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Louella O. Parsons, Tampa Bay Times, T. B., Fla., May 16, 1929.
City Lights Scene
& Terra Filme 1938-39, Cover Verleihkatalog, Berlin,
1938, Fritz Hirzel Archiv, detail
& Chaplin Rejects Terra As German Distrib
Los Angeles, May 7.
When advised that Terra Films had been selected as the
German release medium for his latest picture, „City
Lights,“ Charlie Chaplin is said to have stated through his
personal representative that he would refuse
to sanction the agreement.
Terra distributes most of the U. A. releases in Germany.
Chaplin is reported to hold objectionable Terra‘s
terms per picture of 50 per cent up to 100,000 marks, with
a slight sliding scale above that figure. Also that
release through Terra will place all U. A. producers in one
basket in Germany.
It was said that unless satisfactory terms were
made by Terra, „City Lights“ will be withdrawn
and distributed in Germany either by Chaplin‘s own organization
or possibly Universal.
„The Circus“ and other Chaplin-U. A. pictures will
remain under Terra‘s guidance in Germany through an existing
agreement between the Berlin company and U. A.
(...) Variety, May 8, 1929
& Industry Loses One of its Noted Attorneys
in Nathan Burkan (...)
In 1916 Charlie Chaplin engaged Mr. Burkan
to draw up his $670,000 employment contract with John R.
Freuler of Mutual Film Corporation. Chaplin paid
him $1,000 for a day‘s work. When the contract was formally
signed, Burkan convinced Mr. Freuler that he should
have a memento of the occasion, and sold him his $6 fountain
pen, with which the contract was signed, for $35.
Mr. Burkan remained Chaplin‘s friend and advisor until his death.
(...) Photo, Motion Picture Herald, June 13, 1936
& Nathan Burkan
(...) Photo, Members of the Board of Directors of the Cinema Corporation of America, Motion Picture News, Sept. 4, 1926
& Chaplin Decrees Against
Dialog on His Reissues
Los Angeles, May 7.
Charles Chaplin has instructed his attorney to take
action to prevent any one tagging dialog on him in any of the older Chaplin issues now on market.
Word was received of intention of an eastern company
to synchronize subjects on disc and sell on State
right market.
(...) Variety, New York, May 8, 1929
& WHAT‘S a million or two among screen stars in these
days when the janitor and the laundress have
joined the two-car garage-class? Marion Davies is reported
at the head of the picture actresses with five
millions to her credit. Just a bit below her are Mary Pickford,
Douglas Fairbanks and Charlie Chaplin.
(...) Motion Picture, June 1919
„Offering to finance him for any amount“
Editorial content. „Chaplin Balks At Any
Merger Deal In Films
Charlie Wants to Stay Out but United Artists
Expected to Join Warners
By LOUELLA O. PARSONS (...)
NEW YORK, May 15. – Charlie Chaplin will have plenty
of time to make up his mind on the United Artists-
Warner Brothers‘ deal. The details of the amalgamation
cannot be perfected until Harry Warner returns from
Europe the first week in May. Perhaps by that time, Charlie
will have a change of heart and will join with the other
members of the United Artists, including Douglas Fairbanks,
Mary Pickford, Samuel Goldwyn, Gloria Swanson
and others. But even if Charlie decides to go it alone the deal
is going through – that much was confirmed by a man
on the inside.“ (...)
„An interesting sequel to the Chaplin argument is the word
that several moneyed men in New York wired Mr. Chaplin
offering to finance him for any amount he wanted if he cared
to make independent pictures.“ (...)
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