What made Granville Redmond become famous?

Answer 1

He was wonderful! Granville Redmond contracted scarlet fever at the age of two and a half, an illness which left him permanently deaf. He won a scholarship from California School of the Deaf and from the School of Design, which made it possible for him to study in Paris at the Academy Julian. While living in Los Angeles, he became friends with the famous Charlie Chaplin, who admired the natural expressiveness of a deaf person using American Sign Language. Chaplin asked Redmond to help him develop the techniques that Chaplin later used in his silent films. Chaplin, impressed with Redmond's skill gave Redmond a studio on the movie lot, collected his paintings, and sponsored him in silent acting roles - like the sculptor in "City Lights." Redmond was, without question, one of California's leading landscape painters.
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