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Los 509 Chaplin Studios, Inc.

State of California, 2 December 1930, 1 Share of US-$ 100, #23, 21.9 x 40.2 cm, green, black, vertical folds, 1 cm tear, condition

VF+, revenue stamp, stamp cancelled,

signed by Alfred Reeves as President. R9. Only 7 shares of this variety are existing (num-

bers 11, 13, 16, 18, 23, 24, 25) R9.

Charles Chaplin jr. was born on 16 April 1889 to Hannah Harriet Chaplin and Charles Spencer Chaplin. At the time of his birth,

Chaplin’s parents were both entertainers in the music hall. Chaplin’s childhood was fraught with poverty and hardship. His early years

were spent with his mother and brother. Hannah had no means of income and Chaplin Sr. provided no support for his sons. Charlie

was first time on stage at the age of five years. When he was nine, he was engaged for the Music-Hall-Group The Eight Lancashire Lads.

The rise of Charlie Chaplin began, when he came to Fred Karno in 1908. Chaplin went with the Karno-Group to the United States and

Canada between 1910 and 1912. Chaplin left the Group by the end of 1913, when he stayed in the United States. He worked for several

studios. After a first film in Chicago, he moved to California. At this time Chaplin found his core crew with Leo White, Billy Armstrong,

Lloyd Bacon, Ben Turpin and Edna Purviance. He became the most famous film star in the world before the end of World War I. Cha-

plin used mime, slapstick and other visual comedy routines, and continued well into the era of the talkies, though his films decreased in

frequency from the end of the 1920s. His most famous role was that of The Tramp, which he first played in the Keystone comedy Kid

Auto Races at Venice in 1914. From the April 1914 one-reeler Twenty Minutes of Love onwards he was writing and directing most of his

films, by 1916 he was also producing them, and from 1918 he was even composing the music for them. With Mary Pickford, Douglas

Fairbanks and D. W. Griffith, he co-founded United Artists in 1919. Chaplin was one of the most creative and influential personalities of

the silent-film era. Chaplin was identified with left-wing politics during the McCarthy era and he was ultimately forced to resettle in Eu-

rope from 1952. He re-entered the USA in 1972, when he got an Oscar of honor. Chaplin died in Vevey, Switzerland at the age of 88

years on 25 December 1977.

Minimum bid: 1,700 €

Das Bild aus dem Jahr 1922 zeigt die Chaplin Studios in Hollywood,

in denen von 1918 bis 1952 alle Chaplin-Filme gedreht wurden.

A 1922 image of Charlie Chaplin Studios in Hollywood,

where all of Chaplin's films were produced between 1918 and 1952.

Nachahmer und Imitatoren wehren. So verklagte Chaplin im November 1917 mehrere Filmstudios, die mit Chaplin-Imitatoren zahlrei-

che Filme produziert hatten. Der bekannteste Imitator war Billy West, der in rund 50 Filmen auftrat. Auch Chaplins ehemaliger Kollege

bei Karno, Stan Jefferson, der spätere Stan Laurel, trat auf der Bühne als Chaplin auf. Nach Ablauf des Vertrags mit Mutual suchte Char-

les Chaplin einen neuen Partner, der ihm nicht nur die finanzielle, sondern auch die zeitliche Unabhängigkeit zur Vollendung seiner

Filme ermöglichte. Im Januar 1919 beschlossen Chaplin, die Schauspieler Douglas Fairbanks und Mary Pickford sowie der Regisseur D.

W. Griffith, einen unabhängigen Filmverleih zu gründen, um so einem drohenden Monopol der etablierten Studios entgegenzutreten.

Am 5. Februar wurden die Verträge für die Gründung von United Artists unterzeichnet. Am 15. Oktober 1940 war die Premiere von

Chaplins erstem Tonfilm Der große Diktator. Chaplins satirische Slapstick-Parodie auf den Faschismus richtete sich symbolisch auch

gegen die US-Staatsmacht und den Militarismus allgemein. Dieser Anti-Hitler-Film wurde zu einem der wirtschaftlich erfolgreichsten

Filme von Chaplin. Des Kommunismus verdächtigt, wurde ihm 1952 nach einem Auslandsaufenthalt die Rückkehr in die USA verwei-

gert. Er setzte in Europa seine Arbeit als Schauspieler und Regisseur fort. 1972 nahm er einen Ehren-Oscar für sein Lebenswerk entge-

gen und kehrte hierfür noch einmal in die USA zurück. Fünf Jahre später starb er mit 88 Jahren in seinem Schweizer Wohnort.

Mindestgebot: 1.700 €