1 00:00:18,351 --> 00:00:23,220 Why is my heart so light? 2 00:00:23,289 --> 00:00:27,521 Why are the stars so bright? 3 00:00:27,594 --> 00:00:31,155 Why is the sky so blue 4 00:00:31,231 --> 00:00:36,635 Since the hour I met you? 5 00:00:36,703 --> 00:00:41,140 Flowers are smiling bright 6 00:00:41,207 --> 00:00:45,644 Smiling for our delight 7 00:00:45,712 --> 00:00:49,648 Smiling so tenderly 8 00:00:49,716 --> 00:00:54,517 For the world, you and me 9 00:00:54,587 --> 00:00:59,456 I know why the world is smiling 10 00:00:59,526 --> 00:01:03,428 Smiling so tenderly 11 00:01:03,496 --> 00:01:06,693 I have no design for living: no philosophy. 12 00:01:06,766 --> 00:01:09,826 Whether sage or fool, we must all struggle with life. 13 00:01:09,903 --> 00:01:11,768 We who have lived a little longer... 14 00:01:11,838 --> 00:01:13,328 become a little more estranged... 15 00:01:13,406 --> 00:01:15,101 as we journey on our way. 16 00:01:24,350 --> 00:01:27,615 Christmas 1977 has brought sadness. 17 00:01:27,687 --> 00:01:28,779 Early this morning... 18 00:01:28,855 --> 00:01:30,482 with the death of Charles Spencer Chaplin... 19 00:01:30,557 --> 00:01:33,856 the world of films lost one of its greatest artists. 20 00:01:49,042 --> 00:01:51,101 Time isn't that important to me. 21 00:01:52,612 --> 00:01:55,945 I remember him always with a tinge of... 22 00:01:56,015 --> 00:01:57,983 of sadness. 23 00:02:02,188 --> 00:02:05,521 He was a... he was a sweet man. 24 00:02:05,592 --> 00:02:07,219 The happiest thing which happened in his life... 25 00:02:07,293 --> 00:02:08,954 is meeting my mother. 26 00:02:09,028 --> 00:02:12,589 I think that if he'd gone on making silent films... 27 00:02:12,665 --> 00:02:15,759 he would have seemed like a pioneer once again. 28 00:02:15,835 --> 00:02:17,996 He seemed to be happy. 29 00:02:20,540 --> 00:02:24,135 A little bit out of touch, but that was quite charming. 30 00:02:24,210 --> 00:02:27,646 I was always impressed by his humble nature... 31 00:02:27,714 --> 00:02:29,705 by his true modesty... 32 00:02:29,782 --> 00:02:31,443 and by his sincerity. 33 00:02:31,518 --> 00:02:33,452 He really did love his children... 34 00:02:33,520 --> 00:02:36,683 but I had a lot of problems with him... 35 00:02:36,756 --> 00:02:38,519 when I started growing up. 36 00:02:38,591 --> 00:02:41,651 And I think that's because his own, um... 37 00:02:41,728 --> 00:02:43,821 his own background was very different from... 38 00:02:43,897 --> 00:02:45,762 from his children's background. 39 00:02:48,268 --> 00:02:50,236 I was working on a film, and I said... 40 00:02:50,303 --> 00:02:52,396 "My father's dying. Can I go home?" 41 00:02:52,472 --> 00:02:54,201 It was Christmas, so we weren't shooting. 42 00:02:54,274 --> 00:02:56,469 And they said, "No, you can't. You're making a movie". 43 00:02:56,543 --> 00:02:59,512 So I couldn't go home. I couldn't say good-bye to him. 44 00:02:59,579 --> 00:03:02,571 I remember the images... 45 00:03:02,649 --> 00:03:03,809 the sort of dark images... 46 00:03:03,883 --> 00:03:06,784 of the body being put down into the earth. 47 00:03:06,853 --> 00:03:09,549 He had a great life, and I think, you know... 48 00:03:09,622 --> 00:03:11,590 you couldn't ask for anything more. 49 00:03:11,658 --> 00:03:13,489 For my mother, it was completely different. 50 00:03:13,560 --> 00:03:15,255 I mean, she really... 51 00:03:15,328 --> 00:03:19,162 She'd lost someone who, you know... 52 00:03:19,232 --> 00:03:20,597 counted enormously for her... 53 00:03:20,667 --> 00:03:22,567 and she was very... 54 00:03:22,635 --> 00:03:24,626 We were just thinking of her at the time, I think. 55 00:03:33,613 --> 00:03:36,207 We weren't used to having people standing round... 56 00:03:36,282 --> 00:03:37,442 watching us work. 57 00:03:38,551 --> 00:03:41,520 It was at the end, when the photographers turned up... 58 00:03:41,588 --> 00:03:42,953 that it got a bit annoying. 59 00:03:50,930 --> 00:03:52,864 Everything happened very quickly... 60 00:03:52,932 --> 00:03:55,799 so the time you realize it and it can sink in... 61 00:03:55,868 --> 00:03:57,096 And then at the same time... 62 00:03:57,170 --> 00:03:58,535 you have other people coming and saying... 63 00:03:58,605 --> 00:04:00,266 "Now, look, the funeral's done. 64 00:04:00,340 --> 00:04:02,205 "Come and do interviews. Come and do... " 65 00:04:02,275 --> 00:04:05,301 And, uh, it's not nice... 66 00:04:05,378 --> 00:04:07,846 because it's a very aggressive environment. 67 00:04:23,463 --> 00:04:24,896 Three months after the funeral... 68 00:04:24,964 --> 00:04:27,364 the name "Chaplin" was again in the headlines. 69 00:04:27,433 --> 00:04:30,368 The macabre, tragic story had 2 main actors: 70 00:04:30,436 --> 00:04:32,267 a Pole and a Bulgarian... 71 00:04:32,338 --> 00:04:34,272 who dug up Charles Chaplin's coffin... 72 00:04:34,340 --> 00:04:38,572 and demanded $600,000 from the family for its return. 73 00:04:42,248 --> 00:04:43,340 Playing for time... 74 00:04:43,416 --> 00:04:46,749 Chaplin's daughter Geraldine conducted the negotiations. 75 00:04:46,819 --> 00:04:50,448 Finally, the police moved in and arrested the pathetic pair. 76 00:04:50,523 --> 00:04:52,548 That was a nightmare. That was the worst nightmare. 77 00:04:52,625 --> 00:04:55,992 I mean, I don't really want to even remember. 78 00:04:56,062 --> 00:04:57,757 It was a horrible thing to do. 79 00:04:57,830 --> 00:05:00,628 The body snatchers were judged and sentenced. 80 00:05:00,700 --> 00:05:03,567 They had reburied the coffin in a corn field. 81 00:05:03,636 --> 00:05:06,469 Today, the place of Charles Chaplin's second burial... 82 00:05:06,539 --> 00:05:09,099 is marked by a cross and a memorial stone. 83 00:05:16,349 --> 00:05:19,716 At the beginning of the fifties, the Cold War was at its height. 84 00:05:19,786 --> 00:05:22,380 America was in the grip of anti-Communist hysteria... 85 00:05:22,455 --> 00:05:24,855 whipped up by Senator Joe McCarthy. 86 00:05:24,924 --> 00:05:28,087 Chaplin was among those branded as Red sympathizers. 87 00:05:28,161 --> 00:05:30,356 For organizing Communist cells: 88 00:05:30,430 --> 00:05:32,523 holding Communist meetings in his home. 89 00:05:32,598 --> 00:05:33,792 When ordered by the committee... 90 00:05:33,866 --> 00:05:36,232 for investigation of un-American activities... 91 00:05:36,302 --> 00:05:38,293 to prove his loyalty to the U.S.A... 92 00:05:38,371 --> 00:05:40,931 Chaplin replied with cutting sarcasm... 93 00:05:41,007 --> 00:05:44,101 I'm no Communist agitator. I'm an agitator for peace. 94 00:05:46,212 --> 00:05:48,510 The F.B.I. had been watching Chaplin for years... 95 00:05:48,581 --> 00:05:51,573 and the file they had kept on him since 1922... 96 00:05:51,651 --> 00:05:54,745 now ran to 1,900 pages. 97 00:05:54,821 --> 00:05:56,880 In September 1952... 98 00:05:56,956 --> 00:05:59,618 Chaplin and his family boarded the "Queen Elizabeth... " 99 00:05:59,692 --> 00:06:00,989 bound for Europe. 100 00:06:01,060 --> 00:06:02,652 They would never return. 101 00:06:02,729 --> 00:06:05,061 We were totally unaware of anything... 102 00:06:05,131 --> 00:06:06,564 I mean, of the political aspects. 103 00:06:06,632 --> 00:06:08,293 I mean, I was less than 6 years old. 104 00:06:08,368 --> 00:06:11,337 He certainly cast a light also... 105 00:06:11,404 --> 00:06:15,431 on certain anomalies of American existence. 106 00:06:17,276 --> 00:06:19,744 In Europe, Chaplin's latest film, "Limelight... " 107 00:06:19,812 --> 00:06:22,576 received a wildly enthusiastic reception. 108 00:06:28,154 --> 00:06:31,419 But his smiling face in public belied his problems. 109 00:06:31,491 --> 00:06:34,483 A return to America became more and more doubtful. 110 00:06:37,997 --> 00:06:40,830 On the second of December, 1952... 