celebrity pic spam meme

i thought, i'd add another layer to the picspam. so, in addition to posting the according pictures of chaplin dressed in his civies, there will be one additional picture of him in costume. there's just no way to seperate the man from his creation.

1. Choose a picture of the funniest face on this person.

chaplin was a nut with a strange sense of humour. but that's why i like him. the second picture is from a little home movie that was shot in the set of the circus when the prince of wales popped round for a visit.

2. Post a picture of your person eating.

given his childhood, the man was obsessed with food. in pretty much all his films, there's at least one scene of him eating. strange that you hardly see this when he's out of costume. so the civi-pic is actually him in a mocumentary called how to make pictures where he plays himself.

3. Choose a picture of your person with an animal.

that one was very easy. in the studio he was pretty much constantly surrounded by the studio dogs. in the first picture he looks about twelve years old, but he was in his late twenties already! for a costume-picture, i could have easily gone for the circus of course. but that would have been too easy. so i chose a publicity shot from a dog's life instead.

4. Choose a picture of your person with a member of the opposite sex.

i mean, come on! when was he ever not surrounded by women?!? in the first picture he is accompanied by gloria swanson and marion davies. in the second picture, a publicity shot for the adventurer, he wears the same goofy grin while hanging onto cute, darling edna purviance. what is also very interesting, taking his size into consideration, he always managed to find a girl that was still shorter than he was. even when she was wearing heels!

5. Choose a picture where you would have sex with this person.

what's interesting in that respect is that civi-charlie was quite a dish and filled with a libido that was in danger of leaking from his ears, he had so much of it. on the other side, there's the tramp who is a very asexual figure. the little fellow is in love with falling in love. but it stops there. you see him kissing the girl, but you always get the impression that this is something like eating a bonbon and not forplay to something more raunchy. so yeah, what i'm getting at, i totally wouldn't hit on the tramp, but sometimes he appears still good looking, despite the 'stache. the still is taken from the vagabond where he looks almost his real age (27 or 28 years old) and his real self, even though he's wearing this heavy stage make-up.

6. Choose a picture of your favorite outfit on this person.

he was fab in fancy clothes! that's why i also opted for a promo-shot for monsieur verdoux.

7. Choose a picture of your person smiling.

this one was difficult. there are tons of pictures of him grinning from ear to ear, but just a regular, not over-the-top smile is rare. i bet this comes from his cultivation of the fake prop-grin which he had handy every time a camera was shoved in his face. the first picture is from a home movie called camille made by ralph barton. the second one was taken on the set of the gold rush and it shows him demonstrating the part of jack to the cast. (please note the actress on the right. she's a charming girl who played in a total of three of chaplin's films and then some. it's such a shame that she died at a very young age. i would have loved to see her in more productions!)

8. Choose a picture of your person half naked.

oh, dear. chaplin was a stringy little fellow with a large head. that's what years of malnourishment during childhood do for you. not as toned as buster keaton (who was astonishingly buff!), but that's what gave him his graceful movements. griffith didn't call him 'a fucking dancer' for no reason.