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Charlie Chaplin: Intimate Close-ups: 44
Author(s): Georgia Hale (Author), Heather Kiernan
- Publisher: Scarecrow Press (UK)
- Publication Date: 28 Sept. 1995
- Edition: Revised ed.
- Language: English
- Print length: 272 pages
- ISBN-10: 1578860040
- ISBN-13: 9781578860043
Book Description
Seventy years after the films appearance, Heather Kiernan brings Georgia Hale back to life in this edition of her hitherto unpublished memoirs. Research work embodied in her perceptive introduction clears up many uncertainties about Hales life and provides an outline of her most significant years.
Hales own chief purpose was to describe her long and close relationship with Chaplin and his dual personality, which made the relationship at times a love-hate one. As Chaplins constant companion during the years 1928-1931, she became a part of his social circle, meeting people as diverse as Marion Davies, Sergei Eisenstein, Ralph Barton, and Albert Einstein. The memoir effectively ends with Chaplins marriage in June 1943 to Oona ONeill.
This unique book contains illustrations from the Chaplin archive, most of which are published here for the first time.
Editorial Reviews
Review
…highly interesting…
…excellent historical and biographical reference. Recommended for film biography collections.
Hale”s book does corroborate other accounts of Chaplin”s working methods and demeanor, and testifies to the intense devotion he could inspire in others.
…always delightful…manages to dance off the page with wonderful revelations of the charm and grandeur of Hollywood (and Chaplin) in the Twenties.
The reader is rewarded with pieces of Chaplin”s life not to be found elsewhere…in context the overall cumulative effect of the book is winning, and Georgia”s personality comes through as warm and very appealing.
