My Autobiography (73 page)

30. Chaplin with Oona, Geraldine and Michael

31. Chaplin with his sons Charles and Sydney on the set of
Monsieur Verdoux
, 1947

32. With Claire Bloom in
Limelight
, 1952

33. With Dawn Addams in
A King in New York
, 1957

34. With Oona in Switzerland

35. With Michael, Josephine and Eugene

Abrams, Hiram, of United Artists,

300

Agee, Jim,
442
,
448
,
454

Aldershot: ‘a week of terror to

performers’,
18

Alexandra, Queen,
90

Alexandria Hotel and Bar (Los Angeles),
144
,
147
,
155
,
183
–4,

195
,
206

Alexandrov, Grigor,
319

Amarillo (Texas), C.’s reception at
175
–6

American Legion and
Monsieur
Verdoux
,
445

Anderson, Andy,
376

Anderson, G. M. (Bronco Billy),

160
–72
passim

Aragon, Louis,
464

Arbuckle, Roscoe (‘Fatty’),
143
,
146
,
155
230
–31,
270

Arthur, George K.,
270

Astor, Lord.
331

Athletic Club (Los Angeles), C.’s quarters in,
158
,
218
,
224
,
226
,
234

Aubrey (C.’s cousin),
264
,
279

Auriol, President Vincent,
461

Bali, C. in (‘a paradise’),
363
–6

ballet, C. and,
191
–3; in
Limelight
,

447

Balsan, Consuelo Vanderbilt,
350

Barrie, Sir James,
268
–9

Barry, Joan,
407
ff.

Barrymore, John,
258

Barton, Ralph (of the
New Yorker)
,
329
,
330
,
333
,
337
–41

Beach, Rex,
200

beauty, C.’s concept of,
351
–2,
448

Beaverbrook, Lord,
334

Beck, Martin,
121

Beddington-Behrens, Sir Edward,
467

Bell, Charlie (comedian),
92

Berlin, Irving,
324

Bernard, Sam,
256
–7

Bernhardt, Sarah,
194

Bernstein, Sydney,
467

Bernstorff, Count, and W. R. Hearst,
315

‘Bert Coutts’ Yankee-Doodle Girls’,
103
ff.

Beverly Hills, C.’s first impression of,
198

big-game fishing, C. and,
247
–8

Biograph Company,
129

biographies, C. on,
351

Birth of a Nation, The
,
173

birthplace, C.’s,
13

Black Dragon Society (Japan) and plot to kill C,
366
–70

Blackburn, C. in,
358

Blackmore’s Theatrical Agency,
77
–8

Bloom, Claire,
448

Bodie, ‘Dr’ Walford,
91
,
94

Boicette troupe (knockabout comedians),
92

Boissevain, Jan (Dutch industrialist),

246

Booth, Edwin (Amer, actor),
258

Boothby, Robert (later Lord Boothby),
334

Bouicicault, Dion,
90
–91

Boyle Heights (Los Angeles), Essanay studio at,
170
ff.

Bracken, Brendan,
334

Brady, ‘Diamond’ Jim,
155
–6

Brecht, Bertolt,
428

Breen office and
Monsieur Verdoux
,
429
ff.

Briand, Aristide,
352

Brice, Fanny,
257
,
318

Bridges, Harry (of the Longshoremen’s union),
392
–3

Brisbane, Arthur,
307
,
386

Broadway Melody, The
,
321

Bronco Billy:
see
Anderson,

G. M. Bulganin, C.’s meeting with,
467
–9

Burke, Thomas (Eng. writer), ‘at my best with’,
279

burlesque shows (U.S.A.),
126

Burnier, Madame Eileen, C.’s secretary,
465

Bushman, Francis X.,
165

Butte (Montana): ‘a Nick Carter town’,
127
,
134

Cadman, Charles,
225

Caine, Hall,
91

California, C.’s first impressions of,
128

reasons for film-makers’ choice,

157

Campbell, Mrs Pat,
257

Canada, C. in,
119
,
128

Canterbury Music Hall (London),

C’s father performs at,
15

C. plays at,
103

Capote, Truman,
473

Carmen
, C. burlesques De Mille’s

film of,
173
–4

Carnegie Hall, C.’s ‘second Front’

speech at,
404
–7

Carpentier, Georges,
273

Carter, Mrs Leslie (Amer, actress),

257

Caruso, Enrico, C. and,
181
–3

Casey’s Circus, C’s impersonations

in,
94

Catalina, C. at,
247
–8,
313
,
376

Catholicism, C’s early leanings towards,

44

Catholics’ antagonism to C. in U.S.A.,
441
–2,
445

Caught in the Rain
(C’s first film as director),
152

Caulfield, of the Mutual Film Corporation,
187
–8

celebrity, ‘something bogus about it?’,
177

C’s lessons from,
267

‘it could give me no more’,
279

censorship:
see
Breen office

Chaliapin, Fyodor,
357

Chaplin, Albert (C.’s uncle),
59

Chaplin, Charles (C.’s father),

C’s early memories of,
15
–16,
20

and Louise,
33
–40
passim; C
.

sees for last time,
58
; death and

funeral of,
59
–60

Chaplin, Charles, Junr (C.’s son),

283

Chaplin, Mrs (C’s mother),
14
ff.

passim;
stage career,
17
–20

struggle with poverty and ill-

health,
23
ff.; admitted to mental institution;
33
,
69
,
74
–5,
81
,
88
,

132
; goes to California,
249
,

281
–2; death,
283
–4

Chaplin, Spencer (C’s uncle),
39

Chaplin, Sydney (C’s brother),
10
,

13
,
16
,
23
,
26
–40,
51
,
54
,
67
,
73
,

74
,
81
,
82
,
85
–8,
92
,
98
,
99
,
100
–

102
; joins Keystone Co.,
157
,

159
; takes over C’s business

affairs,
172
ff.; on mergers,
220

with C. in Japan,
362
ff.; success

and retirement,
348

Chaplin, Sydney (C.’s son),
283

Chaplinesque
(Hart Crane’s poem),
246

Charcoate (vaudeville hypnotist),

97
–8

Chartwell (home of Sir Winston

Churchill),
333
–5

chase, the (in comedy films),

‘I hated it’,
143
; Lehrman’s

addiction to,
148

Chekhov, Anton, and emotion in the theatre,
252

Cherrill, Virginia,
323

Chicago,

C’s first impressions of,
125
–7;

Essanay studio at,
161
,
164

crowds greet C. at,
177

children, C’s,
235
,
284
,
448

children as actors, C. on,
232

Chou En-Iai, C. and,
471
–2

Churchill, Randolph,
333

Chirchill, Sir Winston,
332
–5,
337
,

469
–70

City Lights
,
208
,
209
,
322
–9,
337
,

373

Clarissa
(Wm. Gillette’s play),
89

91

Clark, Bert,
225

Clark, William A. (railroad magnate),
185
–6

class distinctions, C.’s views on,
133

clergy, C’s opinion of the,
339

clog-dancing, as C’s first stage

work,
42
–4

close-up (film technique), C. on the,
152