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Monsieur Verdoux. Charlie Chaplin's satire about an unemployed family man who becomes a professional murderer (TIME...
...Charles Chaplin's "personality" offended the Independent Theater Owners of Ohio. The group, owners of 325 movie houses, urged all other U.S. theater owners to boycott Chaplin's Monsieur Verdoux, and not waste "valuable screen time ... to his financial benefit...
Monsieur Verdoux. Charlie Chaplin's satire about an unemployed family man who becomes a professional murderer (TIME...
Konrad Bercovici, who had charged Charles Chaplin with copping the idea for The Great Dictator from him, didn't get the $6,450,000 he sued for, but he did all right. After nine days in court (during which Bercovici displayed a Bercovici script about dictators and Chaplin said he had never seen it), the novelist and the comic settled things by agreeing that 1) The Great Dictator was Chaplin's idea, and Chaplin had all rights to it; 2) Chaplin could have the movie rights to two Bercovici stories; and 3) Bercovici could have...
Monsieur Verdoux. Charlie Chaplin's satire about an unemployed family man who becomes a professional murderer (TIME...