111 00:06:40,900 --> 00:06:43,528 he left London by air for Switzerland. 112 00:06:45,705 --> 00:06:48,902 Among the passengers arriving at Geneva airport from London... 113 00:06:48,975 --> 00:06:51,967 were a very distinguished- looking gentleman... 114 00:06:52,044 --> 00:06:53,602 and his young wife. 115 00:06:53,679 --> 00:06:54,771 The lady was the daughter... 116 00:06:54,847 --> 00:06:58,248 of the celebrated dramatist Eugene O'Neill: 117 00:06:58,317 --> 00:07:01,013 her husband a certain Mr. Chaplin... 118 00:07:01,087 --> 00:07:03,954 none other than the one and only Charlie Chaplin. 119 00:07:08,294 --> 00:07:10,285 Oh, thank you so much. 120 00:07:10,363 --> 00:07:11,990 I don't think so... not at this time. 121 00:07:12,064 --> 00:07:14,157 They've come for a holiday in the mountains... 122 00:07:14,233 --> 00:07:15,894 and are staying till Christmas. 123 00:07:18,304 --> 00:07:19,601 Oh, uh, Christmas. 124 00:07:21,207 --> 00:07:23,801 Soon they set off by car for Lausanne. 125 00:07:33,920 --> 00:07:36,514 This was not Chaplin's first visit to Switzerland. 126 00:07:36,589 --> 00:07:40,081 Between December 1931 and the following March... 127 00:07:40,159 --> 00:07:43,754 he had spent the winter season at the Palace Hotel, St. Moritz. 128 00:07:46,466 --> 00:07:47,899 He was invited to St. Moritz... 129 00:07:47,967 --> 00:07:51,164 by his closest friend from Hollywood, Douglas Fairbanks. 130 00:07:51,237 --> 00:07:52,670 His half-brother Sydney... 131 00:07:52,738 --> 00:07:54,228 who helped in laying the foundations... 132 00:07:54,307 --> 00:07:56,172 for Chaplin's commercial success... 133 00:07:56,242 --> 00:07:58,506 also came to the mountains. 134 00:07:58,578 --> 00:08:02,810 Here, he poses with a Citroën car manufacturer and his family. 135 00:08:02,882 --> 00:08:04,975 The former receptionist of the Palace Hotel... 136 00:08:05,051 --> 00:08:07,281 has vivid memories of his guests. 137 00:08:09,689 --> 00:08:11,850 They weren't much good on skis. 138 00:08:11,924 --> 00:08:15,553 Charlie Chaplin liked the breaks better than the action. 139 00:08:15,628 --> 00:08:17,596 He didn't seem as funny as I thought he'd be... 140 00:08:17,663 --> 00:08:19,426 but he was always friendly... 141 00:08:19,499 --> 00:08:22,627 and gave the impression of sincere cordiality. 142 00:08:50,663 --> 00:08:52,631 Now and again, he'd play a trick. 143 00:08:52,698 --> 00:08:54,632 Once he swore that his great-grandfather... 144 00:08:54,700 --> 00:08:57,760 was named Capelli and came from Oberkuln. 145 00:08:57,837 --> 00:08:59,771 Sometimes he didn't feel like partying... 146 00:08:59,839 --> 00:09:01,534 and he'd fade into the background. 147 00:09:01,607 --> 00:09:04,440 But when he was in the mood, anything could happen. 148 00:09:04,510 --> 00:09:07,673 Once, in front of everybody, he collapsed and lay motionless. 149 00:09:07,747 --> 00:09:09,237 We all thought he was dead. 150 00:09:09,315 --> 00:09:10,577 The doctor was called... 151 00:09:10,650 --> 00:09:12,743 and Charlie suddenly came back to life. 152 00:09:12,818 --> 00:09:14,012 He had fooled us all. 153 00:09:18,424 --> 00:09:21,018 Chaplin liked the discretion and seclusion he found... 154 00:09:21,093 --> 00:09:23,493 in calm and conventional Switzerland. 155 00:09:23,563 --> 00:09:25,258 As early as 1932... 156 00:09:25,331 --> 00:09:28,630 he had told a German journalist that he was weary of America. 157 00:09:28,701 --> 00:09:30,862 I can't imagine living the rest of my life... 158 00:09:30,937 --> 00:09:32,564 in the California sunshine. 159 00:09:32,638 --> 00:09:34,299 This was the time when the Little Tramp... 160 00:09:34,373 --> 00:09:36,568 sometimes felt homesick for Europe. 161 00:09:39,879 --> 00:09:41,244 After landing in Geneva... 162 00:09:41,314 --> 00:09:44,408 the Chaplins drove off to Lausanne the same day. 163 00:09:44,483 --> 00:09:46,883 Only a handful of press reporters and onlookers... 164 00:09:46,953 --> 00:09:48,079 saw them arrive. 165 00:09:50,856 --> 00:09:53,290 When I got to the Beau Rivage Hotel... 166 00:09:53,359 --> 00:09:56,157 the luggage was just being unloaded. 167 00:09:56,228 --> 00:09:57,718 I had a notebook with me... 168 00:09:57,797 --> 00:10:00,789 and when I spotted Chaplin, I handed it to him... 169 00:10:00,866 --> 00:10:03,426 and he wrote his autograph and a little message... 170 00:10:03,502 --> 00:10:04,628 and then I left. 171 00:10:07,940 --> 00:10:09,965 Yves Debraine, a press photographer... 172 00:10:10,042 --> 00:10:12,533 approached Chaplin and Oona outside the hotel... 173 00:10:12,612 --> 00:10:15,012 and recommended a smart restaurant. 174 00:10:15,081 --> 00:10:16,878 They appreciated his friendliness... 175 00:10:16,949 --> 00:10:19,713 and eventually he became the family's regular photographer. 176 00:10:21,654 --> 00:10:22,746 Fifty years later... 177 00:10:22,822 --> 00:10:25,848 Chaplin's son Michael meets Debraine in the same restaurant. 178 00:11:08,934 --> 00:11:10,765 My parents were searching for a house... 179 00:11:10,836 --> 00:11:17,400 not... not having planned to have to live in Europe. 180 00:11:22,882 --> 00:11:25,316 Following Chaplin's exile from America... 181 00:11:25,384 --> 00:11:28,547 Oona urged him to seek a lasting solution. 182 00:11:28,621 --> 00:11:29,713 In the interim... 183 00:11:29,789 --> 00:11:32,849 the family continued living in the hotel for several months. 184 00:11:32,925 --> 00:11:35,723 The Beau Rivage... I remember it as something... as rather sad. 185 00:11:35,795 --> 00:11:37,558 My mother used to sit at the window and look... 186 00:11:37,630 --> 00:11:38,722 and there was nothing. 187 00:11:38,798 --> 00:11:40,231 It was just gray. 188 00:11:40,299 --> 00:11:42,733 The first day that, finally, the other side of the lake... 189 00:11:42,802 --> 00:11:44,133 we saw those beautiful mountains... 190 00:11:44,203 --> 00:11:46,398 my mother was, "Oh, but it's pretty here". 191 00:11:52,778 --> 00:11:54,302 Chaplin looked around Gstaad... 192 00:11:54,380 --> 00:11:57,042 but found the surrounding mountains oppressive. 193 00:11:57,116 --> 00:12:00,017 Above Vevey, and overlooking the lake of Geneva... 194 00:12:00,086 --> 00:12:03,112 he found a 15-room house that seemed ideal... 195 00:12:03,189 --> 00:12:04,679 the Manoir de Ban. 196 00:12:04,757 --> 00:12:06,019 For him and his wife... 197 00:12:06,092 --> 00:12:07,923 and their children Geraldine, Michael... 198 00:12:07,993 --> 00:12:09,824 Josephine, and Victoria... 199 00:12:09,895 --> 00:12:12,295 this house became their microcosm. 200 00:12:12,364 --> 00:12:14,696 From it, he looked out on the world... 201 00:12:14,767 --> 00:12:16,928 and the world came to his doorstep. 202 00:12:37,656 --> 00:12:39,283 I don't actually remember them... 203 00:12:39,358 --> 00:12:42,327 a moment when they told me we wouldn't go back... 204 00:12:42,394 --> 00:12:46,330 but my mother tells me that I was constantly asking her... 205 00:12:46,398 --> 00:12:49,390 "When are we gonna go back to America?" 206 00:12:49,468 --> 00:12:53,302 And, of course, this was quite disturbing for her... 207 00:12:53,372 --> 00:12:57,638 because she knew that we wouldn't go back. 208 00:12:57,710 --> 00:12:59,974 The children lived on the top floor. 209 00:13:00,045 --> 00:13:02,980 My mother and father lived on the first floor. 210 00:13:03,048 --> 00:13:05,141 My mother and father would have breakfast together... 211 00:13:05,217 --> 00:13:09,415 in this room or on the terrace if it was a nice day... 212 00:13:09,488 --> 00:13:13,185 and then my father would start working. 213 00:13:13,259 --> 00:13:15,318 My mother had all kinds of different jobs. 214 00:13:15,394 --> 00:13:16,884 You know, she'd pay the bills... 