On Chaplin's Other Half Brother
Today is the birthday of Wheeler Dryden (George Dryden Wheeler, Jr, 1892-1957). It was tempting to include him in both my Stars of Vaudeville and Stars of Slapstick series, but Dryden was admittedly minor in both fields, and I decided to go with the best headline! Dryden was Charlie Chaplin’s half-brother, born to their mother […]