Charlie Chaplin

New York: Henry Schuman, 1951 Book. Very Good +. Hardcover. First Edition. Large 8vo. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good -. (viii), 354 pp, list of b&w illustrations, 1. The Importance of Chaplin and His Art; 2. Childhood and Stage Career; 3. The Karno Company and Tour in America; 4. The Motion Picture Industry, December 1913, and a note on Mack Sennett; 5. Chaplin at Keystone; 6. The Chaplin-Keystone Films (1914); 7. Essanay -- The Transitional Period; 8. $10,000 a Week at Mutual; 9. The Classic Mutual Comedies; 10. Million-Dollar Contract and First Marriage; 11. "A Dog's Life" -- First Masterpiece; 12. "Shoulder Arms"; 13. Two Failures; 14. Chaplin's Method; 15. "The Kid"; 16. Chaplin's 1921 Trip Abroad; 17. New Friends; 18. Two Minor Comedies; 19. "The Pilgrim"; 20. "A Woman of Paris; 21."The Gold Rush"; 22. Lita Grey -- Second Marriage and Divorce; 23. "The Circus"; 24. "City Lights"; 25. Chaplin as a Composer; 26. Trip Around the World; Paulette Goddard; 27. "Modern Times"; 28. "The Great Dictator"; 29. Law Suits and Another Marriage; 30. Chaplin and Politics; 31. "Monsieru Verdoux; Postscript; an index to films of Charles Chaplin, biographical sketches of the people professionally associated with Chaplin, index. First Edition,1951. "Synopses of every movie Charlie ever made recapture the mood so faithfully, with each famous comedy 'business' highlighted, that the reader will chuckle and laugh aloud almost as if he were present at an actual rescreening of the famous old comedies. Almost 150 b&w stills from the pictures, and other photographs of Charlie and the personalities with whom he was asociated, help to recreate the illusion. The vivid biography's emphasis is on the conditions which had important bearing on Chaplin as a crreative artist. The author confines himself to the facts and in doing so demolishes many legends. In their place emerges a real figure -- richer, more exciting and vastly more significant than the legendary images." from the jacket flap. Price clipped. Inked name on ffep. 4" line of jagged chips top top edge dj with light edge wear to bottom edge of same. Minor edge wear with lightly age-toned text block edges, else, Pristine Interior. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. grey cloth with pictorial panel on front board, white lettering to spine..