215 00:13:16,962 --> 00:13:19,931 but as well, she did the menu for the day. 216 00:13:19,999 --> 00:13:22,490 At lunchtime, they would eat together... 217 00:13:22,568 --> 00:13:24,399 and my father would work again. 218 00:13:24,470 --> 00:13:29,203 6:30, he always had an apéritif with my mother... 219 00:13:29,275 --> 00:13:32,403 and then at quarter to 7:00, we would all eat together. 220 00:13:32,478 --> 00:13:35,641 If I think of it now, it was at times a lot of happiness... 221 00:13:35,714 --> 00:13:39,241 a lot of gaiety, a lot of... 222 00:13:39,318 --> 00:13:42,845 And then when my mother was alone after my father's death... 223 00:13:42,922 --> 00:13:46,483 it was a terrible place... spooky, haunted, awful. 224 00:13:48,561 --> 00:13:51,587 The traumatic flight left painful traces. 225 00:13:51,664 --> 00:13:54,690 Chaplin broke off all contacts with the U.S.A... 226 00:13:54,767 --> 00:13:56,826 and the local population was delighted... 227 00:13:56,902 --> 00:13:59,063 that the famous man would be living among them. 228 00:14:00,172 --> 00:14:01,469 I received a phone call... 229 00:14:01,540 --> 00:14:03,565 asking whether Mr. Chaplin could come... 230 00:14:03,642 --> 00:14:05,769 to have his passport photos taken. 231 00:14:05,845 --> 00:14:07,779 Naturally, it was quite an event... 232 00:14:07,847 --> 00:14:10,441 to have Chaplin himself here in my studio. 233 00:14:14,153 --> 00:14:16,144 I'd decided to settle in Switzerland... 234 00:14:16,222 --> 00:14:18,213 and now we'd begun to divest ourselves... 235 00:14:18,290 --> 00:14:20,724 of every tie in the United States. 236 00:14:20,793 --> 00:14:24,229 Oona decided to give up her American citizenship. 237 00:14:24,296 --> 00:14:25,388 To our amazement... 238 00:14:25,464 --> 00:14:29,525 we discovered that the Manoir de Ban has 37 acres. 239 00:14:29,602 --> 00:14:30,796 In front of the terrace... 240 00:14:30,870 --> 00:14:33,304 is a 5-acre lawn with magnificent tall trees... 241 00:14:33,372 --> 00:14:35,636 and an orchard to which, in season... 242 00:14:35,708 --> 00:14:38,939 no matter where we are, we make a special pilgrimage. 243 00:14:44,884 --> 00:14:47,944 Only a short while after moving into the Manoir de Ban... 244 00:14:48,020 --> 00:14:51,547 the Chaplins discovered an unexpected nuisance. 245 00:14:54,660 --> 00:14:57,493 Chaplin came to look around the property... 246 00:14:57,563 --> 00:14:59,656 with the idea of buying it. 247 00:14:59,732 --> 00:15:03,168 It was winter, and there was no shooting going on. 248 00:15:03,235 --> 00:15:05,203 But one day after he moved in... 249 00:15:05,271 --> 00:15:09,401 he realized that the rifle range was very close to his house. 250 00:15:09,475 --> 00:15:12,410 At that time, the army also used the range... 251 00:15:12,478 --> 00:15:14,571 sometimes from 7:00 in the morning... 252 00:15:14,647 --> 00:15:16,945 and Chaplin was very, very angry. 253 00:15:23,255 --> 00:15:24,847 Chaplin complained about the noise... 254 00:15:24,924 --> 00:15:26,983 from the rifle range nearby. 255 00:15:27,059 --> 00:15:29,027 The headlines were merciless. 256 00:15:29,094 --> 00:15:31,255 A year-long legal fight began... 257 00:15:31,330 --> 00:15:33,696 and the legendary defensive readiness of the Swiss... 258 00:15:33,766 --> 00:15:35,256 came out best. 259 00:15:35,334 --> 00:15:37,962 Chaplin had to agree to a compromise. 260 00:15:38,037 --> 00:15:40,699 Later, in his film "A King in New York... " 261 00:15:40,773 --> 00:15:43,105 the noise of firing was the subject of a gag. 262 00:15:43,175 --> 00:15:45,040 This row? Isn't this rather close? 263 00:15:45,110 --> 00:15:46,634 It's the best we could get, sir. 264 00:15:49,448 --> 00:15:50,881 Stick 'em up! This is it! 265 00:16:05,764 --> 00:16:07,698 Let's go. 266 00:16:07,766 --> 00:16:09,825 It went against everything that he thought of Switzerland... 267 00:16:09,902 --> 00:16:13,702 his idea of Switzerland being in peace and quiet. 268 00:16:13,772 --> 00:16:16,707 He even talked about leaving at one point... 269 00:16:16,775 --> 00:16:19,107 selling and moving on somewhere else. 270 00:16:20,612 --> 00:16:23,103 But really, he was... he really loved being here. 271 00:16:23,182 --> 00:16:24,308 He loved this house. 272 00:16:44,870 --> 00:16:47,703 Chaplin explores his new surroundings. 273 00:16:47,773 --> 00:16:49,832 With his half-brother Sydney behind the camera... 274 00:16:49,908 --> 00:16:53,810 he watches the wine harvest festival in Vevey. 275 00:16:53,879 --> 00:16:56,347 After having lunch and sampling the atmosphere... 276 00:16:56,415 --> 00:17:00,249 Charles Chaplin was introduced to the ex-queen of Italy. 277 00:17:00,319 --> 00:17:01,809 Later, the famous actor... 278 00:17:01,887 --> 00:17:03,878 who was apparently a left-hander... 279 00:17:03,956 --> 00:17:05,719 signed the visitors book. 280 00:17:05,791 --> 00:17:09,158 You don't have to decipher the signature to know who wrote it. 281 00:17:09,228 --> 00:17:12,561 Madame Oona Chaplin was also among the guests of royalty. 282 00:17:15,968 --> 00:17:19,495 Charles Chaplin was 63 when he moved to Switzerland. 283 00:17:19,571 --> 00:17:21,095 Despite all his efforts... 284 00:17:21,173 --> 00:17:23,664 learning French turned out to be difficult. 285 00:17:33,018 --> 00:17:36,419 He desperately wanted to learn French, and he really tried. 286 00:17:36,488 --> 00:17:37,580 For the first time in his life... 287 00:17:37,656 --> 00:17:39,214 he found something that he could not do... 288 00:17:39,291 --> 00:17:40,622 because he could do everything. 289 00:17:40,692 --> 00:17:42,660 And he'd wake up at 5:00 in the morning. 290 00:17:42,728 --> 00:17:45,526 He had his Berlitz records and books... 291 00:17:45,597 --> 00:17:46,723 and he'd get up, and he'd go... 292 00:17:57,009 --> 00:17:58,135 He could never do it. 293 00:18:00,446 --> 00:18:02,437 We love Vevey. 294 00:18:02,514 --> 00:18:04,379 We like the people. 295 00:18:04,450 --> 00:18:08,284 They are charming, hospitable, and genuine. 296 00:18:14,426 --> 00:18:16,053 And I think... 297 00:18:16,128 --> 00:18:20,656 that is one important thing in the world today... 298 00:18:20,732 --> 00:18:25,999 that people are genuine and kindly. 299 00:18:26,071 --> 00:18:30,838 Uh, you have a lot of talent in Vevey... 300 00:18:30,909 --> 00:18:38,315 and perhaps sometime I may see fit to put them in a picture. 301 00:18:38,383 --> 00:18:39,509 Thank you, Mr. Chaplin. 302 00:18:46,358 --> 00:18:48,622 He had no plans to stop working. 303 00:18:48,694 --> 00:18:50,218 As soon as he had settled down... 304 00:18:50,295 --> 00:18:52,661 Chaplin started writing the film script... 305 00:18:52,731 --> 00:18:54,358 "A King in New York... " 306 00:18:54,433 --> 00:18:56,958 based on his negative experiences in America. 307 00:19:00,072 --> 00:19:01,369 I could have gone to London... 308 00:19:01,440 --> 00:19:03,965 to watch them shooting "A King in New York". 309 00:19:05,110 --> 00:19:07,442 Madame Chaplin had managed to get permission... 310 00:19:07,513 --> 00:19:10,004 for me to get away from school... 311 00:19:10,082 --> 00:19:12,346 but my father refused to let me go... 312 00:19:12,417 --> 00:19:14,510 because he said he didn't know these people. 313 00:19:17,589 --> 00:19:20,023 "A King in New York" premiered in London. 314 00:19:20,092 --> 00:19:23,550 This film was shown in America only 19 years later. 315 00:19:23,629 --> 00:19:25,494 Michael acted with his father. 316 00:19:25,564 --> 00:19:29,056 When I'd gone to see "The Great Dictator... " 317 00:19:29,134 --> 00:19:32,831 I did an imitation of him imitating Hitler. 318 00:19:32,905 --> 00:19:35,874 And he thought that was quite funny... 319 00:19:35,941 --> 00:19:37,533 and I think that he... 320 00:19:37,609 --> 00:19:40,339 gave him the idea of putting me in the part. 321 00:19:40,412 --> 00:19:42,004 - How do you do, Rupert? - How do you do? 322 00:19:42,080 --> 00:19:43,445 Sit down. 323 00:19:43,515 --> 00:19:45,346 And what's that you're reading? 