Trivia / The Gold Rush

• The Danza: Georgia played by Georgia Hale.
• Deleted Scene: Chaplin states in his autobiography that he shot a sequence depicting a romance between the Prospector and an Inuit woman, but deleted those scenes from the final print.
• Inspiration for the Work: Charlie Chaplin claimed he got the idea for the film when he saw pictures of gigantic lines of prospectors heading up to the Alaskan gold fields. He was also inspired by the Donner Party.
• The Other Marty:
  • Lita Grey, whom Charlie Chaplin married in mid-1924, was originally cast as the leading lady, but was replaced by Georgia Hale when she became pregnant.
  • Originally a stagehand wore the chicken suit from Jim's hallucination. But when he couldn't mime Chaplin's walk and manners, Chaplin himself donned the suit.
• Romance on the Set: During production, Charlie Chaplin's short-lived marriage to Lita Grey collapsed and he embarked on an affair with leading lady Georgia Hale. When their finale's lingering kiss was filmed, it was (according to Hale in Unknown Chaplin [1983]) "not acting". By the time the movie was re-issued in 1942, Chaplin was long done with Hale, and he trimmed their final scene to exclude the long kiss.
• What Could Have Been: Carole Lombard tested for Georgia.
• Working Title: Lucky Strike and The Northern Story.

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