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L. O. Parsons, Sacramento Bee, Sacramento, Cal. Oct. 11, 1938.

Charlie Chaplin

(...) Photo, Boston Globe, Boston, Massachusetts, Nov. 1, 1938

& If Charlie Chaplin does get around to making that

political satire about the Jew who resembles and is mistaken

for a certain dictator, he will not be able to release it.

Political satires are taboo, by order of the Hays office. I am

inclined to believe that Charlie‘s talk is mere

table-chatter. Besides, by the time he actually makes his

next picture, who knows what condition the world

will be in? His subject might be as old-fashioned as the

drinking debutante. 

(...) GADABOUT In Hollywood By SHEILA GRAHAM, Boston

Globe, Boston, Massachusetts, Nov. 1, 1938

& The News Reel Theater on B‘way is described as the cradle

of movie booing, dating from the Roosevelt-Landon

campaign, and nourished by the rantings of Il Doochay and

Adolf Chaplin.

(...) Walter Winchell ...on BROADWAY (Copyright, 1938, Daily Mirror), Cincinnati Enquirer, Cincinnati, Ohio, Sept. 20, 1938

& CHARLIE CHAPLIN told a group at the Beverly Hills Brown

Derby that he is writing a story in which he will play

a lone Jew in a certain concentration camp. He tries very hard

to be exceptionally nice to everyone, and when mending

a uniform for a Nazi officer, Chaplin has to put it on. He walks

out of the camp in the uniform, everyone salutes him

and part of the army follows him. . . .

(...) Sidney Skolsky presents... The Gossipel Truth,

Hollywood Citizen News, Hollywood, Cal., Oct. 3, 1938

& Hitler Caricature Is Dropped by Chaplin

      FILM INSTEAD IS EXPECTED TO PORTRAY

      FAKE DICTATOR

      By Louella O. Parsons

      Motion Picture Editor International News Service.

      Copyright, 1938, By International News Service.

      HollywooD, Nov. 30. – Burlesquing Adolf Hitler

is not as simple as it would seem, with Germany

standing ready with reprisals against the Jews on the slightest

provocation. Charlie Chaplin wasn‘t worried when

the German consul tactfully suggested that it might not

be a good idea to caricature the mustached

dictator in his next comedy. But now that some of the

prominent Jews in this country have expressed

the fear that their poor oppressed people now living

in Germany might suffer – well, it‘s a different

matter.

      Charlie has worked very hard and has his story all ready

to shoot, so it‘s tough on him. Those who have been

privileged to hear him relate some of the laugh sequences

say it‘s his funniest comedy to date, but he will

probably keep the same idea with a fake dictator instead

of Hitler.

(...) San Francisco Examiner, San Francisco, Cal., Dec 1,1938

& Selznick Denies Goddard Chosen

      No Selection Yet for „Scarlett“ Role

      HOLLYWOOD, Cal., Dec. 3 (AP) – No actress has been

selected yet to play the role of Scarlett O‘Hara in the

film version of „Gone With the Wind,“ David O. Selznick,

president of Selznick International Pictures, said

Saturday with an air of fatigue. (...)

      Commenting on a New York report that Paulette Goddard

had been chosen, Selznick said: (...)

      „Paulette Goddard has not been set for the role. She is one

of several remaining candidates under consideration.“     

(...) Albuquerque Journal, Albuquerque, New Mexico, Dec. 4, 1938.

      AP, Associated Press.


„Paulette Goddard called a doctor“

Editorial content. „By Louella O. Parsons

      (Copyright, 1938, By International News Service)“ (...)

      „A line or two: David Selznick will be careful in the

future how he swings a tennis racket. Sunday at the Charlie

Chaplins‘ he hit his glasses while playing mixed

doubles and broke them into bits. Paulette Goddard called

a doctor, fearing the glass had penetrated his eyes,

but it was found he had only a few scratches . . .“

      It‘s Vivien Leigh, not Paulette Goddard, who will be

      Scarlett O‘Hara in Gone With the Wind.


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