Tramp: The Life of Charlie Chaplin [NOOK Book]

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Charlie Chaplin made an amazing seventy-one films by the time he was only thirty-three years old. He was not only known as the world’s first international movie star, but as a comedian, film director, and a man ripe with scandal, accused of plagiarism, communism, pacifism, liberalism, and anti-Americanism. He seduced young women, marrying four different times, each time to a woman younger than the next. In this animated biography of Chaplin, Joyce Milton reveals to us a life riddled with gossip and a struggle to ...
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Overview

Charlie Chaplin made an amazing seventy-one films by the time he was only thirty-three years old. He was not only known as the world’s first international movie star, but as a comedian, film director, and a man ripe with scandal, accused of plagiarism, communism, pacifism, liberalism, and anti-Americanism. He seduced young women, marrying four different times, each time to a woman younger than the next. In this animated biography of Chaplin, Joyce Milton reveals to us a life riddled with gossip and a struggle to rise from an impoverished London childhood to the life of a successful American film star. Milton shows us how the creation of his famous character – The Tramp, the Little Fellow – was both rewarding and then devastating as he became obsolete with the changes of time. Tramp is a perceptive, clever, and captivating biography of a talented and complicated man whose life was filled with scandal, politics, and art.
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Editorial Reviews

- Kirkus
“[A] masterful portrait of the artist as a swine…Milton presents a complex, insightful portrait of a man in whom genius and iniquity were inseparably combined.”
Chicago Tribune
“Fair, balanced, and highly readable…Milton has provided…a more complete view of his time in America than any previous biographer.”
Philadelphia Inquirer
“Compelling and provocative…The beam of limelight that Milton shines on Chaplin exposes much.”
Publisher's Weekly
“Substantial…[A] well-researched, evenhanded portrait of a troubled entertainment genius…Milton’s clear rendering of one of the first film superstars, and of the fickle public scrutiny that followed him, doubles…as a sweeping look at the first half of the 20th century.”
Washington Times
“Tramp is the best Hollywood biography I have ever read; beautifully written, painstakingly researched, unblinkingly shrewd in pursuit of Chaplin’s labyrinthine personality, and an analysis of the comedic art that is itself funny – a literary accomplishment even rarer than sexy sex scenes.”
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Product Details

  • BN ID: 2940013223486
  • Publisher: Premier Digital Publishing
  • Publication date: 10/26/2011
  • Sold by: Barnes & Noble
  • Format: eBook
  • Sales rank: 271,123
  • File size: 8 MB

Meet the Author

In addition to this title, JOYCE MILTON is the author of LOSS OF EDEN: A Biography of Charles and Anne Morrow Lindburgh, THE YELLOW KIDS: Foreign Correspondents in the Heyday of Yellow Journalism, THE ROSENBERG FILE (with Ronald Radosh) and VICKI (with Anne Bardash).
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  • Anonymous

    Posted July 14, 2012

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  • Posted May 14, 2012

    Very dry read that gives you information much like an encyclopedia.

    This is a very dry historical view of Charlie Chaplin's life. It reads like an encyclopedia instead of a novel or biography. There is not emotion and no heart to this book. Although Chaplin had an interesting life, it didn't show through this book.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 16, 2012

    Do not read this book if you want to know the real Chaplin!

    During the entire duration of this "biography", you can tell that yeah some of these facts may be true, but the entire tone of the book seems like Milton has a bone to pick with Chaplin and shes making him seem like a horrid person. Read David Robinson's "Chaplin". Its MUCH more factual and not as attacking.

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