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"How Comic Genius Charlie Chaplin Survived His Hungry Childhood"
Good story describing a recently rediscovered interview with a woman whose aunt helped raise the Chaplin boys, Charlie and Sydney, after their mother entered an insane asylum.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/feb/06/charlie-chaplin-comic-genius-survived-ragged-london-childhood