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Introduzione al compito,breve panoramica e spiegazione dei materiali, traduzione dei testi della canzone e dello speech

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The eternal fight for freedom in Music and Arts

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Listen to the song “Iron Sky” by Paolo Nutini and to the “Speech to Humanity” by Charlie Chaplin that Nutini embedded in his song. Then have a look to the other materials linked below (a Biography of Chaplin, and some insights about the movie “the Great Dictator”, from which the speech is taken. You’ll also find a short explanation about the historical context in which Chaplin worked). Than try to make a personal analysis (write a short paragraph, around 70/100 words) about the two texts and their overall meaning, expressing your personal thought about what you think are their main themes applied to the present but also in relations to the history you’ve been studying so far.

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This 2014 song by the Welsh singer is a cry for freedom for mankind in all times. At a certain point there’s an excerpt from the “speech for humanity” that Charlie Chaplin pronounces in the 1940 movie “the Great Dictator”, a direct parody of the Nazi Germany and of its true dictator.

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Paolo Nutini - Iron Sky [Abbey Road Live Session]

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Taken from the “anti war songs” website, here is an insight about the song themes and inspiration, and about he message Nutini wanted to convey.

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We are proud individuals
Living for the city
But the flames
Couldn't go much higher

We find Gods and religions
To paint us with salvation
But no one, no nobody
Can give you, the power

To rise, over love
Over hate
Through this iron sky that's fast becoming our mind
Over fear and into freedom

Oh, that's life
That's dripping down the walls
Of a dream that cannot breathe
In this harsh reality
Mass confusion spoon fed to the blind
Serves now to define our cold society

From which we'll rise, over love
Over hate
Through this iron sky that's fast becoming our mind
Over fear and into freedom

You've just got to hold on
You've just got to hold on

"To those who can hear me, I say, do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed. The bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress. The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people and so long as men die, liberty will never perish. Don't give yourselves to these unnatural men - machine men with machine minds and machine hearts! You are not machines! You are not cattle! You are men! You, the people, have the power to make this life. Free and beautiful. To make this life a wonderful adventure. Let us use that power - let us all unite!"

And we'll rise
Over love
Over hate
Through this iron sky that's fast becoming our mind
Over fear and into freedom
Into freedom

From which we'll rise, over love
Over hate
Through this iron sky that's fast becoming our mind
Over fear and into
Freedom, freedom
From which we'll rise, over love
Over hate
Through this iron sky that's fast becoming our mind
Over fear and into freedom
Freedom, freedom

Oh, rain on me
Rain on me
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Canzoni contro la guerra: Paolo Nutini - Iron Sky

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We are proud individuals Living for the city But the flames Couldn't go much higher We find Gods and religions To paint us with salvation But no one, no nobody Can give you, the power To rise, over love Over hate Through this iron sky that's fast becoming our mind

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Video of the speech taken from the movie

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Charlie Chaplin - Final Speech from The Great Dictator

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I'm sorry, but I don't want to be an emperor. That's not my business. I don't want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone - if possible - Jew, Gentile - black man - white. We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness - not by each other's misery. We don't want to hate and despise one another. In this world there is room for everyone. And the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way.

Greed has poisoned men's souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical. Our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery we need humanity. More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost....

The aeroplane and the radio have brought us closer together. The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men - cries out for universal brotherhood - for the unity of us all. Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world - millions of despairing men, women, and little children - victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people.

To those who can hear me, I say - do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed - the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress. The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish. .....

Soldiers! don't give yourselves to brutes - men who despise you - enslave you - who regiment your lives - tell you what to do - what to think and what to feel! Who drill you - diet you - treat you like cattle, use you as cannon fodder. Don't give yourselves to these unnatural men - machine men with machine minds and machine hearts! You are not machines! You are not cattle! You are men! You have the love of humanity in your hearts! You don't hate! Only the unloved hate - the unloved and the unnatural! Soldiers! Don't fight for slavery! Fight for liberty!

In the 17th Chapter of St Luke it is written: "the Kingdom of God is within man" - not one man nor a group of men, but in all men! In you! You, the people have the power - the power to create machines. The power to create happiness! You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure.

Then - in the name of democracy - let us use that power - let us all unite. Let us fight for a new world - a decent world that will give men a chance to work - that will give youth a future and old age a security. By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power. But they lie! They do not fulfil that promise. They never will!

Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people! Now let us fight to fulfil that promise! Let us fight to free the world - to do away with national barriers - to do away with greed, with hate and intolerance. Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men's happiness. Soldiers! in the name of democracy, let us all unite!
Final speech from The Great Dictator Copyright © Roy Export S.A.S. All rights reserved
The Great Dictator was Chaplin's first film with dialogue. Chaplin plays both a little Jewish barber, living in the ghetto, and Hynkel, the dictator ruler of Tomainia. In his autobiography Chaplin quotes himself as having said: "One doesn't have to be a Jew to be anti Nazi. All one has to be is a normal decent human being."

Chaplin and Hitler were born within a week of one another. "There was something uncanny in the resemblance between the Little Tramp and Adolf Hitler, representing opposite poles of humanity, " writes Chaplin biographer David Robinson, reproducing an unsigned article from The Spectator dated 21st April 1939:
"Providence was in an ironical mood when, fifty years ago this week, it was ordained that Charles Chaplin and Adolf Hitler should make their entry into the world within four days of each other....Each in his own way has expressed the ideas, sentiments, aspirations of the millions of struggling citizens ground between the upper and the lower millstone of society. (...) Each has mirrored the same reality - the predicament of the "little man" in modern society. Each is a distorting mirror, the one for good, the other for untold evil."

Chaplin spent many months drafting and re-writing the speech for the end of the film, a call for peace from the barber who has been mistaken for Hynkel. Many people criticized the speech, and thought it was superfluous to the film. Others found it uplifting. Regrettably Chaplin's words are as relevant today as they were in 1940.

Transcript of Charlie Chaplin's Final Speech in The Great Dictator

This is My Song

Music and Lyrics by Charles Chaplin for A Countess from Hong Kong, 1966

The Spring Song

The theme of this simple but lovely song about love and spring can be found in the score of A King in New York

I'd Sell My Soul

From A King in New York. Music and Lyrics by Charles Chaplin. Vocals: Shirley Norman

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The Final Speech from The Great Dictator

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I'm sorry, but I don't want to be an emperor. That's not my business. I don't want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone - if possible - Jew, Gentile - black man - white. We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that.

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During World War I, an anonymous private, (Chaplin) fighting in the army of Tomania, effects the valiant rescue of an officer named Schultz, but suffers loss of memory when the plane in which they are flying crashes into a tree. The little soldier is sent to a hospital where he remains for the next 20 years, unaware of the changes that are taking place around him. He does not know, for instance, that Hynkel (also played by Chaplin) has become Dictator of Tomania, and is ruthlessly persecuting the jews with the help of his two ministers, Garbitsch and Herring.

Dismissed at last from the hospital, the amnesia victim returns to his barber-shop in the Ghetto, expecting to find everything as he left it 20 years before, because he does not realise that he has been away for so long. He is surprised and hurt, therefore, when Hynkel's storm-troopers smash his store windows and make his new life miserable. He finds a friend in Hannah, a beautiful daughter of the Ghetto, and before long their friendship ripens into love.

For a while they enjoy comparative peace firstly when Schultz, who has risen to a position of prominence in the new regime, recognises the barber as his friend and orders the storm troopers to leave him alone, and secondly when Hynkel needs a financial loan from a Jewish financier and ceases temporarily his persecution of the Jews.

The financier refuses the loan, so Hynkel takes up his anitisemitic activities again, with a vengeance. He is planning an invasion of the neighbouring country of Osterlich, and when Schultz questions the judgement of this move, the Dictator condemns him to a concentration camp. Schultz manages to escape to the ghetto, where he attempts to incite a revolution against the government. But before he can carry out this plan he and the barber are both captured and interned in prison camp.

Pursuing his project of invading Osterlich, Hynkel invites to his palace Napaloni, Dictator of Bacteria, and after a few comic misunderstandings is able to enlist him as an ally. The invasion is successfully completed and Hannah, who has fled with her friends to Osterlich, again finds herself under the domination of Hynkel's cruel regime.

While the great dictator is celebrating his latest conquest by taking a vacation in the country, Schultz and the barber escape from the concentration camp. In the search that follows, Hynkel is arrested by his own soldiers, who think he is the barber, and Schultz sees that the barber is mistaken for the Dictator. Realising the importance of his new position the barber carries out the masquerade and in a speech before the assembled crowds of Tomania, denounces everything that Hynkel stands for and makes a rousing plea for democracy.

The Kid Synopsis

Synopsis of "The Kid" exactly as written by the Chaplin Studio in 1921

Monsieur Verdoux Synopsis

Verdoux is a bluebeard, an insignificant bank clerk, who, having lost his job during the Depression, evolves a scheme of marrying old spinsters and murdering them for their money...