324 00:19:45,417 --> 00:19:46,884 Karl Marx. 325 00:19:46,952 --> 00:19:48,715 Surely you're not a Communist. 326 00:19:48,787 --> 00:19:50,948 Do I have to be a Communist to read Karl Marx? 327 00:19:51,023 --> 00:19:53,014 Rupert! 328 00:19:53,091 --> 00:19:54,615 That's a valid answer. 329 00:19:55,661 --> 00:19:58,152 Well, if you're not a Communist, what are you? 330 00:19:58,230 --> 00:19:59,891 - Nothing. - Nothing? 331 00:19:59,965 --> 00:20:02,092 I dislike all forms of government. 332 00:20:02,167 --> 00:20:04,226 But somebody must rule. 333 00:20:04,303 --> 00:20:06,430 And I don't like the word "rule". 334 00:20:06,505 --> 00:20:08,234 Well, if we don't like the word "rule... " 335 00:20:08,307 --> 00:20:09,968 let's call it leadership. 336 00:20:10,042 --> 00:20:12,203 Leadership in government is political power... 337 00:20:12,277 --> 00:20:13,904 and political power's an official form... 338 00:20:13,979 --> 00:20:15,446 of antagonizing the people. 339 00:20:16,748 --> 00:20:18,773 What magazine did you say he edits? 340 00:20:18,850 --> 00:20:22,377 For once, I really had a... 341 00:20:22,454 --> 00:20:25,389 a memorable moment of communication with him... 342 00:20:25,457 --> 00:20:27,721 which I don't think I... 343 00:20:27,793 --> 00:20:30,489 It was more intense than anything I had with him... 344 00:20:30,562 --> 00:20:31,688 before or after. 345 00:20:39,671 --> 00:20:42,834 In his self-chosen Swiss exile in 1953... 346 00:20:42,908 --> 00:20:46,400 Chaplin met the Romanian-born pianist Clara Haskil... 347 00:20:46,478 --> 00:20:48,639 and a firm friendship developed. 348 00:20:50,682 --> 00:20:53,378 After a concert with a Hungarian quartet... 349 00:20:53,452 --> 00:20:55,750 my parents organized a reception... 350 00:20:55,821 --> 00:20:58,381 and Charles Chaplin turned up alone. 351 00:20:58,457 --> 00:21:01,221 It was his first meeting with Clara Haskil... 352 00:21:01,293 --> 00:21:02,385 and subsequently... 353 00:21:02,461 --> 00:21:05,988 we were regularly invited to the Chaplin home at Christmas. 354 00:21:12,971 --> 00:21:16,930 And she sat at the piano and played. 355 00:21:17,009 --> 00:21:19,136 When she'd finished... 356 00:21:19,211 --> 00:21:22,408 I went up to her in my naive way and I said... 357 00:21:22,481 --> 00:21:27,544 "But you... you are a very great artist". 358 00:21:27,619 --> 00:21:28,745 And she smiled. 359 00:21:30,956 --> 00:21:34,756 Clara Haskil would come every Christmas for dinner... 360 00:21:34,826 --> 00:21:36,020 with the Rossiers... 361 00:21:36,094 --> 00:21:39,427 and we would have a wonderful American dinner. 362 00:21:39,498 --> 00:21:42,899 And after dinner, Clara would play the piano... 363 00:21:42,968 --> 00:21:46,131 and we would all be... my father would weep. 364 00:21:47,339 --> 00:21:54,711 And then he would show a movie, and Clara would laugh and weep. 365 00:21:54,780 --> 00:21:57,044 And they just... they adored each other. 366 00:22:04,423 --> 00:22:07,187 In 1960, at Brussels train station... 367 00:22:07,259 --> 00:22:09,193 Clara Haskil tripped on a stairway... 368 00:22:09,261 --> 00:22:11,729 and sustained severe head injuries. 369 00:22:11,797 --> 00:22:13,662 A few hours later, she died. 370 00:22:13,732 --> 00:22:16,462 In my lifetime... 371 00:22:16,535 --> 00:22:20,096 I have met 3 geniuses: 372 00:22:20,172 --> 00:22:23,107 Professor Einstein, Winston Churchill... 373 00:22:23,175 --> 00:22:25,905 and Clara Haskil. 374 00:22:25,977 --> 00:22:29,845 I'm not a trained musician... 375 00:22:29,915 --> 00:22:35,353 but I can only say that her touch was exquisite... 376 00:22:35,420 --> 00:22:37,684 her expression wonderful... 377 00:22:37,756 --> 00:22:40,486 and her technique extraordinary. 378 00:22:45,497 --> 00:22:47,556 Four other children were born in Switzerland: 379 00:22:47,632 --> 00:22:49,156 Eugene, Jane, Annette... 380 00:22:49,234 --> 00:22:52,692 and finally, in 1962, Christopher. 381 00:22:52,771 --> 00:22:55,001 With his fourth wife, Oona O'Neill... 382 00:22:55,073 --> 00:22:56,904 Chaplin had found happiness. 383 00:22:59,978 --> 00:23:07,612 My mother, uh, was the backbone for my father, you know. 384 00:23:07,686 --> 00:23:10,177 He depended on her a lot. 385 00:23:10,255 --> 00:23:12,849 She spent more time with us than my father. 386 00:23:12,924 --> 00:23:15,984 She really wanted to know how our life was. 387 00:23:19,664 --> 00:23:22,155 They looked to me like a perfect couple. 388 00:23:22,234 --> 00:23:24,930 He lived for her and she for him. 389 00:23:25,003 --> 00:23:26,163 If he looked at a flower... 390 00:23:26,238 --> 00:23:29,366 she would ask why he did so without consulting her. 391 00:23:32,744 --> 00:23:35,372 She obviously wanted to leave the impression... 392 00:23:35,447 --> 00:23:38,041 that she was a good wife... 393 00:23:38,116 --> 00:23:40,141 which is always very praiseworthy... 394 00:23:40,218 --> 00:23:42,778 because you don't get that feeling very often. 395 00:23:42,854 --> 00:23:44,048 They enclosed themselves... 396 00:23:44,122 --> 00:23:45,783 my mother and my father... in that Manoir de Ban. 397 00:23:45,857 --> 00:23:47,484 That was their microcosm. They lived there. 398 00:23:47,559 --> 00:23:50,494 They lived this great, huge, eternal romance there. 399 00:23:50,562 --> 00:23:53,463 She was totally dependent on him... 400 00:23:53,532 --> 00:23:55,693 and that gradually turned the other way round... 401 00:23:55,767 --> 00:23:57,997 where he was totally dependent on her. 402 00:24:13,418 --> 00:24:18,378 Daddy was the president and the minister of interior. 403 00:24:18,457 --> 00:24:21,290 Mummy was the foreign relations. 404 00:24:21,359 --> 00:24:24,851 My mother used to write us letters. 405 00:24:24,930 --> 00:24:26,056 Even when we were at home... 406 00:24:26,131 --> 00:24:29,225 we'd get a little letter slipped under the door saying... 407 00:24:29,301 --> 00:24:31,098 "I didn't approve of what you've done... " 408 00:24:31,169 --> 00:24:33,000 or "Your father doesn't approve... " or whatever. 409 00:24:33,071 --> 00:24:35,938 But we never actually got together for family discussions. 410 00:24:36,007 --> 00:24:38,339 He was a good father, that's for sure... 411 00:24:38,410 --> 00:24:40,935 but he didn't want to be disturbed... 412 00:24:41,012 --> 00:24:42,946 by noises in the house. 413 00:24:43,014 --> 00:24:48,247 He was a bit looking at his daughters. 414 00:24:48,320 --> 00:24:50,413 The girls were favorites. 415 00:24:55,193 --> 00:24:58,890 Comical Uncle Sydney was always a favorite with the family. 416 00:24:58,964 --> 00:25:00,864 He was a great eccentric. 417 00:25:00,932 --> 00:25:04,299 He lived in America... in California. 418 00:25:04,369 --> 00:25:05,996 He never had a house. 419 00:25:06,071 --> 00:25:07,663 He was a very rich man: never had a house. 420 00:25:07,739 --> 00:25:09,536 He lived in a... in a caravan. 421 00:25:09,608 --> 00:25:13,203 Uncle Sydney would come over at least once a week... 422 00:25:13,278 --> 00:25:14,472 with Aunt Gypsy... 423 00:25:14,546 --> 00:25:18,277 and my father and Uncle Sydney would speak in pig Latin. 424 00:25:19,417 --> 00:25:21,817 And they would speak in rhyming slang. 425 00:25:21,887 --> 00:25:24,014 No one would understand them... the Cockney rhyming slang. 426 00:25:25,957 --> 00:25:29,518 A frequent visitor to the Manoir de Ban was Jerry Epstein... 427 00:25:29,594 --> 00:25:32,563 who produced Chaplin's later films. 428 00:25:32,631 --> 00:25:35,623 Celebrities from all over the world traveled to meet Chaplin. 429 00:25:37,869 --> 00:25:40,463 The novelist Graham Greene was a regular visitor... 