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Chaplin´s Music Hall: The Chaplins and their Circle in the Limelight
Barry Anthony
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Description for Chaplin´s Music Hall: The Chaplins and their Circle in the Limelight
Hardback. Charlie Chaplin grew up in and around the music hall. His parents, aunt and their friends all earned their precarious livings on the stage and Chaplin himself started out his career touring music halls with a dance troupe. The author tells the story of the lives and careers of Chaplin's family and their music-hall circle. Num Pages: 256 pages, 20 integrated bw. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; 3JJC; ASZH; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 164 x 25. Weight in Grams: 510.
Charlie Chaplin grew up in and around the music hall. His parents, aunt and their friends all earned their precarious livings on the stage and Chaplin himself started out his career touring music halls with a dance troupe. His experiences of the culture of the music hall were a major influence, shaping his style of acting and the films he made, most famously Limelight, which tells the story of a failing variety performer and which evoked painful memories of his own past. Chaplin was horrified to see how performers' lives were ruined when their audience turned against them and he ... Read more
Charlie Chaplin grew up in and around the music hall. His parents, aunt and their friends all earned their precarious livings on the stage and Chaplin himself started out his career touring music halls with a dance troupe. His experiences of the culture of the music hall were a major influence, shaping his style of acting and the films he made, most famously Limelight, which tells the story of a failing variety performer and which evoked painful memories of his own past. Chaplin was horrified to see how performers' lives were ruined when their audience turned against them and he ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
256
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780763149
SKU
V9781780763149
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About Barry Anthony
Barry Anthony is a historian with a particular interest in the Victorian and Edwardian period who has written extensively about popular culture and entertainment. He is the author of The King's Jester: The Life of Dan Leno, Victorian Comic Genius (I.B.Tauris, 2010) and co- author, with Richard Brown, of a groundbreaking study of the early British cinema, A Victorian Film ... Read more
Reviews for Chaplin´s Music Hall: The Chaplins and their Circle in the Limelight
'Barry Anthony has managed to bring back to life the often remarkable and dramatic lives of the performers who once entertained the British public in the many music halls throughout the country.' Michael Chaplin, from the Foreword to this book 'Chaplin's work is rooted in music hall. That is not surprising since both his father and his mother ... Read more