The Circus Synopsis

The Tramp wanders into a circus carnival, and finds himself embroiled with a pickpocket and the police...

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During World War I, an anonymous private, (Chaplin) fighting in the army of Tomania, effects the valiant rescue of an officer named Schultz, but suffers loss of memory when the plane in which they are flying crashes into a tree.

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The making of the movies, some insights from behind the scenes and from the context in which Chaplin worked.

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In the autumn of 1938, when the Munich Agreement was being signed in Europe, Charles Chapin was putting the finishing touches to the first draft of a script written in the greatest secrecy. Rumour had it that the creator of the Tramp had decided to make his first talking film. Moreover, it was said that he would be playing the part of a character inspired by Adolf Hitler.

Finally, after the long and painstaking process of revising and then directing, Chaplin presented The Great Dictator in New York on October 15th 1940. The historical circumstances in which he had found himself during those two years were quite extraordinary. His native country, England, had declared war at the beginning of September 1939, but the United States, where he had been living as a permanent resident - but British citizen - since 1913, had resolved to keep out of the conflict that was to bathe the Old Continent in blood.

By waging war against Hitler via the silver screen, Chaplin was making a personal commitment and, albeit with more gravitas, repeating the experience of Shoulder Arms. Even before shooting began, The Great Dictator had enraged German and British diplomats posted in the United States and brought Chaplin to the forefront of celebrities harassed by the House of Un-American Activities.

This struggle in favour of a democratic idea of peace is in itself reason enough for the historian's interest. Chaplin, however, added to the credits of The Great Dictator the following warning; "Any resemblance between Hynkel the Dictator and the Jewish barber is purely coincidental." This was a playful way of hinting that what was really at stake was not so much Chaplin's double role but the tension between him and his twin, the Tramp. Up to now the Little Tramp had conveyed an experience of the world through the language of pantomime, and because he embodied no national identity and spoke no mother tongue, he had touched the hearts of spectators everywhere. His immense success rested on popular acclaim but also on the recognition of intellectuals, especially in France in the 1920s, where many artists and authors praised his genius.

Getting Charlie to speak also meant putting to death this character that had made his creator famous and taking the risk of exposing himself without a mask. Does the declamatory speech at the end of The Great Dictator betray Chaplin's inability to sustain the aesthetic and comic register all the way through to the end of the film? Chaplin was well aware of these issues, which is why he wrote the words "First picture in which the story is bigger than the Little Tramp."

Chaplin's real history was not just the one he was facing up to, but also the one he was recounting by combining the characters of the Tramp and the Jewish barber in the image of the "pariah".

Copyright © Christian Delage, Chaplin Facing History, published by Jean-Michel Place 2005

Filming A Dog's Life

From the moment he entered movies, Charles Chaplin knew that he needed total creative autonomy in order to make the kind of comedy of which he alone was capable...

Filming A Woman of Paris

A Woman of Paris was a courageous step in the career of Charles Chaplin...

Extract of draft typescript of "A Comedian Sees the World" by Charles Chaplin, 1932

"It took three weeks to synchronize my picture City Lights and I can assure you it was a most nerve-racking experience."

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In the autumn of 1938, when the Munich Agreement was being signed in Europe, Charles Chapin was putting the finishing touches to the first draft of a script written in the greatest secrecy. Rumour had it that the creator of the Tramp had decided to make his first talking film.

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The cast and details of the movie

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Year :

1940

Cast :

Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Jack Oakie, Henry Daniell, Reginald Gardiner, Billy Gilbert, Maurice Moscovich, Emma Dunn, Bernard Gorcey, Paul Weigel, Grace Hayle, Carter De Haven, Chester Conklin...

Production :

United Artists

Description :

A barber wounded during the First World War returns home after 20 years within hospital walls. His shop has grown full of cobwebs and dust, but it is the hateful graffiti on his shop window that takes him totally by surprise. Hynkel, the tyrannical dictator, and his henchmen persecute the barber, as well as the rest of the Jewish community, including the beautiful Hannah... A visionary satire that marked history, just as history itself left its mark on the film.

DVD & Blu-ray :

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From the Charlie Chaplin official website an overview of the life and work of this great artist

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Charles Spencer Chaplin was born in London, England, on April 16th, 1889. His father was a versatile vocalist and actor; and his mother, known under the stage name of Lily Harley, was an attractive actress and singer, who gained a reputation for her work in the light opera field.