430 00:25:40,539 --> 00:25:42,302 to the Chaplins' home above Vevey. 431 00:25:42,374 --> 00:25:45,434 He knew Chaplin for many years... 432 00:25:45,510 --> 00:25:47,705 and it was an on-and-off relationship. 433 00:25:47,779 --> 00:25:52,011 They would meet when my father came over to Switzerland. 434 00:25:52,083 --> 00:25:55,484 Um, I... I expect they corresponded. 435 00:25:55,554 --> 00:26:00,218 We saw a Charlie Chaplin film at the Manoir... 436 00:26:00,292 --> 00:26:02,624 and that was the one about the dictator. 437 00:26:02,694 --> 00:26:04,992 He was very proud to show the movie. 438 00:26:09,134 --> 00:26:11,625 Taking an interest in the Swiss film industry... 439 00:26:11,703 --> 00:26:13,796 he met actress Liselotte Pulver... 440 00:26:13,872 --> 00:26:16,067 the star of a Swiss film classic. 441 00:26:16,141 --> 00:26:18,666 I lost immediately the respect. 442 00:26:18,743 --> 00:26:20,142 I didn't think that he was... 443 00:26:20,211 --> 00:26:23,840 the greatest film director of all time. 444 00:26:23,915 --> 00:26:29,080 And, of course, I hoped that he would give me a part... 445 00:26:29,154 --> 00:26:32,351 for instance, in one of his future films... 446 00:26:32,424 --> 00:26:35,916 but he just signed my script. 447 00:26:35,994 --> 00:26:37,928 He went to the government afterwards... 448 00:26:37,996 --> 00:26:39,088 and when he went away... 449 00:26:39,164 --> 00:26:42,327 I had the impression it's an old friend of mine. 450 00:26:50,075 --> 00:26:52,908 The same day, Chaplin was also invited to Bern... 451 00:26:52,978 --> 00:26:55,811 where he met the federal councilor Philipp Etter. 452 00:26:55,880 --> 00:26:59,043 On a sheet of government- letterheaded paper, he wrote... 453 00:26:59,117 --> 00:27:01,347 Hope I meet you some day. 454 00:27:01,419 --> 00:27:02,909 But it was not to be. 455 00:27:02,988 --> 00:27:04,580 From the corridors of power... 456 00:27:04,656 --> 00:27:07,523 eyes were watching him very carefully. 457 00:27:07,592 --> 00:27:09,025 Just as in America... 458 00:27:09,094 --> 00:27:12,461 pages of notes and observations were being accumulated. 459 00:27:20,138 --> 00:27:23,505 Swiss police officers kept a watch on the actor's home. 460 00:27:23,575 --> 00:27:28,069 Uninvited observers were nearby when, at the Manoir de Ban... 461 00:27:28,146 --> 00:27:30,444 Chaplin received the international peace prize... 462 00:27:30,515 --> 00:27:31,675 awarded by Russia. 463 00:27:33,918 --> 00:27:36,318 This photo was taken by Yves Debraine... 464 00:27:36,388 --> 00:27:39,016 who was a guest at the presentation ceremony. 465 00:27:39,090 --> 00:27:41,888 The Swiss police was in civilian clothes... 466 00:27:41,960 --> 00:27:43,928 and there were a few people there. 467 00:27:48,633 --> 00:27:51,568 The guardians of national security were busy. 468 00:27:51,636 --> 00:27:54,298 The names of all present were carefully noted... 469 00:27:54,372 --> 00:27:58,809 and Chief Inspector Campiche sent a full report to Bern. 470 00:27:58,877 --> 00:28:01,744 I heard that, and I didn't want to read about it... 471 00:28:01,813 --> 00:28:02,939 because I love Switzerland... 472 00:28:03,014 --> 00:28:04,845 and I just think it's so disgusting. 473 00:28:11,990 --> 00:28:14,891 The Swiss federal police are finally observed... 474 00:28:14,959 --> 00:28:17,860 about 900,000 people. 475 00:28:17,929 --> 00:28:19,021 In this context... 476 00:28:19,097 --> 00:28:23,158 you find also the observation of Charlie Chaplin. 477 00:28:23,234 --> 00:28:25,168 I think that his private life... 478 00:28:25,236 --> 00:28:30,503 didn't really been spied out very well... 479 00:28:30,575 --> 00:28:32,509 but only his contacts... 480 00:28:32,577 --> 00:28:36,673 to cultural personalities of the Eastern bloc. 481 00:28:51,963 --> 00:28:55,296 Switzerland's own Knie Circus comes to Lausanne. 482 00:28:55,366 --> 00:28:57,994 This evening, there's a famous performer: 483 00:28:58,069 --> 00:29:00,560 Charlie Chaplin himself. 484 00:29:00,638 --> 00:29:02,469 Or so it seems. 485 00:29:02,540 --> 00:29:07,409 The real Charlie Chaplin is in the audience with his wife Oona. 486 00:29:07,479 --> 00:29:09,913 The fake Charlie Chaplin bows low. 487 00:29:09,981 --> 00:29:12,176 The real Chaplin congratulates him. 488 00:29:14,686 --> 00:29:16,745 He always came with the first trailers... 489 00:29:16,821 --> 00:29:20,416 and the first animals who came to the place. 490 00:29:20,492 --> 00:29:22,585 He was also there. 491 00:29:22,660 --> 00:29:26,619 He looked at the circus... how we put it up... 492 00:29:26,698 --> 00:29:28,962 and he asked us was it new. 493 00:29:29,033 --> 00:29:30,398 "What did you change?" 494 00:29:32,704 --> 00:29:34,296 Chaplin's eldest son Michael... 495 00:29:34,372 --> 00:29:38,172 gets a ride on a donkey given to him by the circus. 496 00:29:38,243 --> 00:29:41,041 His famous father is asked to say a few words. 497 00:29:49,654 --> 00:29:52,521 Tonight, we've seen Chaplin again in the big top. 498 00:29:55,293 --> 00:29:56,692 My father loved the circus... 499 00:29:56,761 --> 00:29:59,753 because I think it's the nearest form of art to the music hall. 500 00:30:23,121 --> 00:30:24,383 He loved circus. 501 00:30:24,455 --> 00:30:27,913 There was 4 or 5 days he stayed around the circus. 502 00:30:27,992 --> 00:30:31,359 He was backstage and the afternoons. 503 00:30:31,429 --> 00:30:34,262 I remember when I was a little child... 504 00:30:34,332 --> 00:30:36,960 he invited all the childrens from the circus... 505 00:30:37,035 --> 00:30:40,300 to have tea and cakes at his home. 506 00:30:40,371 --> 00:30:41,565 And then in this moment... 507 00:30:41,639 --> 00:30:44,767 he always showed us some little tricks from the movies. 508 00:30:45,743 --> 00:30:47,677 Chaplin's silent film "The Circus... " 509 00:30:47,745 --> 00:30:49,872 won him an Oscar in 1929. 510 00:30:56,621 --> 00:30:58,020 It was only in the sixties... 511 00:30:58,089 --> 00:31:00,614 that Chaplin wrote the music for this film. 512 00:31:00,692 --> 00:31:03,252 I say this without any false modesty. 513 00:31:03,328 --> 00:31:06,456 I think it has a certain charm, you know? 514 00:31:06,531 --> 00:31:07,623 A certain charm. 515 00:31:07,699 --> 00:31:10,065 And you have. You have. 516 00:31:13,104 --> 00:31:17,564 During his life, Charles Chaplin composed about 500 melodies: 517 00:31:17,642 --> 00:31:20,907 more than 200 of them during his years in Switzerland. 518 00:31:20,979 --> 00:31:22,674 Charlie's... 519 00:31:22,747 --> 00:31:23,839 was in a unique position... 520 00:31:23,915 --> 00:31:29,251 to be able to hear the music in his head very clearly... 521 00:31:29,320 --> 00:31:32,221 and the orchestration also in his head. 522 00:31:32,290 --> 00:31:34,383 Possibly the most significant influence... 523 00:31:34,459 --> 00:31:36,689 that Chaplin exercised on film music... 524 00:31:36,761 --> 00:31:38,626 was to focus it on song. 525 00:31:45,603 --> 00:31:46,831 He never learned music. 526 00:31:46,905 --> 00:31:48,839 He couldn't read music or write music... 527 00:31:48,907 --> 00:31:50,238 but he would compose on the piano... 528 00:31:50,308 --> 00:31:51,775 with a tape recorder going. 529 00:32:02,453 --> 00:32:05,911 He would have an arranger next to him... 530 00:32:05,990 --> 00:32:08,857 which was Eric James at the time... 531 00:32:08,927 --> 00:32:11,293 and he would write down all the music notes. 532 00:32:12,563 --> 00:32:13,689 On 1... 533 00:32:21,072 --> 00:32:22,835 and they're about halfway through. 534 00:32:24,676 --> 00:32:26,268 When he was writing his autobiography, for instance... 535 00:32:26,344 --> 00:32:28,642 he'd come in and sit. "Look, Oona. Read this". 536 00:32:28,713 --> 00:32:31,079 And she'd read it and she'd say, "Well, I don't like this". 