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Tribute: Geraldine Chaplin
You’re invited to a once-in-a-lifetime event…

The daughter of screen legends Charlie Chaplin and Oona O’Neill, Geraldine Chaplin quickly became Hollywood royalty herself since making her screen debut in her father’s own Limelight. Over the course of her half-century-plus acting career, Chaplin has worked with the world’s greatest directors, including David Lean (Doctor Zhivago), Robert Altman (Nashville), Martin Scorsese (The Age of Innocence), Claude Lelouch (Bolero), and Pedro Almodòvar (Talk to Her). In 1992 she played her own grandmother, Hannah Chaplin in Richard Attenborough’s Chaplin, for which she received a Golden Globe nomination—the third of her career. More recently, she won a Festival Silver Hugo for Best Actress in the 2014 independent drama Sand Dollars.

Geraldine Chaplin will appear onstage at the Essanay Studios, the exact soundstage where her father shot His New Job, his first film in Chicago, for this once-in-a-lifetime evening. Clips from her career, as well as her father’s Essanay film, will accompany a wide-ranging conversation on her life, work and family with Festival Founder Michael Kutza.


7:00pm – Cocktails and hors d’oeurves
8:00pm – Tribute and Award presentation

EVENT INFORMATION
Saturday, October 15 @ 7:00 pm
Location
Essanay Studios
1345 W Argyle St.
Chicago, IL 60640
Tickets
Individual tickets are $75 each and may be ordered by calling the
Festival hotline at 312-332-FILM (3456) or visiting the festival box office.

Though I was not well enough- or for that matter, "well off" enough- to attend,
a friend, a fellow Nitrateville member, did ----- and here is an edited review of the event
that I received via email from the member

Chicago International Film Festival Logo

1. The director/founder of the festival, Michael Kutza,
told of slipping a Chicago Film Festival business card to Charlie Chaplin at the 1972 Venice Film Fest,
and of how Chaplin asked if the eyes depicted In the Chicago Festival logo were his (Chaplin's). They aren't .
2. Kutza told of how Chicago resident Colleen Moore had been an extra at the Chicago Essanay studio,
and how she got ex-love King Vidor to attend the very 1st Festival, which was also held in the same Essanay studio
building.
3. Claude Lelouch, a former Geraldine director- in the audience for the tribute- told of how he once assisted an elderly Charlie
up the steps of a Parisian screening room, and how Chaplin tipped him, not knowing who Lelouch was.
4. Along with Geraldine career clips- including her kid cameo in Limelight- there were specially filmed tributes
from biographer David Robinson, Alan Rudolph, a superfluous Chaz Palminteri, and an unrecognizable
Keith Carradine -whose contribution was seemingly self-shot with a circa-1990 cellphone
5. I had hoped to ask questions concerning Uncles Syd and Wheeler, and if she ever attended
a Jefferson Airplane concert in the Spencer Dryden era, but there was no Q & A session.