Charlie Chaplin Quotes
Filmmaker
Charlie Chaplin was filmmaker from Great Britain
“Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles.”— Charlie Chaplin
From the film Monsieur Verdoux (1947). Chaplin said this after decades of losing his mother, surviving poverty, being exiled from Hollywood, and hunted by the FBI. He paid for these words. This is not comfort from someone who has it easy. This is the conclusion of a man who went through hell and came out the other side.
The Story of Charlie
Vevey
Chaplin spent 25 years in Switzerland. In 1972 the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences invited him back to Hollywood and presented him with an honorary Oscar. The audience gave him a standing ovation that lasted 12 minutes, the longest in the history of the ceremony. Chaplin died on December 25, 1977, in Vevey. He was 88. Three months later, his coffin was stolen from the cemetery and a ransom was demanded. Oona refused to pay. The coffin was found 11 weeks later in a cornfield nearby.
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