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Chaplin was the mother of actor and filmmaker Charlie Chaplin and his two half-brothers, the actor Sydney Chaplin and the film director Wheeler Dryden and grandmother of Jefferson Airplane drummer and songwriter Spencer Dryden.
- Hannah Hill, Hannah Hill Chaplin, Lily Harley
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Mar 20, 2015 · Charlis Chaplin’s parents on both sides were Jewish it would seem, according to an interview he has given here to the “Neue Freie Presse”, in which he describes his mother as a ghetto beauty,...
Charlie Chaplin always cited his own mother as a great inspiration on both his performance techniques and his outlook on life. Hannah was a singer and character comedienne in the British music halls with the stage name of Lily Harley, and she did enjoy some success. Hannah Chaplin, circa 1885. Sadly her career was plagued on and off by ill ...
Apr 16, 2012 · News brief items in JTA’s Jewish Daily Bulletin conveyed claims that Chaplin was Jewish on his mother’s side; through a grandfather, as Albert Einstein claimed; on both sides and not at all.
- Adam Soclof
The legend that Charlie Chaplin was a Jew was widely held at one time. Israel Zangwill accepted him as such in some of his essays on the Jewish question.
Feb 17, 2012 · “This might refer to paying another visit, or it might denote his origin as Russia,” noted senior MI5 officer W.M.T. Magan, speculating that Chaplin might have come from a Jewish family fleeing...
Mar 5, 2011 · His mother, Hannah Hill, appeared in music halls under her stage name, Lily Harley. Chaplin was born in 1889 – probably in Walworth in south London, but possibly in Smethwick. When Hannah...