537 00:32:31,149 --> 00:32:34,016 "What?!" And he would get furious and... 538 00:32:34,085 --> 00:32:35,677 but really like a beast... 539 00:32:35,753 --> 00:32:40,156 and get in a terrible state and change it. 540 00:32:41,626 --> 00:32:46,461 After that, I have a notion to make a very large comedy... 541 00:32:46,531 --> 00:32:49,364 what one would call an extravaganza: 542 00:32:49,434 --> 00:32:51,629 an extravaganza. 543 00:32:51,703 --> 00:32:54,968 Um, and it's merely a notion now. 544 00:32:55,039 --> 00:32:57,337 It's... I have several ideas... 545 00:32:57,408 --> 00:33:03,347 but the thing hasn't... hasn't any form at present. 546 00:33:06,084 --> 00:33:07,984 Ysobel Deluz was one of the first... 547 00:33:08,052 --> 00:33:11,954 to work closely with Charles Chaplin in Switzerland. 548 00:33:12,023 --> 00:33:13,456 She was his secretary. 549 00:33:14,525 --> 00:33:16,459 Sometimes it was like a crazy film. 550 00:33:16,527 --> 00:33:17,789 He'd say, "Leave that out... " 551 00:33:17,862 --> 00:33:19,489 and a little later, "Did you get that? 552 00:33:19,564 --> 00:33:20,963 "Did you note what I said?" 553 00:33:21,032 --> 00:33:23,023 I'd say, "No. You told me not to". 554 00:33:23,101 --> 00:33:24,728 He would fly into a rage and shout... 555 00:33:24,802 --> 00:33:26,997 "How can I work if you don't put everything down?" 556 00:33:29,207 --> 00:33:32,199 Chaplin's outbursts of temper could be terrifying. 557 00:33:32,276 --> 00:33:35,245 Ysobel Deluz had a nervous breakdown and was dismissed. 558 00:33:35,313 --> 00:33:37,838 She took Chaplin to court and won. 559 00:33:39,384 --> 00:33:40,976 He had a natural authority. 560 00:33:41,052 --> 00:33:42,986 You had to be extremely careful... 561 00:33:43,054 --> 00:33:45,545 and above all, avoid treading on his feet. 562 00:33:46,958 --> 00:33:48,220 He had a couple of people who left... 563 00:33:48,292 --> 00:33:49,418 and who sued him afterwards: 564 00:33:49,494 --> 00:33:52,554 a couple of ugly, ugly episodes. 565 00:33:52,630 --> 00:33:56,122 However, most people liked to work for Chaplin. 566 00:33:56,200 --> 00:33:59,294 Gabriele Di Rito was his hairdresser for 12 years. 567 00:34:01,406 --> 00:34:03,670 We communicated eye to eye. 568 00:34:03,741 --> 00:34:06,403 He seemed to trust me to do a good job... 569 00:34:06,477 --> 00:34:09,742 and I was happy to work for such a celebrity. 570 00:34:09,814 --> 00:34:13,841 I asked 70 francs for cutting Charlie Chaplin's hair. 571 00:34:13,918 --> 00:34:16,011 Madame Chaplin paid me beforehand... 572 00:34:16,087 --> 00:34:17,987 and then left for shopping. 573 00:34:18,056 --> 00:34:19,284 At the end... 574 00:34:19,357 --> 00:34:23,157 Monsieur Chaplin slipped a 100-franc note into my pocket... 575 00:34:23,227 --> 00:34:24,660 and tapped me on the shoulder. 576 00:34:29,033 --> 00:34:31,126 Very, very nice. Very, very nice. 577 00:34:36,174 --> 00:34:38,642 Charles Chaplin chose his 70th birthday... 578 00:34:38,709 --> 00:34:41,837 to express, yet again, his political opinions. 579 00:34:41,913 --> 00:34:45,110 I feel I am privileged to express a hope. 580 00:34:45,183 --> 00:34:49,142 The hope is this... that we shall have peace throughout the world: 581 00:34:49,220 --> 00:34:50,551 that we shall abolish wars... 582 00:34:50,621 --> 00:34:52,384 and settle all international differences... 583 00:34:52,457 --> 00:34:54,391 at the conference table: 584 00:34:54,459 --> 00:34:57,394 that we shall abolish all atom and hydrogen bombs... 585 00:34:57,462 --> 00:34:59,487 before they abolish us. 586 00:34:59,564 --> 00:35:03,056 The future of the modern world demands modern thinking. 587 00:35:17,448 --> 00:35:20,747 My father had a great talent which not a lot of people have. 588 00:35:20,818 --> 00:35:23,116 He started from nothing and made a lot of money. 589 00:35:23,187 --> 00:35:25,985 But the second thing is, and the hardest thing... 590 00:35:26,057 --> 00:35:29,618 is to enjoy the money they've made. 591 00:35:29,694 --> 00:35:31,286 He'd go traveling. He'd go to Italy. 592 00:35:31,362 --> 00:35:32,761 He loved going down to Italy. 593 00:35:54,619 --> 00:36:00,319 Mr. Chaplin rented the chalet from 1962 to 1965. 594 00:36:00,391 --> 00:36:02,484 When he engaged me, I asked him... 595 00:36:02,560 --> 00:36:04,619 "Have you already done some skiing?" 596 00:36:04,695 --> 00:36:06,162 And he said, "Oh, yes. 597 00:36:06,230 --> 00:36:08,892 "I was in St. Moritz when I was younger... 598 00:36:08,966 --> 00:36:10,900 "and I learned to ski there". 599 00:36:10,968 --> 00:36:12,868 So he said, "Good. 600 00:36:12,937 --> 00:36:16,532 "I'll go in front, and you just follow in my tracks". 601 00:36:16,607 --> 00:36:19,770 He was really very serious: scared of falling. 602 00:36:19,844 --> 00:36:22,369 Not a bit like Charlie Chaplin in the films. 603 00:36:24,482 --> 00:36:27,781 He found that it was a lot harder than he'd expected... 604 00:36:27,852 --> 00:36:32,687 and he had a few dramatic falls, but it was quite funny. 605 00:36:33,758 --> 00:36:37,250 I think he just wanted to show Michael that he knew how to ski. 606 00:36:37,328 --> 00:36:38,761 That was his real aim. 607 00:36:50,675 --> 00:36:53,508 In 1966, shooting began on his last film... 608 00:36:53,578 --> 00:36:55,068 "A Countess from Hong Kong". 609 00:36:55,146 --> 00:36:58,047 He was working with a whole new team of people... 610 00:36:58,115 --> 00:37:00,948 and he was held by a time schedule... 611 00:37:01,018 --> 00:37:03,680 which he never had that problem before. 612 00:37:03,754 --> 00:37:05,085 He would play every part... 613 00:37:05,156 --> 00:37:07,249 and he'd always play it better than anyone. 614 00:37:07,325 --> 00:37:09,259 And with Sophia Loren... 615 00:37:10,828 --> 00:37:13,456 he would be more Sophia Loren than Sophia Loren. 616 00:37:13,531 --> 00:37:16,022 He'd do the part, and he was Sophia Loren. 617 00:37:19,270 --> 00:37:20,601 Did I startle you? 618 00:37:26,911 --> 00:37:28,606 Nothing was done in 3 takes. 619 00:37:28,679 --> 00:37:31,477 It was done again and again and again and again. 620 00:37:31,549 --> 00:37:34,450 It took a lot of... 621 00:37:34,518 --> 00:37:37,214 of energy out of him to make this film. 622 00:37:39,156 --> 00:37:42,648 His own 9-second appearance was explained at a press conference. 623 00:37:42,727 --> 00:37:44,388 Well, in the first place, I'm getting on. 624 00:37:44,462 --> 00:37:46,862 I'm 77 years old. 625 00:37:46,931 --> 00:37:50,594 And I believe that with a certain amount of age... 626 00:37:50,668 --> 00:37:54,126 is something to do with the aesthetics. 627 00:37:56,040 --> 00:37:58,634 Excuse me. Do you mind closing all your portholes, sir? 628 00:37:58,709 --> 00:38:00,643 Yes. It seems to be blowing up out there. 629 00:38:00,711 --> 00:38:03,111 Oh, just a little sloppy... nothing serious. 630 00:38:03,180 --> 00:38:04,306 Yeah. 631 00:38:06,183 --> 00:38:08,777 I've been wondering about the immortality of the soul. 632 00:38:11,922 --> 00:38:13,014 It wasn't really much of a part. 633 00:38:13,090 --> 00:38:17,527 I had to just dance with Marlon Brando, which was... 634 00:38:17,595 --> 00:38:18,994 "Thank you, Daddy". 635 00:38:21,265 --> 00:38:24,098 At the premiere in London, no one knew what to expect. 636 00:38:24,168 --> 00:38:27,626 At nearly 80, was yet another masterpiece possible? 637 00:38:27,705 --> 00:38:29,639 The entire world's press was present... 638 00:38:29,707 --> 00:38:31,971 to see Chaplin's first color film. 639 00:38:32,043 --> 00:38:34,170 Take off those pajamas. 640 00:38:34,245 --> 00:38:35,371 Would that look nice? 641 00:38:36,647 --> 00:38:38,877 You heard what I said. Take 'em off. 642 00:38:38,949 --> 00:38:40,473 Oh, please. My nerves. 643 00:38:40,551 --> 00:38:42,519 - Take them off. - Oh, this is silly. 