- (1936) Composed the love theme for Modern Times (1936), as a totally instrumental, unnamed composition (although it was the music for a sequence of the film in which smiling was the emphasis. Much later the song became widely known as the named song that we came to know in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century as "Smile" after lyrics had been added by James John Turner Phillips (as John Turner) & Geoffrey Parsons in the 1950s, at John Turner's Peter Maurice Music Company in the late 1950s. Chaplin was known to be less than pleased that his little melody was re-written with lyrics.
- (Early 1970s) Not long before his own death in 1977, he wrote a screenplay entitled "The Freak" which he hoped would be made into a film for/by his youngest daughter, Victoria, who was best known for her appearance in Chaplin's A Countess from Hong Kong (1967), which starred Marlon Brando, Sophia Loren, and his second son Sydney Chaplin.
- (1967) Wrote the ballad "This is My Song" for A Countess from Hong Kong (1967). The song was an international hit for Petula Clark, even though he wrote it for his own film, and it was a major hit, Chaplin reportedly disliked it.
- (1915-16) He began work on a feature-length comedy entitled "Life," but after production was well underway, he was forced by The Essanay Film Manufacturing Company, the studio he was working for at that time, to cancel the production when demand for his comedy shorts became too great. Some footage shot for this never-finished production was later incorporated into Essanay's Chaplin film of Police (1916).
- (March 29, 1928) Appeared on an NBC radio special, "The Dodge Hour," with D.W. Griffith, Douglas Fairbanks, and John Barrymore. The Dodge Hour was a regular radio broadcast sponsored by Dodge Brothers (Dodge Automobiles, later part of Chrysler Corporation) to introduce its newest automobiles, it was broadcast from New York City, New York, USA; Detroit, Michigan, USA; and Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA. No recording is known to exist.
- (1965) His book, "My Autobiography," was published and released by Simon and Schuster, the same company now (as of 2020) owned by CBSViacom. This book was the basis of Chaplin (1992) starring Robert Downey Jr..
- (2020) TV commercial featuring the voice of Chaplin from The Great Dictator (1940), who is extolling on the future of the world, and the potential (in his eyes and mind) greatness of America, world speech, free speech, peace, open borders, tolerance, universal equality and acceptance, lack of prejudice, all in regards to America's great future and the world's future, for LaVazza Coffee (LavAzza Torino, italia, 1895), with the Twitter hashtag #TheNewHumanity and lavazza.us at the bottom of the screen (archive footage) (voiceover narration).
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