Richard Attenborough attempting to get the project made for 18 years. He directed the screen version of the musical "A Chorus Line" (1985) and the anti-apartheid drama "Cry Freedom" (1987). He was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Director for both films. His later films as director and producer include "Chaplin" (1992) starring Robert Downey Jr., as Charlie Chaplin and "Shadowlands" (1993), based on the relationship between C. S. Lewis and Joy Gresham (the star of the latter was Anthony Hopkins, who had appeared in four previous films for Attenborough: "Young Winston", "A Bridge Too Far", "Magic" and "Chaplin"). Between
Geraldine Chaplin (1981), Alain Resnais' "Life Is a Bed of Roses" (1983), Jacques Rivette's experimental "Love on the Ground" (1984), and then the American film, "I Want to Go Home" (1989). Chaplin also starred in Rudolph's 1920s-set film, "The Moderns" (1988). In the biographical film about her father, "Chaplin" (1992), she played her grandmother Hannah Chaplin, for which she was nominated for her third Golden Globe Award. Soon after, she was directed by Martin Scorsese in "The Age of Innocence" (1993), and appeared in Franco Zeffirelli's version of "Jane Eyre" (1996). Chaplin went on to appear in "" (1997). Chaplin received a