Hannah Chaplin brought her to Hollywood where he was now living with Sydney and his other half brother, Wheeler Dryden. There her sons ensured Hannah Chaplin received round-the-clock care in the new home they had found for her in the San Fernando Valley, California. Seven years later she died in hospital in Glendale, California, on 28 August 1928, with Charlie at her side. She is buried in Hollywood Forever Cemetery. Hannah Chaplin's granddaughter, actress Geraldine Chaplin, portrayed her in the 1992 biographical film "Chaplin", directed by Richard Attenborough and starring Robert Downey Jr. as Charlie Chaplin. Ms. Chaplin was nominated for a
Charlie Chaplin take in "The Kid". For "The Immigrant", a 20 minute-short, Chaplin shot 40,000 feet of film – enough for a feature-length. Describing his working method as "sheer perseverance to the point of madness", Chaplin would be completely consumed by the production of a picture. Robinson writes that even in Chaplin's later years, his work continued "to take precedence over everything and everyone else." The combination of story improvisation and relentless perfectionism – which resulted in days of effort and thousands of feet of film being wasted, all at enormous expense – often proved taxing for Chaplin who, in frustration, would