Charlie Chaplin’s Son Confesses the Hard Truth About His Father

Do you enjoy silent films? Who’s your favorite silent star? Charlie Chaplin was one of the few who managed to last into and past the “talkie” era. His name is known throughout the world even today.
He’s well-known but in a different way than most. It’s like he was always wearing a mask and the world rarely saw behind it.

▬Contents of this video▬
00:00 - Intro
00:24 - Being Charlie Chaplin’s Son
02:11 - Being Michael
04:26 - Writing A Novel
06:12 - Being Charlie’s Other Children or Wife
08:20 - Outro

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His characters were his mask. They presented him as a hilarious comedic genius. His other face was the one that made him as infamous as he was famous. He rarely took time away from his work to show it, but the ones closest to him saw it.

Charlie was known for being a ladies' man and rumors of his sexual exploits spread. He also tended to have an eye for much younger women. Several of his brides were teenagers, and he only married some of them because they got pregnant. Co-stars reported that he was a control freak who had to manage every little detail on stage. He couldn’t seem to get over that when he was at home. Many of his wives reported that he was cruel to them.

He also had many children. They provide the final piece of the puzzle. What do they think of their father? What do they remember of the few moments they got to spend with him? At least one of them is willing to speak out. He may be the one who got to spend the most personal time with him. They weren’t always close, but he got to see behind the mask for a better picture of who Charlie really was.

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Charlie Chaplin’s Son Confesses the Hard Truth About His Father

[sjk]

I read Charlie’s autobiography, biography, seen the documentary, watched interviews with his kids, and watched the biopic with Robert Downey Jr.: no father is perfect no matter what!

My grandfathers drank and smoked and did who knows what else with my parents! No grandparents are meant to be the most perfect!

[ritahorvath]

His life in Switzerland with
Oona was wonderful. When
you visit his house you can
still feel the love and the
good vibrations .

[jayclarke]

It sounds like Charlie although no saint was far better towards his children than that bastard Bing Crosby. From what I've read and heard about how Crosby treated his four sons, the sob should have been locked up! Apparently two of them committed suicide!

[HonestlyYours]

I first became aware of Charlie Chaplin, when, in 1972, he was finally awarded an honorary Oscar at the Academy Awards that year. But I actually fell in love with his movies in the summer of 1974, when there was a "Charlie Chaplin Festival" on television, featuring most of his best-known movies. In those days there was very little criticism of his rather scandalous private life. Instead, he was highly praised as a great actor and comedian. His death on Christmas Day of 1977 was marked by big, black front page headlines on the following day. I was rather shocked at the terrible way that he was treated by the American federal government in 1952 and pretty well forced into exile in Switzerland or face prison time in the United States. I did read his autobiography, published in 1964, and found it very interesting, especially when I read about his absolutely horrendous childhood in London, England.

[jonesy]

You must watch the movie “Chaplin” starring Robert Downey Jr. If you have not seen it already! He should have gotten an Oscar for this movie! It is totally wonderful and tells the whole story of Chaplin.

[rongendron]

I'm the same age as Chaplin's son, Michael, i.e. 77 & at age 3, in 1949 ( before my family had a t.v)., my Dad bought
a cheap 16 mm projector with two films! One was a Charlie Chaplin comedy, which we watched numerous times!
As a child, I knew Chaplin came from a foreign country & since his films were 'silent', I thought that he couldn't speak
English! Little did I realize then, that I was watching one of, if not the most unique talent from the "Silent Era" of movies!

[wardarcade]

7:08- Incredibly enough in Chaplin's own autobiography, he said he'd met the 16-year-old Mildred Harris at a party that she got bored with and asked him to take her home- and THAT is when they had intercourse. Yep, he concluded that just because she wanted him to take her home that that meant she'd given him her consent! Sadly, towards the end of their brief marriage, they'd had a son in 1919 who died after three days of evident birth disabilities that Chaplin announced in a bulletin in his studio had been named Norman Spencer Chaplin then buried under an epitaph that read only 'The Little Mouse' -and that was ALL that was ever disclosed about his firstborn marital son who he made no mention of in his autobiography. Not unlike how decades later the singer-composer Prince would go to a great deal of trouble to keep his own tragic son Amiir's life and death a secret.

[niloufartorabi]

Come on people! Don't be so jealous 😂 if you were chaplin you've done much much more than he did! A genius whom the whole cinema industry and audience are owed to, an incomparable artist. His personal life is only related to himself and his family. If you can not be grateful of such an artist, just do your own business and try not to be that bad😂 in your own personal lives!!!

[MrLookitspam]

My father was not famous other than in his circle of friends. And at home me he was a wholly different man than in his life outside our hone. And it was a very severe person a at home. In public he was very Ward Clever.

[lisag]

Marlon Brando was critical of Charles Chaplin when he heard (he was standing next to Chaplin when it happened) how he treated his son.
He was not a nice person

[brez-eddd]

Michael Chaplin was great in that film.

[bruceglover]

Charlie Chaplin was a force . He was talented and driven . He wouldn't be stopped and therefore achieved much . Other people for the most part, didn't matter to him . 12 kids is a lot, 2000 woman is a devastatation . He was an unrestricted person, clever, cunning talented . One of a kind

[EM-lzkg]

Still lucky to being brought up in a loving family

[Nina]

Poor sod. The son of a hard working man who brought laughter to the world - the WHOLE world. His father had a hard upbringing - we all know the story. Why would Michael have any say in his father’s past loves (yeah we know). Nothing to do with him His mum and dad were so happy. There’s no mention of his maternal Grandfather (a FAMOUS author), nor his paternal grandmother (a lady with mental health problems). Yes we hear of famous people having messed up children, but Charlie also deep down never thought he was ‘good enough’. I recently watched The Real Charlie Chaplin film/documentary and it is wonderful. The clips of the tramp are so very, very funny. The narrator here mentions the film yet doesn’t tell us that Jane Chaplin DID have that conversation with her dad. Geraldine is a successful and wonderful actress. I found it odd that one of the wives who Chaplin divorced in the 1930s, still had his name later in life. If he was that awful why keep his name?. The FBI and communist hunts treated Chaplin and others dreadfully . Charlie was a genius, a troubled one too. His son was obviously troubled too, but honestly just get a job mate. We’ve all had troubled childhoods me included, you get on, work and make a life for yourself. I didn’t have a famous name or money for my start in my life.

[madhatyr]

Only actor to be recognized by his silhouette!? Alfred Hitchcock?

[soniapaterson]

Its pretty shocking to learn about Chaplin and the younger women in his life. Back then things were different and thankfully the world has evolved. The last wife must have loved him to have eight children and can anyone really know what goes on between two people?

[Westyrulz]

Its easy to blame others for your own failures.

[ismailmayet]

I think he had ten kids I was close enough so he had one more

[UPalooza]

James Bond can be recognized from his silhouette

[harryc]

Guys like this job need a regular job and life, his Dad was lightning in a bottle it does not necessarily pass down to you kids.