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Chaplinoia
1917. A’s war rages in Europe, the F.B.I. Are hunting the killer of Charlie Chaplin.
Chaplin’s career has cross-crossed with the rise of film to make him the first global star. Chaplin-fever rages; Charlie dolls, lookalike contests- even the tramps are copying the look immortalised in ‘The Tramp’. There are Chaplin’s everywhere.
Comedian Arthur Dandoe is sick with his own kind of Chaplin-fever. His bitter rivalry with Chaplin, stretching back to their early days in music halls, has spun out of control. It’s lost him his career, his family. Now it could lose him his life.
In Chaplinoia, history and mystery collide against a backdrop of bogus cowboys, fake news and killer ostriches. And it’s all true. Almost.
Chaplin’s career has cross-crossed with the rise of film to make him the first global star. Chaplin-fever rages; Charlie dolls, lookalike contests- even the tramps are copying the look immortalised in ‘The Tramp’. There are Chaplin’s everywhere.
Comedian Arthur Dandoe is sick with his own kind of Chaplin-fever. His bitter rivalry with Chaplin, stretching back to their early days in music halls, has spun out of control. It’s lost him his career, his family. Now it could lose him his life.
In Chaplinoia, history and mystery collide against a backdrop of bogus cowboys, fake news and killer ostriches. And it’s all true. Almost.
510 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 2018
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November 26, 2021
This book has been great and made me look at some of my early Chaplin movie's with fresh eyes.
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