My Autobiography (75 page)
Authors: Charles Chaplin
film),
166
His Night Out
(C’s Essanay film),
169
His Prehistoric Past
(C’s Keystone film),
154
,
160
Hitler, Adolf,
W. R. Hearst’s interview with,
316
; C’s view of,
316
; as idea for
The Great Dictator
,
386
hog-raising, C. considers,
125
Hollywood,
as Mecca for writers,
200
; ‘every-one in the hotel looked lost’,
‘Honest Joe’:
see
Schenck, Joe
Honeysuckle and the
Bee
,
The
(song), C. and,
37
Hong Kong, C. in,
379
Hoover, Edgar,
419
Hopkins, Harry,
393
hop-picking, C’s brother goes,
Horns, the (public house, Kenning-ton),
9
,
97
; C revisits,
265
Horowitz, Vladimir,
390
horses, C’s attitude to,
199
,
271
House of All Nations (Chicago brothel),
Hughes, Howard,
186
humour, C. on,
148
; distinction
from comedy,
210
Huxley, Aldous,
428
hypnotism, C. and,
169
–70
Hyton, Charlie,
296
–7
Ibanez, Blasco,
200
Idle Class, The
(C’s film),
258
–9
Immigrant, The
(C’s film),
208
Ince, Thomas,
156
,
294
; death of,
313
–14
Inge, the Very Rev. W. R. (Dean Inge), G. B. Shaw’s anecdote on,
Ingersoll, R.: ‘his
Essays and Lectures
an exciting discovery’,
134
intellect and emotion in the theatre,
C. on,
250
ff.
Irving, Sir Henry,
C. at funeral of,
91
; and Nat Goodwin,
174
; ‘noble, sensitive’,
258
.
Irving, Washington, C. and works of,
135
Ivan the Terrible
:’the acme of all historical pictures’,
320
Jack Jones
(music-hall song), C. and,
18
Jackson family (of the Eight Lancashire Lads),
43
ff.,
349
Jail Birds
(Karno sketch),
92
Jeffers, Robinson,
384
Jim, the Romance of a Cockney
H. A. Saintsbury’s melodrama),
C.’s part in,
77
–81
Johnson, Dr Hewlett, C’s view of,
339
joke-book, C. uses a,
95
Jolson, Al, C. on
256
Joyce, Peggy Hopkins,
293
–4
Karno, Fred,
73
,
92
,
116
; as a comedian,
98
;
engages C. for Harry
popularity of his shows in
America,
121
; C. on his house
boat,
133
Karno, Fred, Junr,
140
Kay Kay (C.’s children’s nurse),
466
Kelly, Arthur (Hetty’s brother),
137
,
263
Kelly, Hetty, C. and,
103
–7,
115
–16,
259
,
263
Kendal, Mr and Mrs, C. turns down a part with,
91
Kessel, Charles,
138
–9
Kessel and Bauman (Amer, film producers),
138
,
159
Keynes, John Maynard,
331
Keystone Film Company, C. joins,
138
ff.; ‘a wrench leaving’,
161
;
see also
Sennett,
Mack. For list of films
see
p.
478
Khrushchev, Nikita, C’s meeting with,
467
–9
Kid, The
,
230
–35; C.’s disagreement
with First National over,
237
;
proclaimed a classic’,
249
–50
Kinsey-Taylor, Dr, C. as pageboy to,
61
Kitchen, Fred (comedian),
92
Kitchener, Field Marshal Lord, C. and,
91
Klieg lights,
157
Knoblock, Edward,
260
,
261
,
268
,
269
,
272
knowledge, C.’s motives for ‘passionately wanting’,
134
Kono (C’s Japanese secretary),
366
ff.
passim
Korda, Sir Alexander,
386
Lambeth Workhouse,
25
–7
Larkin, Jim,
280
–81
Laski, Harold,
341
Laughing Gas
, C. directs for Keystone,
157
Lawson, John,
429
Legion of Decency, and
Monsieur
Verdoux,
429
,
438
;
see also
Breen office.
Legion of Honour, C. as member of, 275,
353
Lehrman, Henry (Keystone film director),
144
; ‘thought I knew too much’,
145
; ‘mutilated my funny business’,
145
,
148
‘Lestock, the Dashing Eva’,
56
–7
Lewis, Sinclair,
408
Liberty Bond Drives (U.S.A.), C.
and the,
213
–17
life, C’s views on,
199
–200,
206
,
210
,287,2
90
Lillie, Beatrice,
303
Lipton, Sir Thomas,
310
–11
literature, C.’s interest in,
48
,
244
;
see also
entries for individual
authors
Lloyd, Harold,
171
Lloyd, Marie,
47
Locke, William J.,
200
Lockhart’s tea rooms (London), C.’s memories of,
62
London, C.’s early life in,
13
ff.;
revisits the old homes in,
259
if.
