The following year, Hannah gave birth to a third son, George Wheeler Dryden, fathered by the music hall entertainer Leo Dryden. William Gillette co-wrote the Sherlock Holmes play with Arthur Conan Doyle, and had been starring in it since its New York opening in 1899.

Indian filmmaker Satyajit Ray said about Chaplin "If there is any name which can be said to symbolize cinema–it is Charlie Chaplin… I am sure Chaplin's name will survive even if the cinema ceases to exist as a medium of artistic expression. The controversy surrounding Chaplin increased when–two weeks after the paternity suit was filed–it was announced that he had married his newest protégée, 18-year-old Oona O'Neill, the daughter of American playwright Eugene O'Neill.In it, Chaplin demonstrated his increasing concern with story construction and his treatment of the Tramp as "a sort of Pierrot". She eventually divorced Chaplin in Mexico in 1942, citing incompatibility and separation for more than a year. ac] In his autobiography, Chaplin described meeting O'Neill as "the happiest event of my life", and claimed to have found "perfect love". controversies and fading popularity The Great Dictator Chaplin satirised Adolf Hitler in The Great Dictator (1940). It was a challenging production that lasted 21 months, [195] with Chaplin later confessing that he "had worked himself into a neurotic state of wanting perfection".

Good Riddance to Bad Company': Hedda Hopper, Hollywood Gossip, and the Campaign against Charlie Chaplin, 1940–1952". The Tramp defies authority figures [405] and "gives as good as he gets", [404] leading Robinson and Louvish to see him as a representative for the underprivileged–an " everyman turned heroic saviour". He initially refused to move to sound films in the 1930s, instead producing City Lights (1931) and Modern Times (1936) without dialogue.According to Chaplin, Hannah had been booed off stage and the manager chose him–as he was standing in the wings–to go on as her replacement. Chaplin's early years in music hall allowed him to see stage comedians at work; he also attended the Christmas pantomimes at Drury Lane, where he studied the art of clowning through performers like Dan Leno.

q] Despite this criticism, Chaplin was a favourite with the troops, [116] and his popularity continued to grow worldwide. At 16 years old, Chaplin starred in the play's West End production at the Duke of York's Theatre from October to December 1905. Between his time in the poor schools and his mother succumbing to mental illness, Chaplin began to perform on stage. In the early 1970s, Chaplin concentrated on re-releasing his old films, including The Kid and The Circus.In other tributes, a minor planet, 3623 Chaplin (discovered by Soviet astronomer Lyudmila Karachkina in 1981) is named after him. Speculation about Chaplin's racial origin existed from the earliest days of his fame, and it was often reported that he was a Jew. Stan Laurel, Chaplin's co-performer at the company, remembered that Karno's sketches regularly inserted "a bit of sentiment right in the middle of a funny music hall turn".

The first of these re-releases was The Chaplin Revue (1959), which included new versions of A Dog's Life, Shoulder Arms, and The Pilgrim.The negative reaction to Monsieur Verdoux was largely the result of changes in Chaplin's public image. The marriage ended in April 1920, with Chaplin explaining in his autobiography that they were "irreconcilably mismated". The Kid was in production for nine months until May 1920 and, at 68 minutes, it was Chaplin's longest picture to date. Ad campaigns for the scent featured models Shelley Hack, Charly Stember, and, notably, Naomi Sims, making Sims the first African American woman in history to be featured in a cosmetic company's advertising.