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Motion Picture Daily, New York, September 5, 1934.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN PREPARES
TO START ON NEW PICTURE.
Production is due to start in the near future on Charlie
Chaplin‘s new motion picture, according to the
comedian, who spent ten days in seclusion at Lake
Arrowhead, going over the manuscript for his
picture. Chaplin is shown here at Lake Arrowhead.
(...) Photo, Kansas City Star, Kansas City,
Missouri, Sept. 7, 1934
& The Chaplin Schedule.
I could agree with him on that. Charlie‘s efforts of late
have been toward entertaining the public through
the medium of the publicity department and the tabloids
rather than through the screen. He‘s on an 8-year
schedule that runs something like this:
First Year – Make a picture.
Second Year – Announce that you will portray
Napoleon.
Third Year – Fight with Leta Gray over
the children.
Fourth Year – Announce that you will portray
„Hamlet.“
Fifth Year – Announce that you will going to marry
Paulette Goddard.
Sixth Year – Announce that you will portray
the Savior.
Seventh Year – Take the children to the movies with
an international publicity campaign.
Eighth Year – Begin preparations for
another picture.
(...) Hecht and MacArthur Are Raising a New Charlie
Chaplin, The Two Scenario Writers, Now Turned
Producers, Are Grooming Broadway‘s Jimmy Savo to Fill the
Comedy King‘s Shoes, By JOHN C. MOFFITT,
Copyright by NANA, Kansas City Star, Kansas City,
Missouri, Sept. 28, 1934
& Charles Spencer Chaplin has finally condescended
to go to work on a new picture, after all these
years. He will be producer, financier, director, supervisor,
star, author and part owner of the distributing
company that will market it.
The news was received with quite some surprise in the field, causing John Moffitt, for instance, to observe in his motion
picture column in the Kansas City Star that Mr. Chaplin is on an
eight-year schedule that runs something like this:
First Year – Make a picture.
Second Year – Announce that you will portray Napoleon.
Third Year – Fight with Lita Grey Chaplin over
the children.
Fourth Year – Announce that you will portray Hamlet.
Fifth Year – Announce that you are going to marry
Paulette Goddard.
Sixth Year – Announce that you will portray the Savior.
Seventh Year – Take the children to the movies
with an international publicity campaign.
Eight Year – Begin another picture.
Anyway, Mr. Chaplin pays his own way.
(...) Motion Picture Herald, New York, October 27, 1934
& Camera Work Is Started
On Chaplin‘s „Number 5“
Actual camera work started yesterday on Charlie Chaplin‘s
new production, still tentatively called „Picture No. 5.“
After two years of preparatory activity on the script and the
settings, the first „shot“ was made with Chaplin acting
in the triple capacity of star, director and author.
„Picture No. 5“ sets a precedent in Chaplin productions
in that it will be completed within three months. The
comedian‘s last picture, „City Lights,“ took more than a year
to make. But this time Charlie has completely worked
out every detail of production before the first sequence was
photographed.
Paulette Goddard plays the leading feminine role
opposite Chaplin.
(...) Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Brooklyn, New York,
Oct. 13, 1934
& Paulette Goddard Proves
Paragon of Modesty
HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 12 – Another Garbo or Hepburn
in the matter of interviews appears in Hollywood –
Paulette Goddard! Charlie Chaplin‘s new leading lady, also
reputed fiancee, assumes a Sphinx-like attitude
toward the press for a different reason, however. She refuses
to talk to reporters, not because she thinks they
are too nosey about her private affairs, but because she
sincerely believes she isn‘t worth while yet.
Until she actually has achieved something on the screen,
she doesn‘t think her opinions are of the slightest
moment! Which ought to give Hollywood a jolt. Says she
in her first and only formal statement:
„An enormous opportunity has been given me as leading
lady for Charlie Chaplin. To justify it, I‘ve been
studiously applying myself for the past two years – voice
culture, dancing, a course of English literature and
writing at the University of California.
„After all, the most important thing in Hollywood‘s scheme
of things seems to be performance. When the picture
has been released, then I‘ll have something to say. Or, rather,
I hope my performance will say it for me.“
(...) Boston Globe, Boston, Massachusetts, Nov. 13, 1934
& Chaplin, he (Eddie Cantor) said, replying to another
question, makes pictures only once every two
or three years so he will not have to take Uncle Sam
in as a silent partner on the income.
(...) Motion Picture Daily, Oct. 19, 1934
& Rich Comedians
(...) Motion Picture Herald, Sept. 15, 1934
„The wealthiest citizen of Hollywood“
Editorial content. „Chaplin Still Richest
Los Angeles, Sept. 4 – Charlie Chaplin still is the wealthiest
citizen of Hollywood, according to annual records
of the county tax collector made public today. The valuation
of property held by the comedian is given
as $3,279,230. The richest landowner is Will Rogers,
whose properties are assessed at $322,920.“
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