Charlie Chaplin hone his craft as he moved to the Essanay, Mutual, and First National corporations. By 1918, he was one of the best-known figures in the world. In 1919, Chaplin co-founded the distribution company United Artists which gave him complete control over his films. His first feature-length film was "The Kid" (1921), followed by "A Woman of Paris" (1923), "The Gold Rush" (1925), and "The Circus" (1928). He refused to move to sound films in the 1930s, instead producing "City Lights" (1931) and "Modern Times" (1936) without dialogue. He became increasingly political, and his next film "The Great Dictator" (1940) satirized
Carmen Chaplin directed one short film, "Tryst in Paname", starring her sister Dolores Chaplin and Bambou Gainsbourg. 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