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INSPIRATION: From Rags to Riches
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From Rags to Riches
By Barbara Ross

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At the tender age of seven, he lost the love and care of his parents. His severely alcoholic father abandoned him and later passed away, and his mother, who was a stage artist and hall singer, had to be taken to a mental asylum owing to her mental issues. He only had an older brother, and before reaching the age of 10, all his life resources were brutally taken away from him.
 

Seldom do people find the strength to face such grave adversities in the eye and overcome them. Especially being a little boy, it was traumatizing to know that it was up to him if he wanted to live any further, and that there was no one he could count on to save him.
 

However, he did not for a second stumble or let his mind waver. Instead, he set his mind on finding a way to make a career and, in turn, making enough money for him and his brother to live.

BT 201910 INSPIRATION 061889年4月16日,他出生在了伦敦南部兰倍斯贫民窟。他的父母都是职业的歌手,可是很快他的幸福家庭就瓦解了。分开后,父亲酗酒,母亲靠着唱歌挣钱独自抚养两个孩子,可是母亲却在卓别林5岁的时候,不幸的患上了喉炎,从此失去声音。失声后,妈妈再也不能唱歌了,生活也就更困难了,只好靠给别人缝衣服挣钱来维持生活。
 

由于过度操劳,妈妈的身体越来越差,走投无路全家都住进了救济院。而不幸的是,身体越来越差的妈妈居然疯了,被强制送进了精神病院。可怜的卓别林兄弟俩被送去了爸爸身边,爸爸是一个酒鬼,而他们兄弟两又被后母折磨赶出。12岁父亲去世,母亲疯了,哥哥被送去了训练舰成为一名水手,而小小年纪的卓别林只好自己谋生。卖过花、送过报紙,也当过理髮师的学徒,尝尽了嘲讽与无助的滋味。

BT 201910 INSPIRATION 05Entry in to the entertainment industry

On one of his mother’s on-stage performances, she lost her voice in a dramatic scene in the middle of the show. At this point, the production manager pushed her youngest son on to the stage to cover for her as he had heard him sing before.
 

This marked the first ever stage performance of an entertainer, who went on to become a legend in show business. The little boy left the audience spell-bound with his voice, his natural stage presence and his comedic presentation skills. He even imitated his mother’s cracking voice.
 

Thus, he discovered his passion, and since then he has been determined to make it in the entertainment industry.
 

进入娱乐业

一次偶然剧场的一位喜剧演员生病了无法上场,剧场经理抱着试试看的心态,让他代替,没想到套上了肥大衣服穿上大皮鞋的他一出场就引起了全场大笑,一连演了好几场。从此,他发现了自己的特长,从那以后,他一直决心要在娱乐业中实现这一目标。
 

Beginning of his career

With the help of his mother’s contacts, he joined a clog-dancing troupe, named the Eight Lancashire Lads, when he was 10 or 11 years old. Later, when he was 12, he got his first chance to act in a legitimate stage show, where he was cast as “Billy”, the page boy in a production of “Sherlock Holmes”.
 

After this, he joined the Fred Karno pantomime group and became one of its stars, as a drunkard in the comedic play “A Night in an English Music Hall”. With the group he got to travel to the United States; the dream land of all aspiring movie stars, and there he caught the eye of producer Mack Sennet. He was successfully signed for a contract offering $150 a week.
 

Little did anyone know that this was one of the biggest moments in the history of Hollywood.

BT 201910 INSPIRATION 04职业生涯的开始

在母亲的帮助下,他加入了一个踢踏舞团。后来,当他12岁时,他第一次有机会参加舞台表演,他扮演“比利”作为“福尔摩斯”表演中的开场男孩。
 

慢慢的卓别林就开启了自己的喜剧表演生涯,他进入了有“笑料工厂”之称的卡尔诺剧团当演员。1913年,卓别林赴美国巡回演出时,被启斯东制片公司的制片人看中,出演“启斯东喜剧片”。而就是这些喜剧短片,让他成为了声名鹊起的喜剧明星。
 

Films

In 1914, he made his debut in the movie “Make a Living”, which was not very successful. However, the intelligent young man noticed a common trait of characters across most of Sennet’s films. Thus, he decided to play a distinguished single identifiable character and “The Little Tramp” was born. He played the character for the first time in “Kid Auto Races at Venice” and the audience loved him.

Charlie Chaplin dressed in his iconic Little Tramp garbCharlie Chaplin dressed in his iconic Little Tramp garb

He went on to act in around 35 films the following year and signed a contract with the Essanay Company for $1250 a week; the fruit of the patient young boy who worked for a pittance just a few years ago.
 

电影

1914年,他在电影“Make a Living”中首次亮相并未成功。然而,这位聪明的年轻人注意到了电影中大部分人物的共同特征。因此,他决定扮演一个单一可识别的角色, “小流浪汉”诞生了。他在“威尼斯的儿童汽车比赛”中第一次扮演该角色,观众很喜欢他。
 

第二年,他继续在约35部电影中演出,并以每周1250美元的价格与Essanay公司签订合同。
 

The legend

With the Essanay Company, he made around 14 films in the first year, one of which was “The Tramp” – the wildly famous comedic character and the movie that marked the actor’s first classic. By the age of 26, he became a superstar and he signed with the Mutual Company, which offered him $670,000 a year and the rest as they say was history.
 

He was an out-and-out entertainer, a strict perfectionist, an artist who loved to experiment and most of all, a very determined, unwavering human being with a never-give-up attitude.
 

He was Charles Spencer Chaplin, or Charlie Chaplin as he was lovingly called, born on the 16th of April, 1889, in London, England; a life story that every millennial ought to learn from.

BT 201910 INSPIRATION 07传奇

在Essanay公司,他第一年制作了大约14部电影,其中一部是“The Tramp” - 一部极其著名的经典电影。到了26岁,他成为了一名超级巨星,并与Mutual公司签约,该公司每年为他提供67万美元。
 

他是一个完全的艺人,一个严格的完美主义者,一个喜欢实验的艺术家,最重要的是,他是一个坚定不移的人,拥有永不放弃的态度。
 

1889年4月16日,他在英国伦敦出生,他就是查理卓别林。

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