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Gladys Hall, Motion Picture, New York, August 1940.

Gladys Hall

(...) Photo, Modern Screen, Feb. 1935, detail

& Silverstone to Coast On „Dictator“ Policy

      Maurice Silverstone, United Artists chief executive;

Harry Gold and L. J. Schlaifer, vice-presidents and

sales managers, and Arthur W. Kelly, foreign manager, plan

to leave for the Coast at the end of the week to set

the sales policy for „The Great Dictator“ in conferences with

Charles Chaplin.

      Lynn Farnol, advertising and publicity director, and

Monroe Greenthal, exploitation manager, will leave

for the Coast for further conferences with Chaplin about

midweek.

(...) Motion Picture Daily, Aug. 26, 1940

& Gold and Schlaifer To Coast on „Thief“ (...)

      Gold and Schlaifer may remain on the Coast for discussion

on sales policy for „The Great Dictator.“ Maurice

Silverstone, United Artists chief executive, will go to the

Coast in about a week to participate in the Chaplin

conferences.

(...) Motion Picture Daily, Aug. 30, 1940

„Right for what she was doing, where she was doing it“

Editorial content. „PAULETTE PICKS HERSELF TO PIECES

      When a woman faces her mirror she drops all pretenses

      and tells the truth about herself. So it is with Paulette

      Goddard in this interview. Face to face with herself she tells

      everything but won‘t affirm or deny that she‘s Mrs.

      Chaplin

      By GLADYS HALL

      PAULETTE was sitting in front of the pier-glass in her

dressing room on the Paramount lot, between scenes for The

Ghost Breakers.“ (...)

      „CLOTHES, Paulette admitted, are important to her, but

especially clothes for pictures. When she was planning

her wardrobe for Chaplin‘s The Dictator, in which she had

finished a couple of weeks before, she had, at first,

visions of some charming, little Austrian peasant numbers, simple

but effective. She ended by wearing a department

store basement garment, price $1.45.

      For when she got into the ghetto scenes the charming

little peasant frocks looked glaringly out of place,

out of key, too charming to be suitable. Paulette admits that

she just sat down and cried when she had to discard

them. Until she wore the basement gingham and realized

that she looked right in it, right for what she was doing,

where she was doing it.“ (...)

     The Great Dictator world premiere is in New York Oct. 15, 1940

      at the Capitol and Astor Theatres.

      Capitol Theatre, 1645 Broadway (at 51st Street), New York. 

      Astor Theatre, 1531 Broadway (at 45th Street), New York.

    

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