The great silent movie comic was never quieter than when the time came to buy another round or the waiter appeared with the check. This despite the fact that he was reportedly earning $10,000 a week by 1916, the equivalent of $219,000 a week today. “Even after he had millions in the bank,” biographer Kenneth S. Lynn observed, “Chaplin never seemed to have any money on him, and when dining out with friends he always allowed someone else to pick up the tab.“Actor Marlon Brando called him “an egotistical tyrant and a penny-pincher,” while Orson Welles upped the ante to “cheapest man who ever lived.” According to Hollywood lore, Chaplin borrowed movie-set carpenters to build his home in Beverly Hills in order to save money, resulting in a structure so flimsy and prone to falling apart that it was soon nicknamed Breakaway House.
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