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

Paulette Goddard in „The Great Dictator.“

12A–One Col. Head (Mat .15; Cut .25)

(...) The Great Dictator Pressbook, 1940, United Artists collection

at the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research

& „Dictator“ Policy to Be Discussed Today (...)

      Charles Chaplin‘s „The Great Dictator“ was viewed today

by Murray Silverstone, head of world wide operations

for U. A., and Jack Schlaifer and Harry Gold, sales managers,

at the Chaplin studio.

      Silverstone, Schlaifer and Gold will meet with Chaplin

at Luncheon tomorrow at which time the sales policy,

release date and the possibility of advanced prices will be

discussed.

(...) Motion Picture Daily, Sept. 5, 1940

& New York Premiere Date Of „Dictator“ Not Yet Set (...)

      At a conference yesterday Murray Silverstone

and Charles Chaplin decided that premiere of „The Great

Dictator“ will be held in New York with Chaplin

attending. No date has been set for the opening.

      Sales policy has not been determined and release

date has not been fixed as yet. It is understood picture will

be shown in 13,000 feet with an intermission

(...) Film Daily, Sept. 6, 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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