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Charlie Chaplin demanded 'City Lights' co-star to do 342 retakes of one scene

Updated on: 15 December,2013 11:53 PM IST  | 
ANI |

Charlie Chaplin made 'City Lights' co-star Virginia Cherrill perform one scene for 342 times in the 1931 film, it has been revealed through the behind-the-scenes footage released by film archive the Criterion Collection.

Charlie Chaplin demanded 'City Lights' co-star to do 342 retakes of one scene

Cherrill, who was not a professional actress, but a socialite that Chaplin had spotted in the crowd at a boxing match, had to say only two words – u00a0“Flower sir?” –in the silent film, CNN reported.u00a0


Charlie Chaplin
Charlie Chaplin. Pic/AFP


According to Hooman Mehran, the author of ‘Chaplin’s Limelight and the Music Hall Tradition’, Chaplin was a perfectionist, the king of the re-take.


Mehran asserted that Cherrill’s performance was just a three-minute sequence in the finished film but he took her to task, even though it was a silent film.

In the black and white movie Cherrill played a blind flower girl who mistakes Chaplin, the tramp, for a wealthy man.

Mehran added that the Oscar-winning comedian was a one man show, as not only was he the director, he was the writer, he was the producer and when music came in, he was a composer too.u00a0

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