10 Famous People You'll Be Shocked To Learn Were Total Perverts

4. Charlie Chaplin - Stripping Women In Auditions

Surely the most beloved, cheeky face of the silent movie era doesn't belong here, I mean, it's hard to imagine Charlie Chaplin doing anything more than settling into bed with a night gown, cap and candle at the end of the day. Not quite, as it turns out that Chaplin had a particularly specific method of casting the female actresses for his films. Picture if you will, a young actress nervously making her way onto the middle of the stage, her whole life has built up to this moment, she's about to audition for a part in the next big Charlie Chaplin picture, and the man himself is there to see her in person. Sounds like the stuff dreams are made of, until Chaplin then asks the woman to strip naked and begins to throw cream pies at her. And no, this isn't in fact the rejected plot for any of Chaplin or Laurel & Hardy's movies, this actually happened, and apparently it happened quite a bit. Chaplin's theory was that if a woman could not take a pie to the face without crying out, she was not worthy to be in a mime production. Why did she have to be naked in the first place? Oh, simple; to allow Chaplin to fondle her in a comical mime fashion, of course. If ever you actually needed a reason to distrust mimes, it's the 100 year old antics of an old pervert that tips it over for you.