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Motion Picture Daily, New York, September 11, 1939.

The Great Dictator Set

with Charles Chaplin and Reginald Gardiner

& SEEIN‘ STARS

      By Feg Murray (...)

      Beautiful PAULETTE GODDARD plays a scrub girl,

(without any makeup), in CHARLIE CHAPLIN‘s

new comedy about dictators... (Chaplin himself will take the time

to give her coiffure his personal o.k. at 8:30 each morning.

(...) Cartoon, St. Louis Star and Times, St. Louis,

Missouri, Sept. 7, 1939

& Max Munn Autrey (photographer),

The Great Dictator Set with Paulette Goddard embroidering

& Of Local Origin

      Charles Chaplin reports in his latest communiqué

to the local United Artists office that his current

production will be known as „Production No. 6,“ pending selection

of a title. Before outbreak of the European

war the comedian had used the title, „The Dictators.“

(...) New York Times, Sept. 9, 1939

& Among new productions in work are „Rebecca“ at Selznick International.  (...) Charles Chaplin has begun

rehearsals of his tentatively designated „Production No. 6.“

(...) Motion Picture Daily, Sept. 11, 1939

& Chaplin Signs Oakie

      Charlie Chaplin fell on his face laughing over Jack

Oakie‘s test so he signed him, of course. The first

Chaplin scenes have been filmed and are in the can, and

that‘s history.

(...) Louella O. Parsons, Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia,

Pennsylvania, Sept. 14, 1939


„Signed to support the star, Paulette Goddard, and Henry Daniell“

Editorial content. Coast Flashes

      HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 10. – Start of rehearsals and

the signing of six supporting actors over the week-end marked

Charles Chaplin‘s activities on Production No. 6, also

referred to as The Great Dictator.

      Signed to support the star, Paulette Goddard,

and Henry Daniell were Emma Dunn, Maurice Moscovich,

Bernard Gorcey, Max Davidson, Nellie Nichols and

Esther Michelson.“

      The definitive title of the film is mentioned: 

      The Great Dictator.

     

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