Shortly after the publication of his memoirs, Chaplin began work on "A Countess from Hong Kong" (1967), a romantic comedy based on a script he had written for Paulette Goddard in the 1930s.
Knjiga s 500 stranmi, ki se osredotoča na njegova zgodnja leta in osebno življenje, je postala svetovna uspešnice, kljub kritikam o pomanjkanju podatkov o njegovi filmski karieri.