Charlie was thrown on his own resources before he reached the age of ten as the early death of his father and the subsequent illness of his mother made it necessary for Charlie and his brother, Sydney, to fend for themselves.

Having inherited natural talents from their parents, the youngsters took to the stage as the best opportunity for a career. Charlie made his professional debut as a member of a juvenile group called "The Eight Lancashire Lads" and rapidly won popular favour as an outstanding tap dancer.

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Chaplin - A Musical Biography

In 1929 Chaplin commented that talking pictures were "ruining the great beauty of silence". It is a wonderful paradox that the advent of sound would enable him to reach a new level of accomplishment as an artist with the score for City Lights.

Charlie's Mother: Hannah Chaplin

Hannah was a singer and character comedienne in the British music halls with the stage name of Lily Harley, and she did enjoy some success. Sadly her career was plagued on and off by ill health, and it was when her voice failed during a performance.

Charlie's Father: Charles Chaplin Sr.

His marriage to Hannah did not last long, and they separated when Charlie was only about one year old. Charlie Chaplin had little contact with his father, except for a short period when he and Sydney stayed with Charles Chaplin Sr. during their mother's

The Older Brother: Sydney

Charlie Chaplin and his brother Sydney were very close and looked out for each other from their childhood days. Four years Charlie's senior, Sydney played a paternally protective role to his little brother throughout his life.

The Younger Brother: W. Dryden

The son of Hannah Chaplin and Leo Dryden, Wheeler Dryden was taken away from his mother as a baby. He was touring India and the Far East as a vaudeville comedian when he first learned from his father that the famous Charlie Chaplin was his half brother.

Charlie Chaplin's Wives

Charlie Chaplin had three wives previous to Oona O' Neill : Mildred Harris, Lita Grey and Paulette Goddard.

Chaplin Children and Grandchildren

About Charlie Chaplin's descendants

The Gamine: Paulette Goddard

Among Chaplin's leading ladies, Paulette Goddard stands out for a number of reasons. She was the female lead in his last silent film (Modern Times 1936) and in his first talkie (The Great Dictator 1940).

Chaplin & Music

"Mother usually brought me to the theatre at night in preference to leaving me alone in rented rooms"

Chaplin as a Composer

Extract from " Charlie Chaplin " by Theodore Huff, published by Henry Schuman Inc., New York 1951

Chaplin's Film Premieres

It's probably no surprise that the first ever "over-the-top" film premiere in Hollywood took place at one of Sid Grauman's showplaces...

Chaplin Radio Broadcasts

Chaplin may have made the transition to sound film slowly and even reluctantly, but he was using radio to his advantages as early as 1923...

Chaplin and Winter Sports

We've all heard and read the accounts of how much Chaplin hated the cold. Lesser known and retold are the accounts of him making the most of nature's winter assets...

Happy Birthday, Charlie!

One of the first accounts of Charlie's birthday by the press is found in the Augusta Chronicle on Tuesday, April 16, 1918...

Christmas with Charlie

"How well I remember one Christmas Day sitting on that same seat at Hanwell school, weeping copious tears"...

Tango Entanglement

Charlie himself began to be known for his tango prowess in the early 1930s...

Charlie Chaplin... His Recipes!

It has long been recognized that "food" in one form or another was a very important part of Charlie Chaplin's life and art...

Chaplin and the Légion d'Honneur

Chaplin's acquisition of the Légion d'Honneur medal and its attendant respect and honor took nearly ten years and probably ten times the difficulty it needed to...

Collecting Charlie Chaplin

The ideas for context collecting Charlie Chaplin are endless...

Who was Professor Bosco?

The name "Professor Bosco" will ring a bell to those familiar with the work of Charlie Chaplin

The Walk That Talks

What does Chaplin speak when he walks? An article contributed by Sawani Vinita, Researcher, India

Filmography

Charlie Chaplin's filmography

Chaplin at Keystone: The Tramp is Born

Building on traditions forged in the commedia dell'arte which he learned in the British music halls, Charles Chaplin brought traditional theatrical forms into an emerging medium and changed both cinema and culture in the process...

Essanay - Chaplin Brand

If the early slapstick of the Keystone comedies represents Chaplin's cinematic infancy, the films he made for the Essanay Film Manufacturing Company are his adolescence.

Mutual - Chaplin Specials

Buoyed by his enormously successful comedies for Keystone and Essanay, he was offered the largest salary ever extended to a motion picture star.

