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
Carmen Chaplin Carmen Chaplin Carmen Chaplin (born 1972) is a British and French actress and film director. She is the daughter of Michael Chaplin, granddaughter of Charlie Chaplin, and great-granddaughter of playwright Eugene O'Neill. Her mother is the French painter Patricia Betaudier, daughter of Trinidadian artist Patrick Betaudier. She was born 1972 in London, and grew up in France and Spain. She made her film debut in 1991 in Wim Wenders' "Until the End of the World", and has since appeared in several films, such as "My Favourite Season" (1993), "The Serpent's Kiss" (1997), and "All About the Benjamins" (2002). She has