A Film Journey From Charlie Chaplin to Charlie Chaplin
by DrAndreiSmyslov | created - 21 Apr 2013 | updated - 15 Nov 2021 | Public
1. Charles Chaplin
Writer | The Great Dictator
Considered to be one of the most pivotal stars of the early days of Hollywood, Charlie Chaplin lived an interesting life both in his films and behind the camera. He is most recognized as an icon of the silent film era, often associated with his popular character, the Little Tramp; the man with the ...
Charlie Chaplin appeared in his first full feature film, Tillie's Punctured Romance 1914, starring Marie Dressler.
2. Marie Dressler
Actress | Dinner at Eight
Once you saw her, you would not forget her. Despite her age and weight, she became one of the top box office draws of the sound era. She was 14 when she joined a theater group and she went on to work on stage and in light opera. By 1892, she was on Broadway and she later became a star comedienne on...
Marie Dressler, after taking nine years off from feature films, returned to star in The Callahans and the Murphys 1927, costarring Anne Shirley.
3. Anne Shirley
Actress | Murder, My Sweet
They didn't come packaged any sweeter or lovelier than Anne Shirley, a gentle and gracious 1930s teen film actress who didn't quite reach the zenith of front-rank stardom and retired all too soon at age 26. On film as a toddler, she went through a small revolving door of marquee names before ...
Ann Shirley, appearing in numerous films during the thirties and forties, portrayed Marie Tustine in the 1930 romantic drama City Girl, starring Charles Farrell.
4. Charles Farrell
Actor | 7th Heaven
Popular Hollywood leading man of late silents and early talkies. He is best remembered for his teaming with Janet Gaynor in 12 screen romances between 1927 and 1934. He retired from films in the early 1940s, but TV audiences of the 1950s would see him as Gale Storm's widower dad in the popular ...
Charles Farrell became a matinee idol of the thirties and eventually earned a Star on the Walk of Fame. In 1934, he appeared in the crime drama The Big Shakedown with film legend Bette Davis.
5. Bette Davis
Actress | All About Eve
Ruth Elizabeth Davis was born April 5, 1908, in Lowell, Massachusetts, to Ruth Augusta (Favor) and Harlow Morrell Davis, a patent attorney. Her parents divorced when she was 10. She and her sister were raised by their mother. Her early interest was dance. To Bette, dancers led a glamorous life, but...
Bette Davis' career spanned six decades portraying a wide range of characters including a clip joint "party girl" in the 1937 crime drama Marked Woman, costarring another film legend, Humphrey Bogart.
6. Humphrey Bogart
Actor | Casablanca
Humphrey DeForest Bogart was born in New York City, New York, to Maud Humphrey, a famed magazine illustrator and suffragette, and Belmont DeForest Bogart, a moderately wealthy surgeon (who was secretly addicted to opium). Bogart was educated at Trinity School, NYC, and was sent to Phillips Academy ...
Humphrey Bogart seemed to be doomed to always play criminals/gangsters throughout the thirties. It was the forties when he gained choice roles such as Rick Blaine in Casablanca. One of his last 1930's criminal roles was portraying a cold blooded murderer in The Roaring Twenties 1939, costarring yet another film legend James Cagney.
7. James Cagney
Actor | Angels with Dirty Faces
One of Hollywood's preeminent male stars of all time, James Cagney was also an accomplished dancer and easily played light comedy. James Francis Cagney was born on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in New York City, to Carolyn (Nelson) and James Francis Cagney, Sr., who was a bartender and amateur ...
James Cagney, another film legend like Bogart, who played numerous gangster roles, got to explore his lighter side with the upbeat musical and Oscar nominated Yankee Doodle Dandy 1942, also starring Joan Leslie
8. Joan Leslie
Actress | The Sky's the Limit
She was born of Irish ancestry as Joan Agnes Theresa Brodel, the daughter of an accountant and a pianist. She was educated at Catholic schools in Toronto, Montreal and Detroit. There were three sisters, her older siblings being Mary and Betty. Together, they made up a successful vaudeville act, the...
Joan Leslie has appeared in over 60 television and feature films often portraying lighter roles as she was so petite, including the character Judy Jones in the comedy musical Cinderella Jones 1946, also starring William Prince.
9. William Prince
Actor | Spies Like Us
William was a character actor, whose popularity was due to hundreds of appearances in soap operas.
