after him and his brother, they often went into workhouses like the building we are in right now was a workhouse where charlie chaplin stayed. and these early experiences clearly never left him. both of chaplin s parents were musical entertainers. and it is said that he got his first experience on stage at the age of five, when he sang a song as a replacement for his mother when she was unable to perform. but as a friend of chaplin s mother recalls, they were desperate times. she used to come to my place every sunday, and charlie would come and have tea with me. she got a little bit of a sandwich, she was very poor, you know a little sandwich that she d save for him to take home. she thought he didn t get enough to eat. performing seemed to be his only constant, and he achieved some degree of success at the age of ten as part of a touring clog dancing troupe called the eight lancashire lads. it was definitely about making ends meet, finding a way of feeding yourself.
nervous breakdowns. he was brought up by basically a single mother, him and his half brother sydney. when she couldn t look after him and his brother, they often went into workhouses like the building we are in right now was a workhouse where charlie chaplin stayed. and these early experiences clearly never left him. both of chaplin s parents were musical entertainers. and it is said that he got his first experience on stage at the age of five, when he sang a song as a replacement for his mother when she was unable to perform. but as a friend of chaplin s mother recalls, they were desperate times. she used to come to my place every sunday, and charlie would come and have tea with me. she got a little bit of a sandwich, she was very poor, you know a little sandwich that she d save for him to take home. she thought he didn t get enough to eat. performing seemed to be his only constant, and he achieved some degree of success at the age of ten as part of a touring clog dancing troupe c
and have tea with me. she got a little bit of a sandwich, she was very poor, you know a little sandwich that she d save for him to take home. she thought he didn t get enough to eat. performing seemed to be his only constant, and he achieved some degree of success at the age of ten as part of a touring clog dancing troupe called the eight lancashire lads. it was definitely about making ends meet, finding a way of feeding yourself. but he was talented, he was recognised when he was about 12 or 13 years old, on the west end stage, he plays a dog and this wasn t in the script but he lifted his leg and the whole audience laughed. this kind of defined his comedy in some ways. because if you watch chaplin, when he enters the scene, he immediately does a bit of business. something that is funny. and i think that comes from a sense of maybe desperation is not the right word, but anxiety and understanding about comedy, but also lying