Two of Charlie's children, Annette and Christopher, pictured in Febuary 1985 with the Madame Tussaud's waxwork model of their father.
The singer and comedian Tommy Steele who himself was born only a short distance away from Charlie's birthplace, with his unique statue of the great man.
 

 

 

 

In London, where he was born, a six-foot high bronze statue of the little tramp made by the leading sculptor, John Doubleday, stands in the heart of the city's cinemaland, Leicester Square. It was erected to mark the 92nd anniversary of his birth

The statue was first proposed by the Greater London Council member Illtydd Harrington shortly after the star's death in 1977.

John Doubly, a life-long admirer of Chaplin, who lives and works in Essex, based the statue Chaplin at the peak of his popularity. He is depicted leaning on his cane, a rose pressed to his heart an according to John, his eyes clouded with wistfulness for 'one of the girls who got away'.

John has explained that while he was working out the exact measurements for the statue he realized that Chaplin had retained all his life the undeveloped thorax of an underfed child.

On January 13, a statue of Chaplin turned up quite unannounced in Leicester Square.

 
John Doubleday's statue of Charlie which stands in Leicester Square, London - appropriately facing the Swiss Centre! An identical version also stands in Corsier sur Vevey, Switzerland, where Charlie lived during the closing years of his life.
The 'Chaplin Craze' brought with it the inevitable impersonators, toys, dolls, statuettes, costumes, cut-outs and even animated cartoons. Although the frenxy for Chaplin goods had abated some what by the 1920s , there were still novelties to be had, something which remains true even today.