Going from stage to screen, William had an undistinguished movie career in the '40s which ran out of steam after about four years.
But in the '50s, he would find his calling on the small screen. On ...
William Prince became more well known in fifties television, but he did appear in a number of forties feature films. One of the last of the forties films being Lust for Gold 1949, starring Glenn Ford.
10. Glenn Ford
Actor | Gilda
Legendary actor Glenn Ford was born Gwyllyn Samuel Newton Ford in Sainte-Christine-d'Auvergne, Quebec, Canada, to Hannah Wood (Mitchell) and Newton Ford, a railroad executive. His family moved to Santa Monica, California when he was eight years old. His acting career began with plays at high school...
Glenn Ford, another film legend, seemed like a tailor fit actor for westerns and played numerous characters in this genre including The Man from the Alamo 1953, costarring Julie Adams.
11. Julie Adams
Actress | Creature from the Black Lagoon
Betty May Adams was the daughter of a travelling Iowa cotton buyer with a penchant for alcohol. Growing up in Arkansas, Betty expressed an early interest in acting and made her performing debut in a third grade play of "Hansel and Gretel." Beautiful, talented and determined, the freshly minted '...
Julie Adams is forever immortalized on the iconic poster of the classic horror film The Creature From the Black Lagoon 1954, also starring Richard Carlson.
12. Richard Carlson
Actor | Creature from the Black Lagoon
The son of an attorney, Richard Carlson had an introspective quality to his performances and looked every inch the academic he first aspired to be. Following his graduation from the University of Minnesota with a Master's Degree in English, the tall, dark-haired youth had a brief stint as a drama ...
Richard Carlson, was a consistent hard worker in the business and though he never reached top stardom, he does have a Star on the Walk of Fame. He's appeared in numerous feature films including The Helen Morgan Story 1957, which also starred a young actor and eventual film legend, Paul Newman.
13. Paul Newman
Actor | The Hustler
Screen legend, superstar, and the man with the most famous blue eyes in movie history, Paul Leonard Newman was born on January 26, 1925, in Cleveland, Ohio, the second son of Arthur Sigmund Newman (died 1950) and Theresa Fetsko (died 1982). His elder brother was Arthur S. Newman Jr., named for ...
Paul Newman was Oscar nominated several times before finally winning Best Actor in 1987. One of his most memorable roles was Eddie Felson in The Hustler 1961, costarring the late great George C Scott.
14. George C. Scott
Actor | Patton
George C. Scott was an immensely talented actor, a star of the big screen, stage and television. He was born on October 18, 1927 in Wise, Virginia, to Helena Agnes (Slemp) and George Dewey Scott. At the age of eight, his mother died, and his father, an executive at Buick, raised him. In 1945, he ...
George C. Scott, best known for his Oscar winning performance in Patton, also had quite the comedic side including the comedy romance and star studded cast, The Yellow Rolls-Royce 1964, also starring legendary actress Shirley MacLaine.
15. Shirley MacLaine
Actress | Terms of Endearment
Shirley MacLaine was born Shirley MacLean Beaty in Richmond, Virginia. Her mother, Kathlyn Corinne (MacLean), was a drama teacher from Nova Scotia, Canada, and her father, Ira Owens Beaty, a professor of psychology and real estate agent, was from Virginia. Her brother, Warren Beatty, was born on ...
Shirley MacLaine, this multi-talented Oscar winning actress has appeared in a number of box office greats. Portraying a wide range or roles including the sassy nun in the comedy western Two Mules for Sister Sara 1970, starring film legend Clint Eastwood.
16. Clint Eastwood
Actor | Million Dollar Baby
Clint Eastwood was born May 31, 1930 in San Francisco, to Clinton Eastwood Sr., a bond salesman and later manufacturing executive for Georgia-Pacific Corporation, and Ruth Wood (née Margret Ruth Runner), a housewife turned IBM clerk. He grew up in nearby Piedmont. At school Clint took interest in ...
Clint Eastwood, a western legend in his early career and an Oscar winning director in his later years, starred in the quirky crime comedy Thunderbolt and Lightfoot 1974, costarring Jeff Bridges.
