Charlie Chaplin, the legendary silent film star, was a man of timeless style and class. Known for his iconic bowler hat, cane, and unforgettable mustache, Chaplin also had impeccable taste when it ...

A Watford Observer photographer captured these images in October 1971 when Charlie Chaplin visited Heronsgate near Chorleywood. (Image: Watford Observer) Our photographers’ diary does not record why ...

With Taylor Swift singing songs about Clara Bow, audiences have turned their attention to the first days of cinema. But even ...

1899: Prince Alfred of Edinburgh, grandson of Queen Victoria, dies aged 24 in mysterious circumstances. On the same day, the ...

Before Mickey Mouse, Felix the Cat was the biggest thing in animation. But behind the success of the cartoon cat, his creator ...

But Henry Spencer, the confused, hurricane-haired protagonist played by Jack Nance, generated the sort of pathos earlier audiences encountered in Charlie Chaplin’s Little Tramp. That was down to ...

Long before it became Roxanne’s Wish and a Dream, the inconspicuous house at 919 Maple Ave. held the most highly publicized ...