Charlie Chaplin, King Vidor, Mavoureen O'Brien and father actor Pat O'Brien.
Elizabeth Hill (King Vidor's wife), Charlie Chaplin, Paulette Goddard and King Vidor (Elizabeth Hill his wife).
At his home in Beverly Hills - Charlie Chaplin (lounge chair), King Vidor, Paulette Goddard and Vidor's wife Elizabeth Hill
King Vidor, wife Elizabeth Hill, Charlie Chaplin and Paulette Goddard, Ensenada Mexico 1937.
Director/Producer King Vidor ("The Big Parade", "Show People", "Stella Dallas", "The Champ") told an amusing story regarding Chaplin and his thing with giving haircuts in the book “The Search for Charlie Chaplin” by Kevin Brownlow (2010)
“He used to cut his own hair. I don't know why, it may go back to his early days when he didn't have enough money. But once he said after tennis – he used to call me Buddy - “Come on up, Buddy and I'll give you a haircut”. So I sat on a high stool and he gave me a haircut. A few weeks I was down in Los Angeles and went in the barber shop and the barber said, “Who cut your hair last time? And quietly I said “Charlie Chaplin ”The barber looked at me and said, “If I ask you a civil question. I expect a civil answer.”
JOHN GILBERT & RENÉE ADORÉE in
THE BIG PARADE — 1925, dir. King Vidor
[John Gilbert] wrote of Vidor: “In directing the picture [King Vidor] seems to convey some of his ideas through his silence better than they could be explained by most producers.
“Renée Adorée, for instance, never knew she was even going to chew gum when we sat down in one of the most famous scenes from the movie. I had the gum and as we looked at each other I pulled it out and gave her some... She didn’t beforehand think of swallowing it, but we discovered afterward that she was expected to by Mr. Vidor.”
After that chewing-gum scene, in which the American boy gives the French girl her first stick of gum and she eats it, Vidor leaped to his feet shouting, “I’ll be damned if I ever saw a scene as good as that!” — Dark Star by Leatrice Gilbert Fountain