Charles Chaplin - City Lights Soundtrack: The Flower Girl (La Violetera) - 1931

Charles Spencer Chaplin was born on 16th April 1889 in Walworth, London, and lived a Dickensian childhood, shared with his brother, Sydney, that included extreme poverty, workhouses and seeing his mother’s mental decline put her into an institution. Both his parents, though seperated when he was very young, were music hall artists, his father quite famously so. But it was his mother Charlie idolised and was inspired by during his visits backstage while she performed, to take up such a career for himself. He