Remembering Charlie

by Jerry Epstein

Offers an intimate portrait of the legendary comic that reveals both the craft and hard work behind his great acting sequences, and his complicated relationships with friends, family and other movie personalities

Genres: Biography

228 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1989

Reviews

[Lynne Stringer · Rating 4 out of 5]

I found this book very enjoyable with wonderful photographs and anecdotes reflecting on the author's friendship with Charlie Chaplin. I have long found him fascinating and the stories were told in such a candid, flowing manner that I found the book instantly engaging. Highly recommended.

[I.D. · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a solid book if you want to know about the final 30 or so years of Chaplin’s life as they met with Jerry Epstein. You get a lot about his last few movies and what he was like as an old man but only as it pertained to his relationship with the author. It’s okay for what it was and has lots of family photos but this isn’t required reading by any stretch.

[Alyssa DeLeon · Rating 5 out of 5]

A really interesting biography on Charlie's later years by one of the men that knew him best.

[Tristy · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is much more an autobiography of the author with pictures of Charlie Chaplain and his family in the last years of his life, as opposed to an actual "pictorial biography" of Chaplain. All stories are filtered through the author's personal experience and the photos, while somewhat interesting, only cover the last years of his life. It would have been far more interesting if the author included way less of his own personal life (including all his stories that have nothing to do with Chaplain at all!) and included more historical facts and photos of Chaplain's whole life.

[Samira Majd · Rating 4 out of 5]

It would have been better if the book was chronologically more in order. it was sometimes difficult to catch up with events. interensting was the fact that reading the translated version of the book(in farsi), I accidentally googled one of the pictures and noticed sophia loren to be perfectly professionally cut out of the picture! censored! and in another picture (sophia in her white dress) her dress had sleeves!! I enjoyed the book, though. Charlie and his life and his films and photos are always interesting.