a Hollywood film. His early films were not particularly
successful but in 1915 he made his (5) _______, “The Tramp”, in which he first appeared
in the baggy trousers and with the hat and cane. Soon he had had his own (6)_______
built and was making his own films which included “The Gold Rush”, “Modern Times”
and “The Great Dictator”.
In the 1940s his reputation in the USA started to (7) _______. Silent films were no
longer so popular. Chaplin went to Europe but was not allowed to return to the USA
because he was (8) _______ of being a communist. The authorities finally let him back
in 1972 and he was (9)_______ an Oscar, but by this time he had made Switzerland his
home.
Chaplin did not have a very happy personal life and was married four times. He
only found happiness with his fourth marriage in 1943. When he died on Christmas Day
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