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Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif., August 29, 1928.
Hannah Chaplin, Los Angeles, undated
& Lily Harley (Hannah Chaplin), undated, published in
Charles Chaplin, My Life in Pictures, London, 1974, detail
& The Circus Still, detail
& The only photograph of Charles Chaplin and his mother, the
late Mrs. Hannah Chaplin. Mrs. Chaplin, who died
in California recently, had been in ill-health for years. In her
youth she was a well-known stage star in England.
(...) Photoplay, Nov. 1928
„On the verge of collapse“
Editorial content. „DEATH CALLS MRS. CHAPLIN
Mother of Film Comedians
Expires in Hospital
Celebrated Actor at Bedside
as End Comes
Other Son Absent in Paris;
Funeral Arranged
Simple services will mark the last rites for Mrs. Hannah
Chaplin, 61 years of age, mother of Charles and Sydney
Chaplin. The funeral services will be conducted privately from
the William Strother mortuary in Hollywood Thursday
or Friday afternoon, according to announcement yesterday.
Interment will be at the Hollywood Cemetery.
Alfred Reeves, general manager at Chaplin studio,
announced in behalf of Chaplin that aside from
the family the services will be attended only by close friends
of his mother. Services will be Episcopalian.
CHARLES AT BEDSIDE
Mrs. Chaplin died at noon yesterday at the Physicians‘ and
Surgeons‘ Hospital in Glendale, where she was taken
little more than a month ago, after being stricken with a serious
internal disorder. Charles was at her bedside when
death came.
On Sunday and Monday Mrs. Chaplin rallied when her son
visited her at the hospital and it was then believed that
she had passed the crisis of her illness. Chaplin, however, was
summoned hurriedly to her bedside yesterday morning,
and she died three hours later. Friends of Chaplin say the comedian
is prostrated with grief over his mother‘s death and on the
verge of collapse at his home.
Sydney Chaplin is in a small town in France outside of Paris
working for an English picture company and he was
notified by cable of his mother‘s death. He and Charlie are
the only surviving relatives of Mrs. Chaplin.
CAME FROM ENGLAND
Mrs. Chaplin came to this country seven years ago from
England to reside with her sons. On her arrival in this
country she was suffering from a mental disorder due to shock
suffered during air raids on London. Each year her
condition has improved and the Federal government made
special provision for her to remain in this country.
Charles and Sydney were allowed to keep her here by
posting bond and it was only two weeks ago that
the government renewed the permit.
Mrs. Chaplin was born in London and when young began
a career on the stage, appearing on the continent under
the name of Lily Harley with the Gilbert and Sullivan light operas,
being well known on the British stage. She gave up her
career when her children were born. her husband was Charles Spencer Chaplin, Sr., well-known as an actor. He died
thirty years ago.
When his mother came to this country Charles built
a home for her in the San Fernando Valley near Lankershim,
where she had always lived.“
Photo. „Funmaker Walks With Sorrow
He Brought Her to Share His Success
Charles Spencer Chaplin and his mother who passed away
here yesterday after long illness.“
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