Original photograph of Jean Cocteau, Geraldine Chaplin, and Charlie Chaplin at a party in Paris, 1958

Paris: Keystone, 1958. Vintage borderless photograph of director Jean Cocteau and actor Charlie Chaplin linked arm-in-arm with Chaplin's daughter Geraldine during a party at the Palais Garnier on December 20, 1958. With manuscript pencil annotations regarding cropping on the verso.

Chaplin and Cocteau first met as a coincidence, on a ship traveling from Japan to the US in 1936. They remained in contact over the ensuing years, until Cocteau's death in 1963.

7 x 5 inches. Very Good plus, lightly edgeworn and moderately toned overall.

[Book #151745]