How to Make Movies

An unreleased film from 1918, although parts were used in The Chaplin Revue (1959). Reconstructed in the 1980s

Filming A Dog's Life

From the moment he entered movies, Charles Chaplin knew that he needed total creative autonomy in order to make the kind of comedy of which he alone was capable...

Filming Shoulder Arms

Chaplin's friends were nervous of his next project, a comedy about the war, which was to become Shoulder Arms. Even Chaplin himself had momentary doubts...

Deleted Scenes from Shoulder Arms

These outtakes were discarded from Chaplin's 1918 silent comedy Shoulder Arms

Filming Sunnyside

In his autobiography, Chaplin recalled that making Sunnyside was "like pulling teeth". From time to time, like any artist, Chaplin experienced creative blocks; but this was one of the worst in his career...

Deleted scene from Sunnyside

Deleted barbershop sequence from Sunnyside

Filming A Day's Pleasure

A Day's Pleasure unusually shows Chaplin as the respectable father of a family and the proud owner of a Model-T Ford.

Filming The Kid

Many of Chaplin's admirers regard "The Kid" as his most perfect and most personal film

Nice and Friendly

An improvised sketch made in 1922

Filming Pay Day

Pay Day was Chaplin's last two-reeler, and again casts him in an unfamiliar role, as a working man and hen-pecked husband. It proved one of his most trouble-free productions and shooting was completed in one month...

Filming The Pilgrim

A gentle satire on small-town life and religion, with Chaplin as an escaped convict mistaken for the new pastor of a rural community...

The Professor

Is the unreleased film "The Professor" really "the major mystery in the Chaplin canon"?

Filming A Woman of Paris

A Woman of Paris was a courageous step in the career of Charles Chaplin...

Filming The Gold Rush

Charles Chaplin made "The Gold Rush" out of the most unlikely sources for comedy...

How The Gold Rush Was Made

As publicity man for his film, Chaplin hired Jim Tully, who was to achieve fame in the 20s as America's "hobo writer". This article by Tully appeared in the original English programme for The Gold Rush

The Music of The Gold Rush

Silent films were never truly silent: the live musical accompaniment provided in the theatres was a vital element of the cinema-going experience...

Art a la Carte

"The Gold Rush" press clipping from the Chaplin archives

Filming The Circus

The Circus won Charles Chaplin his first Academy Award - it was still not yet called the Oscar...

Filming City Lights

"City Lights" proved to be the hardest and longest undertaking of Chaplin's career...

Extract of draft typescript of "A Comedian Sees the World" by Charles Chaplin, 1932

"It took three weeks to synchronize my picture City Lights and I can assure you it was a most nerve-racking experience."

Deleted scene from City Lights

Charlie tries to disengage a sliver of wood stuck in a sidewalk grating

Filming Modern Times

Chaplin was acutely preoccupied with the social and economic problems of this new age. In 1931 and 1932 he had left Hollywood behind, to embark on an 18-month world tour. In Europe, he had been disturbed to see the rise of nationalism...

Deleted scene from Modern Times

Charlie tries to cross the street in this deleted scene from Modern Times

Filming The Great Dictator

By waging war against Hitler via the silver screen, Chaplin was making a personal commitment and, albeit with more gravitas, repeating the experience of Shoulder Arms...

Filming Monsieur Verdoux

Charles Chaplin, without modesty, described "Monsieur Verdoux" as "the cleverest and most brilliant film of my career"...

Planting the Seeds for Verdoux

Charlie was a lifelong admirer of what we now call "true crime" stories, as well as their real-life counterparts. Monsieur Verdoux simply allowed him to live out one of these stories on film...

Filming Limelight

Charles Chaplin made "Limelight" at the most troubled period of his adult career In the late 1940s, America's Cold War paranoia reached its peak...

Limelight and the Hollywood Ballet Fad

There seemed to be a sort of fad in the years following World War II of including ballet sequences in films...

"Charlie directed by action-by touch-and not with words"

A telephone interview with Julian Ludwig, who played a small role as one of the three buskers in Limelight

Filming A King in New York

With "A King in New York" Charles Chaplin was the first to expose, through satire, the paranoia which overtook the U.S in the 50s...

Review of "A Countess from Hong Kong"

"A Countess from Hong Kong has an underlying political context-two revolutions and American diplomacy-but its political perspective goes even deeper..."

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Charles Spencer Chaplin was born in London, England, on April 16th, 1889. His father was a versatile vocalist and actor; and his mother, known under the stage name of Lily Harley, was an attractive actress and singer, who gained a reputation for her work in the light opera field.