In Runet, a quote from a letter that the actor allegedly sent his daughter Geraldine is popular. We checked the reliability of such publications.
The phrase attributed to Chaplin is given in two versions: a shorter “I have never been an angel, but I always tried to be a person” and a longer, final call “Try you and you”. She meets in Facebook, "VKontakte"And on sites With quotes famous people. Sometimes it is specified that this phrase is taken from Letters, which the actor wrote to his daughter Geraldine: “Charlie Chaplin, the father of 12 children, in 1965, being a wise old man of 76 years old, wrote a letter to his 21-year-old daughter Jeraldine, looking for himself in a dance on the Parisian stage,”- It is said In such posts. Some, such as the historical magazine "Amateur", even Publishing This is a touching and inspiring letter.
Charles Spencer Chaplin was born In 1889, he was married four times and became a father 11 children. Geraldin was born in 1944, in childhood she really was engaged in ballet, but by 1965, when a letter was supposedly written, she had already switched to an acting career: in November 1964, her Approved for the role of Tony Bustko in the film "Dr. Zhivago". Most part of the film starred in Madrid, and after filming Geraldine for a long time Remained Live in this city. No reliable sources that at that time she tried to build a career as a dancer in Paris was “verified” to find.
The alleged letter that Chaplin sent to his daughter, Distributed and in English -speaking The Internet segment, there it appeared no later than the 2010s. In particular, in 2013 in article For the Canadian scientific magazine, Transcultural, a researcher from Ottawa University Maryam Mohammadi Dekhcheshme spoke about it. She writes that in Iran the so -called Chaplin letter has been popular for several decades. In 2012, after quotes from the letter were shown at the exhibition "Modesty and hijab" In the large chapel complex of Tehran as a “document condemning obscenity”, the Serat news agency Interview The present author of this letter, journalist Farajolla Saba. According to Saba, he wrote this text for the magazine Rošanfekrwho went out in Iran in the 1950-1970s.
In this publication there was a section “Fantasy”, in which fictional letters were published. Once a Saba, who, according to him, was an editor at that time, decided to write a text for this section himself, because he was dissatisfied with the previous issues. He chose the topic by chance, seeing a photograph of Charlie Chaplin with his daughter in another magazine. However, due to error during preparation for the press, this column was published without the name of the heading, and readers took the letter as real. “He was recited at various events, often read on radio and television, sold at Tehran University,” Saba recalls. “No one paid attention to my assurances that this is not Chaplin.”
After the victory of the Islamic Revolution, some Iranians emigrated to Turkey (since then the Iranian community in this country Only increased), and as a result, the popular text among them spread to Turkish. Then, probably, with the help of the Turkish diaspora in Germany, he became known in German, later spread in English, and at some point was translated into Russian. According to Saba, these translations (especially English) gave the text additional legitimacy. “At some events where I was present, they read this letter, and when I said that it was the fruit of my imagination, they did not believe me and answered:“ What are you talking about? We saw his English version! ”, He recalled in an interview. In the text about Farajolla Saba on the website of the Iranian Student Information Agency It is notedthat when in 2001, Michael Chaplin, the son of the actor, arrived at the Tehran Film Festival, the journalists asked him about this letter. He replied that his father was too busy to write letters to children, but even this statement did not interfere with the popularity of the text.
Thus, the text attributed to Charlie Challina was actually written by the Iranian journalist Farajolla Saba for the heading with fictional letters in one of the local periodicals.
Photo on the cover: Charlie Chaplin in the film "Ramfa Lights" (screenshot Britannica.com)
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