Something about Chaplin Trivia Quiz

Answer: Modern Times

Charlie Chaplin ended the movie with a pantomime song that combined gibberish from several languages. When published overseas, "Modern Times" had a footnote that the song meant gibberish and should not be translated.

Answer: The Gold Rush

Charlie Chaplin put great emphasis on the music of his films, and the premiere performance of The Gold Rush in 1925 had a score compiled by Carli D. Elinor, one of the most distinguished musical directors for silent films. In 1942, when Chaplin decided to reissue "The Gold Rush", he composed an entirely new score with Max Terr, another well-known popular musician.

Answer: The Circus

Compared to other Chaplin's movies, The Circus does not contain the same levels of social realism, making it a great laugh-provoker. The two years spent in production, however, were some of the most difficult ones for Chaplin. His hair turned from slightly silver to fully white.

A fire destroyed his vast circus-tent set and the water used to quench the fire ruined the costumes/props, while a laboratory error rendered the first month's footage unusable. His private life underwent great upheaval too, from mourning the death of his mother to divorcing his second wife, Lita Grey.

But The Circus was an instant hit, taking in more than $3.8 million, and ranking as the seventh highest grossing silent film in 1932.

Answer: Kid Auto Races at Venice

Only 6 minutes and 19 seconds long, this "movie" can only be considered as a video clip in today's jargon. Mabel's Strange Predicament, another silent film about 17 minutes that featured The Tramp, was shot a few days before Kid Auto Races at Venice. It, however, was released two days later.

This movie was shot in real time during the Junior Vanderbilt Cup with Chaplin improvising in front of real-life spectators. Chaplin, as one of the spectators at the baby-cart race, kept getting into the way of the camera, annoying the spectators and the general public. Utilizing two camera viewpoints, the film switches between the spectator view and the news-film camera view.

Answer: Directing a Feature Film

"Shoulder Arms", aired in 1918, was the first and shortest feature film Chaplin directed. Until then, it was his best, both critically and commercially. This film is in a sense, the foreshadowing of what Chaplin could do, as seen in "The Great Dictator". Most feature films last 60-80 minutes, but this one only plays for 46 minutes.
Although not in his usual Tramp attire, Chaplin is still very recognizable and comedic. "Shoulder Arms" also starred his brother, Sydney Chaplin, as the Kaiser (whom Chaplin captured in his dream).

Answer: No

In "City Lights", Chaplin made friends with the rich man FIRST, the girl second, and gets thrown into jail last.

Filmed between 1928 to 1930, "City Lights" is considered by many as the greatest accomplishment of Chaplin's career and one of the greatest films of all time. "City Lights" was also the first movie for which Chaplin composed the film score.

Answer: The Kid

Later the kid, John, falls sick and the doctor discovers that Chaplin was not the real father. The doctor alerts the authorities and agents come to take John to the orphanage. One of the famous snapshots of the movie was when the kid stood in the pickup with his arms outstretched, crying.
Five years after Chaplin took the child in, the mother of the child had become famous (and rich). She placed an advertisement of a $1000 reward for whoever that found his son. Someone notified the police, who came and took the child away. Eventually, Chaplin and the child get reunited.

Answer: Immigrant

One of the shorter romantic comedies of Chaplin, "The Immigrant" only lasts 22 minutes. It tells of Chaplin (as the Tramp) getting accused of robbery when he only wants to secretly put his winnings from a card game into the pocket of the woman who is robbed by a pickpocket.

After he arrives in America, he finds a coin lying on the street. He picks it up and puts it in his pocket (so many pockets!) without realizing that his pocket has a hole in it. He goes and orders a meal only to find out that he has lost his money.

Theatrics to get the needed money ensue, and Chaplin finally pays his bill by using the tip of someone else for the waiter.

Answer: Dictator named Adenoid Hynkel

In "The Great Dictator", Chaplin plays Adenoid Hynkel, who is portrayed as a parody of Adolf Hitler. Hynkel is the Dictator of Tomania (Germany) and the leader of the Nami Party of the Double Cross. He looks similar to the Jewish barber too. Thus, Hynkel's own soldiers mistake him for the Jewish barber when he goes out duck hunting while others mistake the Jewish barber for Hynkel, "compelling" him to give a speech, in which he pleads for brotherhood and goodwill.

In his autobiography, Chaplin said that he would not have made this movie if he had known the scope of the horrors of the Nazi camps.

Answer: A Countess from Hong Kong

"A Countess in Hong Kong" is a rare film in which Chaplin, as the director, did not play a main acting role ("A Woman in Paris" is the other). He only appeared twice as the ship's steward. Although starting off with the name "The Stowaway" in the 1930s, this movie did not get completed until 1967. While failing in the US, this movie succeeded in Europe and Japan.

The theme song, which was later released with words sung by Petula Clark, topped the UK Singles Chart. Chaplin had wanted Al Jolson to sing this song, but he had died in 1950. Thus, the song only appears in the movie without words.

Chaplin's A King in New York (1957) was his last major film appearance, where he played the starring role.