17. Jeff Bridges
Actor | The Big Lebowski
Jeffrey Leon Bridges was born on December 4, 1949 in Los Angeles, California, the son of well-known film and TV star Lloyd Bridges and his long-time wife Dorothy Dean Bridges (née Simpson). He grew up amid the happening Hollywood scene with big brother Beau Bridges. Both boys popped up, without ...
Jeff Bridges, from a Hollywood family, has sustained a long career filled many memorable roles. One of his early top billings was the 1976 extravaganza King Kong, costarring the lovely Jessica Lange.
18. Jessica Lange
Actress | Tootsie
Jessica Lange was born in 1949, in Cloquet, Minnesota, USA, where her father worked as a traveling salesman. She obtained a scholarship to study art at the University of Minnesota, but instead went to Paris to study drama. She moved to New York, working as a model, until producer Dino De Laurentiis...
Jessica Lange has appeared in 40 television and feature films and was chosen by Empire Magazine as one of the top 100 sexiest stars in film history. Often picking sensuous roles, it's little wonder she made the list, combined with being a regal beauty. One such role was The Postman Always Rings Twice 1981, costarring Jack Nicholson.
19. Jack Nicholson
Actor | Chinatown
Jack Nicholson, an American actor, producer, director and screenwriter, is a three-time Academy Award winner and twelve-time nominee. Nicholson is also notable for being one of two actors - the other being Michael Caine - who have received an Oscar nomination in every decade from the '60s through ...
Jack Nicholson, a star in just about every decade from the sixties to current cinema. No one can ever forget his over the top zany performance as The Joker in Batman 1989, also starring Kim Basinger.
20. Kim Basinger
Actress | L.A. Confidential
Kim Basinger was born December 8, 1953, in Athens, Georgia, the third of five children. Both her parents had been in entertainment, her dad had played big-band jazz, and her mother had performed water ballet in several Esther Williams movies. Kim was introspective, from her father's side. As a ...
Kim Basinger is an eye catching blonde bombshell with loads of talent. She had her share of hits and a few misses, such as the animated film and box office bomb Cool World 1992, which happen to also star the young upcoming star Brad Pitt.
21. Brad Pitt
Actor | Fight Club
William Bradley "Brad" Pitt was born on December 18, 1963 in Shawnee, Oklahoma and raised in Springfield, Missouri to Jane Etta Pitt (née Hillhouse), a school counselor & William Alvin "Bill" Pitt, a truck company manager. At Kickapoo High School, Pitt was involved in sports, debating, student ...
Brad Pitt has been a top billing actor for several years and still going strong. It's often claimed his career role was Tyler Durden in 1999's Fight Club, also starring Helena Bonham Carter.
22. Helena Bonham Carter
Actress | Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Helena Bonham Carter is an actress of great versatility, one of the UK's finest and most successful.
Bonham Carter was born May 26, 1966 in Golders Green, London, England, the youngest of three children of Elena (née Propper de Callejón), a psychotherapist, and Raymond Bonham Carter, a merchant ...
Helena Bonham Carter is an extremely talented character actress who's appeared in a number of Tim Burton films including the often praised adventure fantasy Big Fish 2003, also starring Marion Cotillard.
23. Marion Cotillard
Actress | La Môme
Academy Award-winning actress Marion Cotillard was born on September 30, 1975 in Paris. Cotillard is the daughter of Jean-Claude Cotillard, an actor, playwright and director, and Niseema Theillaud, an actress and drama teacher. Her father's family is from Brittany.
Raised in Orléans, France, she ...
Marion Cotillard is an Oscar winning actress who's star keeps rising. Only two actresses have won the Oscar Best Actress in a non-English speaking role. The other, who also costarred with Cotillard in 2009's Nine, the film legend great Sophia Loren.
24. Sophia Loren
Actress | La ciociara
Sophia Loren was born as Sofia Scicolone at the Clinica Regina Margherita in Rome on September 20, 1934. Her father Riccardo was married to another woman and refused to marry her mother Romilda Villani, despite the fact that she was the mother of his two children (Sophia and her younger sister ...
Sophia Loren, an Italian beauty and Oscar winner, has enjoyed a stellar career. It's perhaps the sixties when she was a huge draw at the box office. In 1967, she portrayed Natascha, a Russian countess in the comedy romance A Countess from Hong Kong. This film records the very last feature film appearance of a film legend of all legends, the silent comedian genius we all know as Charlie Chaplin.
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