Tag archives: Kevin Jenkins
Ballet Cherishes Charlie Chaplin from all Angles
Charlie Chaplin has been inextricably linked to Montecito ever since he founded and developed the Montecito Inn almost a century ago to serve as a more accessible yet upscale getaway for Hollywood stars, of which he was one of the biggest. Considered perhaps the greatest comic artist of the silver screen and one of the […]
Little Tramp a Big Deal for Ballet
The choreographers behind State Street Ballet’s season-opening world premiere, Chaplin, had no idea that Charlie Chaplin had a major Montecito and Santa Barbara connection, the silent-film icon having had a hand in the building of the Montecito Inn in 1928, and marrying Oona O’Neill here in 1943. All they knew was that not only did […]
