1906-1907 Original Casey's Court Poster 8 x 7 Ft Featuring Charlie Chaplin

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1906-1907 Original Casey's Court Poster 8 x 7 Ft Featuring Charlie Chaplin

1906-1907 Original Casey's Court Poster 8 x 7 Ft Featuring Charlie Chaplin: (In four sections) Will Murray’s “Casey’s Court” (1906) the new production from Will Murray at the Broadway Empire on 18th January 1906 and featuring none other than Charles “Charlie” Chaplin! However, the most famous cast members of ‘Casey’s Court’ were undoubtedly the two young lads who went by the names of Arthur Stanley Jefferson and Charles Chaplin. Chaplin was recruited by Will Murray in 1906, and his sketch in the show featured him playing a fake medicine seller. However, he chose to leave Casey’s Court after just a year, when he was offered a job as a clown in the slapstick comedy company ‘Fred Karno’s Fun Factory’. It was with Karno that he was to cross the Atlantic and find later fame in the movies. In 1910, Arthur Stanley Jefferson would also follow Chaplin to the Karno Fun Factory, finding fame in the USA, but only after a later change of stage name to Stan Laurel!

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