I wasn't sure I'd be able to cobble together a Picto-Sked for Charlie Chaplin day. I thought some of the early movies that TCM is playing on Thursday might be hard to find ads to represent them. Piece of cake.
A King in New York (1957) turned out to the toughest find since it wasn't released in the U.S. until the early 1970s.
The Picto-Sked below gathers the entire August 14, 2014 schedule of Charlie Chaplin movies playing on TCM and illustrates each with an actual period newspaper advertisement to give a little extra flavor of the times.
The schedule following below is for movies showing on Turner Classic Movies in the US with all times Eastern Daylight Time.
Thursday's TCM schedule follows:
6:00 am EDT - Tillie's Punctured Romance (1914)
Starring Marie Dressler, Charles Chaplin, Mabel Normand, directed by Mack Sennett.
Found in The Billboard, November 7, 1914, page 80. You can click this one to enlarge.
7:30 am - Shoulder Arms (1918)
Starring Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance and Syd Chaplin, directed by Chaplin.
Found in the Eugene Daily Guard of Eugene, Oregon, February 14, 1919, page 2.
8:30 am - Sunnyside (1919)
Starring Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance and Tom Wilson, directed by Chaplin.
Found in the Cape Girardeau Southeast Missourian, October 17, 1919, page 7.
9:00 am - A Day's Pleasure (1919)
Starring Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Jackie Coogan, directed by Chaplin.
Found in the St. Maurice Valley Chronicle of Three Rivers, Quebec, February 20, 1920, page 8.
By the way, Mrs. Charlie Chaplin at that time would have been Chaplin's first wife, Mildred Harris:
9:30 am - The Pilgrim (1923)
Starring Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Syd Chaplin, directed by Chaplin.
Found in The Citizen of Ottawa, June 9, 1923, page 21.
10:15 am - A Woman of Paris (1923)
Starring Edna Purviance, Adolphe Menjou, Carl Miller, directed by Charles Chaplin.
Found in the Miami News Metropolis of Miami, Florida, January 3, 1924, page 11.
11:45 am - The Gold Rush (1925)
Starring Charles Chaplin, Georgia Hale, Mack Swain, directed by Chaplin.
Found in the Prescott Courier of Prescott, Arizona, November 13, 1925, page 2.
1:15 pm - Chaplin Today: The Gold Rush (2003)
2003 documentary directed by Serge Le Peron.
1:45 pm - The Circus (1928)
Starring Charles Chaplin, Merna Kennedy, Allan Garcia, directed by Chaplin.
Found in the Miami Daily News of Miami, Florida, January 29, 1928, page 6.
3:00 pm - Modern Times (1936)
Starring Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Henry Bergman, directed by Chaplin.
Found in the Spokane Daily Chronicle of Spokane, Washington, February 26, 1936, page 8.
Bonus ad, not exactly a ringing endorsement:
Found in The Independent of St. Petersburg, Florida, October 22, 1936, page 7A.
4:45 pm - The Tramp and the Dictator (2002)
2002 documentary directed by Kevin Brownlow and Michael Kloft.
5:45 pm - The Great Dictator (1940)
Starring Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Jack Oakie, directed by Chaplin.
Found in the Miami News of Miami, Florida, November 19, 1940, page 5B.
8:00 pm - The Birth of the Tramp (2014)
World premiere 2014 documentary directed by Serge Bromberg and Eric Lange.
9:00 pm - A Dog's Life (1918)
Starring Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Syd Chaplin, directed by Chaplin.
Found in the Eugene Daily Guard of Eugene, Oregon, May 17, 1918, page 10.
9:45 pm - The Kid (1921)
Starring Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Jackie Coogan, directed by Chaplin.
Found in the Reading Eagle of Reading, Pennsylvania, March 20, 1921, page 14. You can click this one to enlarge.
10:45 pm - The Idle Class (1921)
Starring Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Mack Swain, directed by Chaplin.
Found in the Spartanburg Herald of Spartanburg, South Carolina, December 16, 1921, page 8.
11:30 pm - The Birth of the Tramp (2014)
Repeat of the 2014 documentary that also played at 8:00 pm.
12:30 am - City Lights (1931)
Starring Charles Chaplin, Virginia Cherrill, Harry Myers, directed by Chaplin.
Found in the Reading Eagle of Reading, Pennsylvania, March 22, 1931, page 8.
2:00 am - Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
Starring Charles Chaplin, Martha Raye, Isobel Elsom, directed by Chaplin.
Found in the Brooklyn Eagle of Brooklyn, New York, April 12, 1947, page 12.
4:15 am - A King in New York (1957)
Starring Charles Chaplin, Michael Chaplin, Dawn Addams, directed by Chaplin.
Found in the Independent Press Telegram of Long Beach, California, July 6, 1974, page 15.
Enjoy the Chaplin movies today and Faye Dunaway on Friday! I will try to be back on Saturday the 16th with something for Herbert Marshall day on TCM Summer Under the Stars.
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