London Topical Times
, C.’s good notice in,
81
loneliness, C. and,
82
,
137
,
177
,
287
,
372
,
375
,
426
; ‘it is repellent’,
180
; ‘much has been written
about my loneliness’,
266
Louis Ferdinand, grandson of the Kaiser,
373
Louise (C.’s father’s mistress),
33
–40,
87
love affairs, C.’s,
41
,
103
ff.,
134
,
156
,
352
,
354
–6,
361
Lucas, E. V.,
268
Luce, Clare Boothe,
448
–9
Ludwig, Emil,
351
Lusitania
, s.s., sinking of the,
212
Mabel’s Strange Predicament
(C.’s
early Keystone film),
148
–9
McCarthy family (Kenningtonneighbours),
11
,
66
–8
McCormick, Anne O’Hare,
396
MacDonald, Malcolm,
337
Mack, Charlie,
198
McKay, Claude (Jamaican poet),
280
Madison’s Budget
(Amer, joke-book),
95
Maeterlinck, Madame,
260
Male and Female
(De Mille film),
173
Malone, Dudley Field,
244
,
246
,
403
Manchester: ‘cataleptic’ on Sunday,
358
–9
Manoir de Ban (C.’s home in Switzerland),
465
Manon, Charlie, C.’s brother joins troupe,
92
Mao Tse-tung,
472
Marceline (French clown),
45
–6;
suicide,
46
Marriage Circle, The
(Lubitsch film),
295
Mary, Queen, inspiration for her
doll’s house,
272
Masefield, John,
303
Maugham, W. Somerset,
200
; C. on
quotation of C.’s comments,
Maxwell, Elsa,
276
Mayer, Louis B., and Mildred
Harris’s contract,
229
Mead, Senator James M.,
405
Meighan, Thomas,
202
; and Edna
Purviance,
204
–5
Melba, Dame Nellie,
191
Menjou, Adolphe,
295
mergers of film-producing companies,
220
–221
Merry Major, The
(sketch), C. plays
juvenile lead in,
97
‘Method’ school of acting, C. on
the,
254
–5
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Co.,
229
;
and Hearst Productions,
314
Meyer, Walter (Einstein’s assistant),
316
‘million-dollar carpet’, the (Alexandria Hotel,
Los Angeles),
183
–4
millionaires, C. on,
306
Miracle, The
(Reinhardt’s spectacle),
Miss Priscilla’s Cat
(C.’s comedy
recitation, as a boy),
41
Mr Perkins, M.P
. (Karno sketch),
Mizner, Wilson,
217
Modern Times
,
209
; original idea
for,
3
77
–8; ‘a great success’,
382
Molnár, Erik, and emotion in the
theatre,
252
money, C. and,
‘like an avalanche… frightening’,
174
; ‘it all seemed slightly mad’,
‘the delights of,
261
Monsieur Verdoux
,
412
–13,
426
;censorship and,
429
ff.; sequences
from script of,
430
–36; opening
of,
443
–4
Monterey, Carlotta,
155
Moore, Alexander,
311
Moore, George,
448
–9
Morgan, Anne (daughter of J. P. Morgan),
272
–3,
275
–6
Morris, Gouverneur,
200
; on The
Kid
,
233
–4
Mirros, William (Amer, theatre-owner),
121
; C. at his
42
nd Street
theatre,
129
Morrison, Herbert,
459
Mosley, Sir Oswald,
350
–51
Mountbatten, Lord,
470
Mumming Birds
(Karno sketch),
92
; C. in,
103
,
116
Munnings, Sir Alfred,
331
–2
Murray, Philip,
404
music,
‘I had great ambitions’,
125
; as creator of C.’s moods and themes,
209
> C. composes for his films,
325
musicians, C. on,
389
–90
Mutual Film Corporation, C. joins,
177
–9; his films for,
187
,
479
Nast, Condé,
243
National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, C.’s plight reported to,
39
Nazism, C.’s hatred for,
398
–9,
406
–7,
411
Nehru, Pandit Jawaharlal,
470
–71
New Janitor, The
(C.’s Keystone film),
154
New York, C. in,
119
–24; ‘this is where I belong!’
121
;
177
,
178
,
191
,
306
,
327
; ‘stepping on air in’,
243
Nichols, ‘Pop’ (Keystone film director): ‘had but one gag’,
149
Night at the Club, A
(Karno sketch), C. plays the ‘drunk’ in,
139
; Ellsworth says ‘very funny’,
147
Night In an English Musk Hall, A
(Karno sketch): ‘tremendous success’ in U.S.A.,
129
Nijinsky, Vaslav,
191
–3
Niles (California), C. at Essanay studios at,
161
,
167
–70
Noailles, Countess,
352
Normand, Mabel,
138
,
141
,
143
,
145
,
146
; C. rebels against direction by,
149
–51; ‘we remained only good friends’,
155
Norn’s. Kathleen,
200
Odets, Clifford,
428
Old Testament, C. on ‘horrific cruelty’ of the,
134
Olivier, Laurence, Shakespeare in ‘white tie and tails’,
254
