Monday, November 23, 2009

Reporter Chaplin

Charlie Chaplin's last home in Switzerland will be turned into a permanent place of pilgrimage for fans of the actor. The mansion at Corsier-sur-Vevey by the shores of Lake Geneva was chosen over Los Angeles and London as the site of the first museum dedicated to the screen legend. (AP via Google)

Making a Living is the first film appearance of Charlie Chaplin, which premiered on February 2, 1914. Chaplin plays an out-of-work swindler who takes a job as a reporter.

After witnessing a car go over cliff, he grabs a rival reporter's camera and races to the newspaper office to enter the photo as his own. Then he follows the distribution of the paper containing his "scoop" around town.