What a Creep: Charlie Chaplin (Old Timey Hollywood Creep)

<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>What a Creep: Charlie Chaplin</strong></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Season 9, Episode 8</strong></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><strong>"Old Timey Hollywood Creep"</strong></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><strong><img src= "https://assets.libsyn.com/secure/show/176387/MV5BNDcwMDc0ODAzOF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwNTY2OTI1MDE._V1_UY1200_CR7306301200_AL_.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="571" /></strong></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Charlie Chaplin is one of the most influential and recognizable faces in movies. The image of the Little Tramp is a part of cultural history. It’s shorthand for classic movies.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Chaplin wrote, directed, produced, edited, starred in, and composed the music for most of his movies. Six of Chaplin's films have been selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the United States Library of Congress: “The Immigrant,” “The Kid,” “The Gold Rush,” “City Lights,” “Modern Times,” and “The Great Dictator.”</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Chaplin was also a womanizing control freak who had sex with underage girls.</span></p> <p><strong>Sources for this episode include:</strong></p> <div style="margin-left: 2em"> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><a href= "https://www.charliechaplin.com/en/biography/articles/220-Charlie-Chaplin-s-Wives"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Charlie Chaplin official website</span></a></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><a href= "https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2597412/2-000-lovers-comedy-genius-didnt-like-women-New-book-reveals-Charlie-Chaplins-obsession-young-girls-cruelly-treated-them.html"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">“Charlie Chaplin” by Peter Ackroyd</span></a></li> </ul> </div> <p> </p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><em><a href= "http://www.amazon.com/Charlie-Chaplin-Brief-Ackroyds-Lives/dp/0385537379"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Charlie Chaplin: A Brief Life</sp