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Victor M. Shapiro, Motion Picture Herald, N. Y., May 12, 1934.
Victor M. Shapiro
(...) Photo, Exhibitors Herald, Sept. 30, 1922
& Paulette Goddard, Charles Chaplin,
undated, Twitter
& Modern Times Set, Los Angeles 1935,
Roy Export
& ROMANCE WITH NEXT MOVIE
FOR CHAS. CHAPLIN
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Admits His Past Year Not All Devoted
To Paulette Goddard
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Whom May Be His Wife
By Ted Smits,
International News Service Staff Correspondent
HOLLYWOOD, May 8 – (I. N. S.) – Romance still beckons
for Charlie Chaplin.
The start of his long projected and equally long delayed
new picture remains still in the hazy future.
Everything has been in readiness at his studio for months.
But the master of pantomime has been too busy
squiring Paulette Goddard, the tall beauty he has chosen for
his next leading lady, to go before the camera.
The two are seen frequently together, and, chaperoned
by friends, have gone on long cruises up and down
the California Coast in Chaplin‘s yacht.
Rumors that they have, in fact, been married
aboard the boat abound in Hollywood but they have been
stoutly denied.
According to one intimate friend, if the marriage does
occur it will be after Chaplin has finished his picture.
Chaplin has let it be known that not all his time during the
past year has been spent paying court to Paulette.
On the contrary, the great comedian has done something he has
never done before – he has prepared a complete script
for his next picture, which, like his last few efforts, will be ,silent‘
in that there will be no talking. There will be ,sound
effects,‘ however, and music much of which Chaplin himself
wrote or suggested.
,All my ,gags‘ are ready now, I can make my picture in six
weeks,‘ Chaplin told a friend.
Meanwhile at the Chaplin studio, cozy, spotless place
in the English style of architecture where only Chaplin
movies are made, plans have been perfected to such an extent
that, according to Alfred Reeves, the general manager,
,Mr. Chaplin could walk in at 8 o‘clock unannounced any morning,
and we could start work at nine.‘
The big, outdoors stage has been renovated, cameras and
equipment have been overhauled. Chaplin‘s private
studio where he watches his own work each day has been
completely remade – and what is more important,
Paulette Goddard‘s dressing room has been completed.
In soft colors, with expensive, subdued hangings
and carpets, this boudoir would do credit to any of the greatest
movie stars. There is a connected telephone – which
never has been used – and a new radio which never has been
turned on.
(...) Evening Report, Lebanon, Pa., May 8, 1934
„At a slot-machine game of skill“
Editorial content. „The Hollywood Scene
by Victor M. Shapiro“ (...)
„Meeting Charlie Chaplin in an out-of-the-way
drug store where the comedian was chancing his luck
at a slot-machine game of skill, the writer,
between nickel shots, asked him about his forthcoming
production.
Charlie was more inclined to discuss the prize
Zeppo Marx won for a nickel the night before, but unfolded
the fact that his much awaited next picture will have
a down-to-earth theme with rural flavor.
Paulette Goddard, former Follies girl, will play
opposite him.
Chaplin‘s production will be silent with sound and musical
effects only. Charlie will stick to pantomime.
For the first time in his production career, he will work from
a completed script, so he said, and at the moment is
completing the scenario.
Additional sound stages have been built at his studio
for the production.
He said the film will be released the first of the year.
Knowing the charming vagaries of the comedian, it may
be confidently said that all of his best intentions, as
outlined, may be diverted at less than a moment‘s notice,
Once before, after it had been in the mental stage
for over a year, Charlie promised the delivery of his film to his
distributors in three months. The film was delivered
by Chaplin two years later.“
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