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Australia Day Movie Poster Auction the world has ever seen...January 26,
2015.
*Charlie Chaplin's The Gold Rush (1925) - An Original Australian Long
Daybill**; /believed to be the only/*/*Australian poster for this title
to come up up for auction*/.
Charles Spencer Chaplin was born in London in 1889; his mother, part
Irish, part Spanish, was playing there in a stock company. His father
was a small-time music hall favourite. Chaplin father died of natural
causes, and his widow (known to the boards as Lily Harley) went into
dressmaking, and taught Charles and his brother Sidney to hem flounces
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruffle>.
At 13 however, he was taking juvenile parts. A British critic hailed him
as a baby wonder. A year later he was playing with William Gillette in
"Sherlock Holmes." He got a part in a vaudeville skit, "A Night in an
English Music Hall," and toured the U.S.A. In 1914 the Keystone Film
Corporation enlisted his services for 40 dollars a week.
His first efforts to be funny in celluloid were dismal. Keystone
directors, fearing that he was overpaid, offered to cancel the contract.
But one day Chaplin told Roscoe Arbuckle that he needed a pair of shoes
Arbuckle tossed him a pair of his own enormous brogues. "There you are,
man," he said; "perfect fit!" Chaplin put them on, cocked his battered
Derby over his ear, and twisted the ends of his prim moustache. His face
was very sad. He attempted a jaunty walk, which became, inevitably, a
heart-breaking waddle. He put his hand on the seat of his trousers, spun
on his heel. Arbuckle told him that he was almost funny...
*The Gold Rush*, was released in the USA in June of 1925 (there is
evidence that suggest it was being released in London in April 1925?)
and played around Australia from late 1925 enjoying it's first Melbourne
release in May 1926.
This silent comedy film was written, produced, directed by and starred
Charlie Chaplin in his Little Tramp role, Chaplin declared several times
that this was the film for which he most wanted to be remembered. In its
original 1925 release, The Gold Rush was generally praised by critics
and although a silent film, it received an Academy Awards nomination for
Best Sound Recording when Chaplin re-released it with a new sound track
in 1942.
Please enjoy your sneak peak at this fabulous poster (could this be an
advance movie poster?) which will be auctioned on www.Bidll.com on
January 26th 2015; I've also included a copy of an advert for the film I
dug up, published in Jan 1926 in The Mirror (Western Australia).
Register today <http://bidll.com/Account/Register> for Bidll's world
famous Australia Day auction.
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*David Rew
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