Charlie Chaplin Studios, Historic film studio complex in Hollywood, Los Angeles
Charlie Chaplin Studios is a historic film studio and building complex in Hollywood, Los Angeles, situated on North La Brea Avenue near Sunset Boulevard. The lot contains several sound stages and cottage-style office buildings spread across a compact site of roughly 2 acres (about 0.8 hectares).
Charlie Chaplin had the studio built in 1917 and used it to produce some of his most famous films, with the last one shot there in 1952. After he left, the property passed through several owners and served as a television and music recording facility before being named a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument in 1969.
The lot is built to look like an English village, with cottage-style buildings and tree-lined paths that visitors can still see today. Since 2000, the Jim Henson Company has occupied the site, and a large Kermit the Frog statue stands at the gate as a recognizable landmark.
The site is an active production facility and is not open to the public for general visits. The entrance on North La Brea Avenue is visible from the street, where the Kermit the Frog sign can be spotted from outside.
When one of the sound stages was built, Chaplin pressed his footprints and signature into the wet concrete just outside it. Those original impressions were later moved to Red Skelton's home in Palm Springs.
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