British comedian Charlie Chaplin dressed as a U.S. soldier for his movie "Shoulder Arms", 1918...WORLD WAR I
British comedian Charlie Chaplin dressed as a U.S. soldier for his movie "Shoulder Arms", 1918...WORLD WAR I Today 104 years ago, on October 20, 1918, the silent comedy movie "Shoulder Arms" was released by the iconic British comedian and actor Charlie Chaplin. In 1914, before the outbreak of the First World War, the British comedian and actor Charlie Chaplin had gained worldwide fame and admiration for his screenplay character "The Tramp", becoming a universally loved figure at the age of just 25. When the First World War broke out in August 1914, Chaplin was living in the US, still a neutral country at this point. Starting in 1915, as the war was dragging out and the British Army required an increasing number of men to keep up, people began to question why Charlie Chaplin wasn't fighting on the frontlines like every other young British man. The British media gradually attacked and reprimanded Chaplin for not enlisting into the British Army, which soo...