Photographs

Already a Star With Karno

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Postcard image from Cinemagazine c. July/August 1912

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From a British postcard of Chaplin issued in the early 1920s

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Chaplin and Billie Reeves on tour in America with the Karno Company (Los Angeles, 1910). Billie Reeves fashioned the role of the drunk in the Karno sketch Mumming Birds - a role which Chaplin later assumed and made famous

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Charlie Chaplin in 1913

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Charles Chaplin (1912)

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Portrait taken on the Karno tour 1912-13. The picture was presented with Picture Show magazine, November 8th 1919

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Chaplin c.1910

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A Karno programme from The Oxford, 13 December 1909

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The Karno company on tour in the USA. Charles Chaplin is on the right

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The Karno company heading to the USA. Charlie Chaplin is framed in the life belt. Albert Austin is top left and Stan Laurel is front row left.

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The Oxford theatre

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Charles Chaplin as Archibald in the Karno sketch Skating

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Fred Karno

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