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    Charlie Chaplin was born in a very poor part of London. (1)---------- father was a comedian and his mother worked (2)-------- a dancer and a singer .Neither of them (3)------- successful so the family (4)-------- very little money.The first time he himself earned (5)--------- by dancing and singing,he was only five years old.He did many kinds of jobs,but what he loved best was working (6)-------the theatre.
   When he (7)---------about fifteen,he joined a traveling theatre company and went on trips to America.On one such tour,(8)------------was offered a part in a film,so he went to Hollywood,where he eventually became both a famous actor(9)------------ film,director.
   He died in Switzerland in 1977,at the (10)---------- of 88.There is now a statue of him in Leicester Square,London,the city of his birth and early up-bringing.