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Tramp

The Life of Charlie Chaplin

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Auteur(s): Joyce Milton
Narrateur(s): Clinton Wade
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Charlie Chaplin made an amazing 71 films by the time he was only 33 years old. He was not only known as the world’s first international movie star, but as a comedian, film director, and a man ripe with scandal, accused of plagiarism, communism, pacifism, liberalism, and anti-Americanism. He seduced young women, marrying four different times, each time to a woman younger than the next.

In this animated biography of Chaplin, Joyce Milton reveals to us a life riddled with gossip and a struggle to rise from an impoverished London childhood to the life of a successful American film star. Milton shows us how the creation of his famous character - The Tramp, the Little Fellow - was both rewarding and then devastating as he became obsolete with the changes of time.

Tramp is a perceptive, clever, and captivating biography of a talented and complicated man whose life was filled with scandal, politics, and art.

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Charlie Chaplin made 81 films in his impressive career - and Joyce Wilson makes sure that she discusses the conception, plot, and filming of each and every one of them. She follows a strict linear chronological storytelling structure - from impoverished beginnings on the British Vaudeville circuit to incredible power wielded as a Hollywood icon - while also reporting what was publicly known to be occurring in the actor's personal life (love affairs, divorces, lawsuits, etc.).
The result is a punctiliously accurate biography that is inadvertantly quite superficial - notwithstanding discussons of controversial elements of his life like his Harvey Weinstein-like sex acts, psychiatric struggles, and communist politics. There is plenty of background for forming an opinion.. but I was never able to get a grasp on who the *man* was (Wilson offers voluminous detail and precious little insight).

Unfortunately, the book is also made a more difficult read with a strikingly poor narration. Reader Clinton Wade displays an emotionless tone and reads with an irritating staccato Iambic cadence (every second syllable emphasized). Reviewers comparing Wade to a "text-to-speech" app are sadly accurate (setting playback speed at 1.25X helped somewhat.. but this performance is straight-up awful).

Altogether, I rate 'Tramp' a disappointing 4 stars out of 10. As a 'Plus' selection (included with my subscription), it was an information-packed biography that was a serviceable distraction for a couple of quiet afternoons.. but paying a Credit for this audiobook would be a head-shaker.

ATTN PRODUCERS: An appended PDF with photographs would improve this product markedly

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