Chaplin (film) and is moved to tears when the audience provide him with the Oscar's longest standing ovation. Although Richard Attenborough wanted Robert Downey Jr. for the part of Chaplin, studio executives wanted Robin Williams or Billy Crystal for the role. Jim Carrey was also considered for the role. The film received mixed to positive reviews. Although the film was criticized for taking dramatic licence with some aspects of Chaplin's life, Downey's performance as Chaplin won universal acclaim. Attenborough was sufficiently confident in Downey's performance to include historical footage of Chaplin himself at the end of the film. The film was lauded
Hetty Kelly "Sir") Alan Edgar Horne (1889–1984) in August 1915. Horne was a Lieutenant in the Surrey Yeomanry. (In 1941 Horne succeeded his father to the Horne baronetcy of Shackleford, in Surrey.) The couple lived at 5 Tilney Street, Mayfair, London. Hetty died in October 1918 in the Spanish flu epidemic that ravaged Europe in the wake of the First World War. Chaplin did not learn of her death until three years later in 1921, on a visit to England. Hetty Kelly was played by American actress Moira Kelly in the 1992 film "Chaplin" produced and directed by Richard Attenborough. Kelly also