644 00:38:42,586 --> 00:38:44,281 We'll see how silly this is. 645 00:38:52,463 --> 00:38:54,055 Take 'em off. 646 00:38:54,131 --> 00:38:56,463 Oh, please. Do you want me to call the captain? 647 00:38:56,534 --> 00:38:57,626 What a disaster. 648 00:38:57,702 --> 00:38:59,670 Really, what are we doing? 649 00:39:03,207 --> 00:39:05,266 You'll get off this boat if I... 650 00:39:06,944 --> 00:39:08,070 Who is it? 651 00:39:09,113 --> 00:39:11,411 The British critics judged it a flop. 652 00:39:11,482 --> 00:39:14,918 "A disappointing film from Chaplin," went the headlines. 653 00:39:16,454 --> 00:39:18,149 They were disgusting. They really were. 654 00:39:18,222 --> 00:39:19,314 The critics were disgusting. 655 00:39:19,390 --> 00:39:20,584 It's so easy, also. 656 00:39:22,326 --> 00:39:24,624 He was extraordinarily upset. 657 00:39:24,695 --> 00:39:26,629 I think deep down he knew... 658 00:39:26,697 --> 00:39:28,722 it wasn't exactly as he wanted it. 659 00:39:36,807 --> 00:39:39,332 Yet even here, Chaplin reaped a success. 660 00:39:39,410 --> 00:39:41,605 His composition "This Is My Song... " 661 00:39:41,679 --> 00:39:43,271 the film's theme tune... 662 00:39:43,347 --> 00:39:45,815 became a worldwide hit overnight. 663 00:39:45,883 --> 00:39:49,683 When I was in Charlie's living room... 664 00:39:49,754 --> 00:39:52,052 he was prancing around the room singing... 665 00:39:52,123 --> 00:39:53,715 and me banging away on the piano... 666 00:39:53,791 --> 00:39:55,725 which was a very strange scene. 667 00:39:55,793 --> 00:39:57,886 Um, but it was fun. 668 00:39:57,962 --> 00:39:59,259 And I said to him, you know... 669 00:39:59,330 --> 00:40:01,594 "OK, this is 3 big hits you've got. 670 00:40:01,665 --> 00:40:02,825 "Do you have anything else?" 671 00:40:02,900 --> 00:40:05,596 And he said, "Yes, yes, yes. I have many songs". 672 00:40:05,669 --> 00:40:08,604 And he took them out of some cupboard... 673 00:40:08,672 --> 00:40:11,573 and played some of them to me. 674 00:40:11,642 --> 00:40:14,008 And they were good. 675 00:40:14,078 --> 00:40:18,037 And I've often wondered what happened to those songs. 676 00:40:18,115 --> 00:40:24,816 And love, this is my song 677 00:40:24,889 --> 00:40:32,193 Here is a song, a serenade 678 00:40:32,263 --> 00:40:40,170 To you 679 00:40:50,915 --> 00:40:53,884 The 8 Chaplin children were gradually growing up. 680 00:40:53,951 --> 00:40:56,385 One by one, they left the Manoir de Ban... 681 00:40:56,454 --> 00:40:58,888 and sometimes the partings from the family home... 682 00:40:58,956 --> 00:41:00,583 left indelible traces. 683 00:41:00,658 --> 00:41:01,750 I don't know if I left. 684 00:41:01,826 --> 00:41:03,623 I think I was kicked out, actually. 685 00:41:05,896 --> 00:41:07,363 Well, I say I left. 686 00:41:07,431 --> 00:41:08,728 And Michael certainly left. 687 00:41:08,799 --> 00:41:11,859 When I was 16, I left home. I ran away. 688 00:41:11,936 --> 00:41:14,837 I just couldn't live up to what he expected of me... 689 00:41:14,905 --> 00:41:16,463 and I left without saying where I was going. 690 00:41:16,540 --> 00:41:19,441 And I think it kind of hurt my mother a lot... 691 00:41:19,510 --> 00:41:22,741 and he had a hard time forgiving me for that. 692 00:41:26,050 --> 00:41:27,642 In the sixties and the seventies... 693 00:41:27,718 --> 00:41:30,084 Charles Chaplin received numerous honors. 694 00:41:30,154 --> 00:41:33,487 Oxford University awarded him an honorary doctorate. 695 00:41:33,557 --> 00:41:35,957 Holland honored him in 1965. 696 00:41:37,361 --> 00:41:40,421 He said, "Unfortunately, I've won this prize... 697 00:41:40,498 --> 00:41:43,467 "this Erasmus prize... 698 00:41:43,534 --> 00:41:47,561 "and I have to unfortunately share it... the prize... 699 00:41:47,638 --> 00:41:48,969 "with another person. 700 00:41:49,039 --> 00:41:50,506 "I don't know who that is... 701 00:41:50,574 --> 00:41:57,946 "but I think his name is something like, uh, um... 702 00:41:58,015 --> 00:41:59,277 "Berger. 703 00:41:59,350 --> 00:42:02,319 "Um, something Berger. 704 00:42:02,386 --> 00:42:06,516 "Uh, Ing-Ingman... Ingman Berger". 705 00:42:06,590 --> 00:42:09,320 I said, "No, Ingmar Bergman". 706 00:42:09,393 --> 00:42:11,793 "Oh. Who's that? He's Norwegian, I'm told". 707 00:42:11,862 --> 00:42:13,420 "No, no, he's Swedish". 708 00:42:13,497 --> 00:42:15,590 "Oh, he's Swedish. Oh, yes". 709 00:42:16,967 --> 00:42:20,733 Chaplin and Peter Ustinov were born on the 16th of April. 710 00:42:20,804 --> 00:42:22,135 Ustinov well remembers... 711 00:42:22,206 --> 00:42:24,470 the laudatory speech he made in Amsterdam. 712 00:42:24,542 --> 00:42:25,975 I was called onto the stage... 713 00:42:26,043 --> 00:42:30,343 in order to do my soliloquy in praise of Chaplin... 714 00:42:30,414 --> 00:42:33,008 and the applause was not one... 715 00:42:33,083 --> 00:42:36,052 which would encourage anybody to go on speaking. 716 00:42:36,120 --> 00:42:38,247 I finished, and suddenly... 717 00:42:40,157 --> 00:42:42,455 Tremendous applause, and I looked around. 718 00:42:42,526 --> 00:42:43,823 I said to myself... 719 00:42:43,894 --> 00:42:47,193 "It's impossible that they've all understood the jokes now". 720 00:42:47,264 --> 00:42:48,356 No, it wasn't that. 721 00:42:48,432 --> 00:42:51,162 It was Chaplin was on his way to the podium... 722 00:42:51,235 --> 00:42:53,635 to push me aside and make his speech. 723 00:42:53,704 --> 00:42:56,264 And like a well-trained comic... 724 00:42:56,340 --> 00:42:57,773 he had used me, really... 725 00:42:57,841 --> 00:43:00,207 as somebody to warm the public up. 726 00:43:01,745 --> 00:43:04,873 Chaplin was made an honorary citizen of Milan, Italy... 727 00:43:04,949 --> 00:43:07,144 but despite several applications... 728 00:43:07,217 --> 00:43:10,550 he was never granted honorary citizenship in Switzerland. 729 00:43:10,621 --> 00:43:12,282 In London, his birthplace... 730 00:43:12,356 --> 00:43:14,756 he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth ll. 731 00:43:16,961 --> 00:43:19,452 We boarded the same flight... American Airlines... 732 00:43:19,530 --> 00:43:21,293 from New York to Los Angeles. 733 00:43:21,365 --> 00:43:23,526 He was very happy to see old friends. 734 00:43:23,601 --> 00:43:28,766 He was anticipating a return to where he has been so often... 735 00:43:28,839 --> 00:43:30,101 and he was not nervous... 736 00:43:30,174 --> 00:43:33,143 but he was happily looking forward. 737 00:43:36,113 --> 00:43:39,241 The honorary Oscar awarded for lifetime achievement... 738 00:43:39,316 --> 00:43:40,806 was a late reconciliation... 739 00:43:40,884 --> 00:43:43,148 with the land that had humiliated him... 740 00:43:43,220 --> 00:43:45,245 yet helped him to achieve fame. 741 00:43:45,322 --> 00:43:49,019 Oh, you're wonderful, sweet people. 742 00:43:49,093 --> 00:43:50,321 Thank you. 743 00:43:50,394 --> 00:43:53,921 At that time, a standing ovation was something exceptional... 744 00:43:53,998 --> 00:43:56,466 and the one for Charlie was more exceptional... 745 00:43:56,533 --> 00:43:59,502 because of the incredible warmth everybody gave him. 746 00:43:59,570 --> 00:44:03,131 Up there are clouds in the sky 747 00:44:03,207 --> 00:44:06,267 Oona told me what's happened there onstage. 748 00:44:06,343 --> 00:44:07,776 He was so touched. 749 00:44:07,845 --> 00:44:11,246 He took the hand from Oona and asked her... 750 00:44:11,315 --> 00:44:14,375 "You think they forgive me... the Americans?" 751 00:44:19,957 --> 00:44:21,049 My sister Josephine and I... 752 00:44:21,125 --> 00:44:22,922 I remember we were very, very much against him... 753 00:44:22,993 --> 00:44:24,426 going back to the United States. 754 00:44:24,495 --> 00:44:25,587 We tried everything we could... 