Charlie Chaplin sang on a London stage for the first time at the age of five. Performing proved to be his salvation, providing a way out of a life of hardship and poverty.
Success came early and made Chaplin one of the best loved people in the United States until the McCarthy witch hunts drove Chaplin from his adopted country. This is a moving portrait of a multi-talented man—actor, director, writer, even music composer—and the complicated times he lived in.
英國幽默大師查理·卓別林五歲就登上倫敦舞台唱歌,上台表演讓他從此逆轉人生,擺脫了困苦和貧窮。
卓別林成名得早,一躍而成美國萬眾矚目的名人。然而,卓別林後來在麥卡錫主義的政治迫害下遠走他鄉。本書動人描寫卓別林這位集演員、導演、作家甚至作曲家於一身的傳奇人物,也紀錄了他身處的複雜年代。