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Helen Keller And Charlie Chaplin On The Set Of Sunnyside

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American blind and deaf author Hellen Keller teaching famous comic actor Charlie Chaplin the manual alphabet.  The two first met in 1918 during the shooting of Sunnyside where Keller would communicate with Chaplin by reading his lips with her hand, feeling the vibration of his voice in his throat.  Heller was also a political activist and lecturer, and her story was made famous through her autobiography, The Story of My Life, which was also adapted on film and stage.  Keller became deaf and blind at just 19 months old when she got an illness that could possibly be either scarlet fever or meningitis.  This did not deter her from pursuing a formal education and became the first deaf and blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree.

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