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Also by Richard Schickel:

You Must Remember This, September 2008
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The Essential Chaplin, August 2006
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THE ESSENTIAL CHAPLIN
By: Richard Schickel

Perspectives on the Life and Art of the Great Comedian

Ivan R. Dee
August 2006
Featuring: Charlie Chaplin
320 pages
ISBN: 1566637015
EAN: 9781566637015
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Non-Fiction Biography

In this collection of some thirty essays, Richard Schickel has selected the most provocative and insightful criticisms of Chaplin's life and work, from the great comedian's beginnings through his early features, his mid-life crisis, and his late films. Mr. Schickel, the last critic to study Chaplin intensively (for his award-winning documentary film of a year ago), offers a long Introduction.

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