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A Question Causing Confusion by elina on 3 January 2008 6:13pm

Is it Charles or Charlie Chaplin? I used to say Charlie, now I say Charles, my sister still says Charlie and corrects me every time I say Charles. I think that they're both correct but could someone say which one appears in the titles of his films? The question kept me awake last night... Little detail, I know, but it bothers me.

Re: A Question Causing Confusion by tucsonmike on 3 January 2008 7:34pm

Tough question to keep u awake @ night, dearie. Charles is his official name, but in the movies, he was always known as Charlie.

Re: A Question Causing Confusion by Spursfan on 3 January 2008 8:47pm

My husband is a big Chaplin (and Laurel and Hardy) fan. He always calls him Charlie.

He has an authenticated autograph.

(I am happy with my 3 Bono autographs (one on a tambourine)!!)

Re: A Question Causing Confusion by MMMmmm... on 3 January 2008 10:45pm

*THat is very cool! Bono is one of my favorite men.* :)

Re: A Question Causing Confusion by mrsthing on 4 January 2008 12:03am

He apparently billed himself as either Charlie or Charles in his movies. But everybody I know calls him Charlie. Here's some info on him:

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000122/

A bit of trivia: Carol Cleveland had a bit part in his last movie (1967).

Re: A Question Causing Confusion by sighthound on 4 January 2008 12:05am

He was Charlie in public (a more user-friendly name in that era) and Charles in private.

Re: A Question Causing Confusion by MMMmmm... on 5 January 2008 12:45pm

I've been in a room where he spent the night... not at the same time! ;)
(And I didn't spend the night. It was at a ranch in California where someone I knew got married.)

Re: A Question Causing Confusion by Spursfan on 5 January 2008 2:25pm

I stayed in a hotel in California (forget the town - it was where Michael Jackson was in court?) where film stars stayed when filming. We stayed in Doris Day's room! The next day we went round the hotel and took photos of Marilyn Monroe's room and others - including Charlie's.

Oh yes, the town was Santa Maria.

Re: A Question Causing Confusion by elina on 5 January 2008 9:04pm

Oh thank you! Now I know it, I feel better. I just keep calling him Charles then. It sounds better in English pronounciation, in Finnish pronounciation Charlie sounds better. But then again in English pronounciation anything sounds better.

Re: A Question Causing Confusion by mrsthing on 5 January 2008 10:20pm

Santa Barbara, Anne. John Cleese lives there, too!

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