755 00:44:25,663 --> 00:44:28,188 to make him not go back to the States, and he went. 756 00:44:28,265 --> 00:44:30,495 And we were so wrong, because it was for him. 757 00:44:30,567 --> 00:44:32,364 It gave him a new lease on life... 758 00:44:32,436 --> 00:44:33,926 when he did go back to the States. 759 00:44:34,004 --> 00:44:36,768 They gave him a visa of only 10 days... 760 00:44:36,840 --> 00:44:38,967 and we thought, "Oh, this is disgusting. 761 00:44:39,043 --> 00:44:40,874 "Oh, Daddy, how dare they?" and everything. 762 00:44:40,944 --> 00:44:42,172 He was thrilled. 763 00:44:42,246 --> 00:44:44,771 He said, "They're still scared of me". 764 00:44:59,863 --> 00:45:01,455 The closest moments I ever had with him... 765 00:45:01,532 --> 00:45:03,932 were when I was grown up: 766 00:45:04,001 --> 00:45:05,559 uh, when I was... 767 00:45:05,636 --> 00:45:08,127 when I was back after I'd started my own career... 768 00:45:08,205 --> 00:45:09,900 towards the end of his life. 769 00:45:22,653 --> 00:45:24,917 Sometimes he'd say, "I love you... " 770 00:45:24,988 --> 00:45:27,786 and that would just destroy me. 771 00:45:29,560 --> 00:45:30,686 Just the "I love you". 772 00:45:32,396 --> 00:45:34,193 He didn't say it often, but when he did, it was... 773 00:45:35,466 --> 00:45:36,558 He had one side of him... 774 00:45:36,633 --> 00:45:40,364 which was certainly someone who enjoyed life... 775 00:45:40,437 --> 00:45:41,529 but he had another side... 776 00:45:41,605 --> 00:45:44,836 which was someone who could get very angry... 777 00:45:44,908 --> 00:45:49,538 and seemed sometimes quite unreasonable. 778 00:45:49,613 --> 00:45:54,550 He was introverted, because he never express himself freely. 779 00:45:54,618 --> 00:45:58,213 He was always on the... kind of reserve... 780 00:45:58,288 --> 00:46:01,189 or kind of self-control. 781 00:46:01,258 --> 00:46:04,284 He was tres anglais: very British. 782 00:46:05,529 --> 00:46:07,463 He was very, very self-absorbed. 783 00:46:07,531 --> 00:46:08,623 He loved the fire. 784 00:46:08,699 --> 00:46:11,668 He would sit in front of the fire winter and summer. 785 00:46:11,735 --> 00:46:13,669 And at the end of his days... 786 00:46:13,737 --> 00:46:15,671 my mother used to try and get him up and get him out: 787 00:46:15,739 --> 00:46:17,001 say, "Come on. You must get out". 788 00:46:17,074 --> 00:46:19,907 And he'd say, "It's my only luxury". 789 00:46:46,436 --> 00:46:47,528 During the seventies... 790 00:46:47,604 --> 00:46:50,266 a silence crept over the Manoir de Ban. 791 00:46:50,340 --> 00:46:52,274 Chaplin was now over 80... 792 00:46:52,342 --> 00:46:55,675 and the man whose youthful charm had seemed indestructible... 793 00:46:55,746 --> 00:46:58,579 was gradually losing his vitality. 794 00:46:58,649 --> 00:47:01,709 Doggedly, however, he continued working. 795 00:47:01,785 --> 00:47:03,412 More melodies emerged... 796 00:47:03,487 --> 00:47:06,650 and the idea for a new film refused to go away... 797 00:47:06,723 --> 00:47:08,486 but his strength was fading. 798 00:47:08,559 --> 00:47:16,125 Well, death comes to us very reluctantly... 799 00:47:16,200 --> 00:47:17,326 and, uh... 800 00:47:20,470 --> 00:47:22,768 life is marvelous. 801 00:47:29,746 --> 00:47:30,838 Right to the end... 802 00:47:30,914 --> 00:47:34,179 Chaplin continued working on a last film... "The Freak". 803 00:47:34,251 --> 00:47:35,809 The manuscript is now in the care... 804 00:47:35,886 --> 00:47:37,979 of the Chaplin archives in Montreux. 805 00:47:45,495 --> 00:47:47,087 Despite his advanced age... 806 00:47:47,164 --> 00:47:48,654 Chaplin continued to believe... 807 00:47:48,732 --> 00:47:51,326 that he would one day direct "The Freak". 808 00:47:51,401 --> 00:47:58,330 We're going to make a picture called, uh, "The Freak". 809 00:48:00,277 --> 00:48:04,771 That's an angel with wink... wings. 810 00:48:04,848 --> 00:48:07,146 My sister Vicki left home... 811 00:48:07,217 --> 00:48:08,844 and he'd written this film for her... 812 00:48:08,919 --> 00:48:10,978 and she really broke his heart with that. 813 00:48:13,557 --> 00:48:16,651 This was the run-up to the first shooting sessions. 814 00:48:16,727 --> 00:48:19,218 Chaplin was reliving the years of long ago... 815 00:48:19,296 --> 00:48:22,459 feeling again the creativeness and happiness of those times. 816 00:48:22,532 --> 00:48:24,056 Sadly, the film was never made... 817 00:48:24,134 --> 00:48:26,602 because he was already very old and easily tired. 818 00:48:49,493 --> 00:48:52,394 In 1977, in Vevey, for the last time... 819 00:48:52,462 --> 00:48:55,329 Charles Chaplin watched Rolf Knie as a clown. 820 00:48:55,399 --> 00:48:57,492 When Charlie came the last time to the circus... 821 00:48:57,567 --> 00:48:58,966 and I crossed the ring... 822 00:48:59,036 --> 00:49:02,403 and from far away he made like that to me... 823 00:49:02,472 --> 00:49:05,270 and that means it's, uh... 824 00:49:05,342 --> 00:49:07,674 it heated my heart. 825 00:49:07,744 --> 00:49:09,302 During the last weeks of his life... 826 00:49:09,379 --> 00:49:11,074 he watched quite a lot of TV. 827 00:49:12,816 --> 00:49:15,148 And it was amazing... 828 00:49:15,218 --> 00:49:18,278 'cause you thought his mind was elsewhere. 829 00:49:18,355 --> 00:49:19,754 A lot was going on in his head... 830 00:49:19,823 --> 00:49:22,553 but he couldn't communicate it, so... 831 00:49:24,628 --> 00:49:27,153 Chaplin's last appearance on film was at home... 832 00:49:27,230 --> 00:49:29,698 during the wine harvest festival. 833 00:49:29,766 --> 00:49:33,429 These silent pictures are shown here for the first time. 834 00:49:33,503 --> 00:49:36,438 Charlie Chaplin back where he began. 835 00:49:36,506 --> 00:49:39,907 No words are needed to remember this great artist. 836 00:50:03,400 --> 00:50:04,594 This is for you, Charlie. 837 00:50:15,045 --> 00:50:19,106 Why is my heart so light? 838 00:50:19,182 --> 00:50:23,482 Why are the stars so bright? 839 00:50:23,553 --> 00:50:27,080 Why is the sky so blue 840 00:50:27,157 --> 00:50:32,618 Since the hour I met you? 841 00:50:32,696 --> 00:50:36,928 Flowers are smiling bright 842 00:50:37,000 --> 00:50:41,232 Smiling for our delight 843 00:50:41,304 --> 00:50:45,297 Smiling so tenderly 844 00:50:45,375 --> 00:50:50,335 For the world, you and me 845 00:51:11,701 --> 00:51:19,574 Love, this is my song 846 00:51:19,643 --> 00:51:20,735 Hello, Dad. 847 00:51:20,811 --> 00:51:23,143 Uh, I know you're up there somewhere... 848 00:51:23,213 --> 00:51:26,649 and I hope it's good up there. 849 00:51:28,318 --> 00:51:29,444 Miss you and love you. 850 00:51:29,519 --> 00:51:35,151 World cannot be wrong 851 00:51:35,225 --> 00:51:39,491 If in this world 852 00:51:39,563 --> 00:51:42,999 There is you 853 00:51:44,234 --> 00:51:52,164 I care not what the world may say 854 00:51:52,242 --> 00:51:58,841 Without your love there is no day 855 00:51:58,915 --> 00:52:01,110 Be well, wherever you are... 856 00:52:01,184 --> 00:52:04,278 and probably see you soon, if I'm lucky. 857 00:52:04,354 --> 00:52:05,787 This is my song 858 00:52:05,856 --> 00:52:09,155 Bye-bye, Charlie. Thanks for your magnificent career. 859 00:52:11,795 --> 00:52:13,262 You too, Charlie. 860 00:52:13,330 --> 00:52:15,525 I'll remember your bowler and your cane... 861 00:52:15,599 --> 00:52:16,896 and your little mustache. 862 00:52:19,369 --> 00:52:20,836 Daddy, don't come back. 863 00:52:20,904 --> 00:52:22,496 Stay where you are, please. 864 00:52:22,572 --> 00:52:24,506 This is not a nice world. 865 00:52:24,574 --> 00:52:26,405 You, who were such an optimist... 866 00:52:26,476 --> 00:52:28,410 and who really thought that things would work out... 867 00:52:28,478 --> 00:52:31,538 don't come back now, but leave the Little Tramp here. 868 00:52:31,615 --> 00:52:42,651 This is my song