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Jimmie Fidler, Los Angeles Times, L. A., Cal., April 3, 1940.
Two The Great Dictator Stills. Charles Chaplin as Adenoid
Hynkel – The bottom photo is great – look at that adorable little
girl and how she is looking at him. Chaplin for The Ages
& Reading the Current Magazines.
CHAPLIN ISN‘T LIKE HAMLET
AND HE HAS NO COCKNEY ACCENT
Kyle Crichton Clears Up a Few Points About the Comedian (...)
A REVAMPING of Charlie Chaplin for the purpose
of skimming off the accumulation of „solemn“ bunk, with which –
for some reason – he has been spattered in the last
few years is presented by Kyle Crichton in the current Collier‘s.
The vague potion that Chaplin is a sort of Petruccio
is what Mr. Crichton dispels by revisiting the comedian, who
is all steamed up over his new picture – the one about
dictators – which isn‘t a sermon in disguise, but just funny. (...)
The theme of the new picture concerns a little
Jew who is mistaken for a dictator and is forced to carry
on in that capacity. „As a matter of fact,“ Chaplin
said, „I‘m not Jewish. Haven‘t a drop of Jewish blood. I‘ve never
protested when they said I was Jewish because I‘d be
proud of it if I were. I‘m an individualist and an internationalist.
I like good people and hate bad people, and I don‘t
care what their race is or where they came from. There are
several nationalities mixed up in me, but I‘m proudest
of the fact that I‘m part gypsy. My grandmother was a gypsy and
I like to think this acting I can do comes, in part, from her:“
(...) Kansas City Times, Kansas City, Missouri, March 14, 1940.
Drawing by Porter.
& Charles Chaplin is quits with Kyle Crichton over
Kyle‘s piece in Collier‘s. Thinks his confidence was violated.
(...) Walter Winchell on Broadway, Tennessean,
Nashville, Tennessee, March 22, 1940.
Collier‘s Magazine, March 16, 1940, page 20:
Kyle Crichton, Ride ‘Em, Charlie! The new Charlie Chaplin
picture, no dictator‘s delight.
& Son‘s Giggle Costs
Chaplin Extra $10,000
By Sheilah Graham.
Globe-Democrat and North American Newspapers Alliance
Staff Writer.
HOLLYWOOD, CAL., March 7. – They were ready for the
final shot on Charlie Chaplin‘s current picture. Among
the group of visitors were Chaplin‘s two sons. For the ,take‘
Charlie was concealed in the biggest gun ever seen,
and when the order came to ,Fire,‘ the shell had to tickle
Charlie in an embarrassing part of his anatomy.
It took hours to get the scene set for the camera. Finally,
everything was ready. It was so quiet on the set you
could hear your neighbor breathing. The camera turned. The
sequence was almost finished when suddenly there
was a loud giggle from one of the onlookers. A furious Chaplin
poked his head out the cannon and demanded,
,Who did that?‘ It was his son, Sidney. It was the funniest
thing in the world to see Charlie‘s expression –
pride that his son found the scene amusing, mingled with
the fact the giggle would cost him another $1000
to retake the scene.
(...) St. Louis Globe-Democrat, St. Louis, Missouri,
March 8, 1940
Sheilah Graham is Globe-Democrat and North American
Newspapers Alliance Staff Writer.
„Everybody back tomorrow and we‘ll try it again“
Editorial content. „JIMMIE FIDLER IN HOLLYWOOD (...)“
„From the set where Charlie Chaplin is putting
on full steam ahead to complete The Dictator before war
conditions change comes this anecdote:
Everything was set up for one of the picture‘s highlights,
a scene in which Chaplin, as Hitler, fires the Big Bertha
gun. All day the more than 200 extras and cast members had
been rehearsing the intricate ,business.‘
Finally, near 5 o‘clock, everything was ready and the
cameras started grinding. It was a perfect ,take,‘
until, suddenly, one of the Chaplin boys, on the set to watch
daddy, burst into a loud laugh.
Chaplin whirled, glared, recognized the offender, then
announced, wearily, ,That will be all for today. Everybody back tomorrow and we‘ll try it again.‘“
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