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Hedda Hopper, Los Angeles Times, L. A., Cal., Oct. 28, 1939.

Charles Chaplin Film Corporation

      Daily Production Report (...)

      Director Charles Chaplin

      Cameraman Karl Struss & Roland Totheroh

      Working Title „The Great Dictator“

      Date October 30 1939 (...)

      Picture No. 6 (...)

      Cast Charles Chaplin

      Paulette Goddard

      Reginald Gardiner

      Maurice Moscovich

      Bernard Gorcey

      Paul Weigel (...)

      Extras & Bits

      1 Bit Man

      14 extras

      4 stand-ins (...)

      Stills Taken Today 0

      Number Brought Forward 160

      Total Stills To Date 160 (...)

      Scenes Taken Today (...)

      Scene Nos. Today

      C-2, C-9, N-9 (last ½), C-4, C-1-D (...)

      Graflex (...)

      Auto Used

      Sound Truck (...)

      No. Of Scenes Added 3 (...)

      Big Boom Worked (...)

      Film Used

      Footage

      Today 2,750

      Bal. Forwd. 151,120

      Total To Date 153,870

      Memo. Call 10 am shooting on Ghetto St. Retook truck shot

of Hannah with basket on her head. Retook her C U

with tomatoes being thrown at her. Pan up with her for her line.

Called lunch 1 to 2. After lunch retook scene in cellar

Stage 2 where Charlie spite up the coins. Shot 3:25 pm. Moved

to Stage 1 at 3:40. Retook Hannah‘s scene at Gate

after troopers helped her up (C-4). Retook boom shot C-1-D

with Gorcey, Moscovich & Hannah. Dismissed at 7 pm.

                                                         Kay Clement

      The Daily Production Report from Oct. 30, 1939

      has been published in Revue Historique Vaudoise 2007.

      Note: The Working Title – The Great Dictator –

      will be the definite title of the film.

& PRESS AGENT KEEPS CHARLIE OUT OF NEWS

      Al Reeves Has Hardest Job In Hollywood,

      It‘s No News

      HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 28. (AP) – In some respects, Alfred

Reeves has the toughest job in Hollywood.

      Alf is a press agent – who tries to keep his subject out

of the news.

      That‘s worse than being an automobile salesman with

instructions to advise motorists to buy a buggy.

Especially in Hollywood, where press agents, in search

of public attention, stumble over each other‘s

superlatives.

      Chaplin is rushing at snail‘s pace through another picture.

It‘s been gathering momentum, like a snowball, for two

years, the picture has. Right now it‘s rolling along so merrily

it should be completed by Christmas.

      „But Mr. Chaplin has given specific instructions that

there be no stories,“ says Reeves, sadly.

(...) AP, Ogden Standard-Examiner, Ogden, Utah,

Oct. 23, 1939

      AP, Associated Press.

        

„I‘ve just discovered the most wonderful gas. It will kill everybody“

Editorial content. „Hedda Hopper‘s HOLLYWOOD“ (...)

      „Sneezing Billy Gilbert has won a job playing right-hand

man to a comic dictator in Charlie Chaplin‘s forthcoming

opus. He read one line and was signed on the spot. The line

was done in his inimitable style: ,I‘ve just discovered

the most wonderful gas. It will kill everybody.‘“

        

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