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23. Art. Books. Movies. Music. Chicago area.
oldhollywood:

Charlie Chaplin in The Great Dictator (1940, dir. Charlie Chaplin) (via)
“Had I known of the actual horrors of Nazi concentration camps, I could not have made The Great Dictator. I wanted to ridicule their mystic bilge about a pure-blooded race. The English office at United Artists were against my making an anti-Hitler film - until the war had started.”
-Chaplin, quoted in My Life in Pictures (1974)

oldhollywood:

Charlie Chaplin in The Great Dictator (1940, dir. Charlie Chaplin) (via)

“Had I known of the actual horrors of Nazi concentration camps, I could not have made The Great Dictator. I wanted to ridicule their mystic bilge about a pure-blooded race. The English office at United Artists were against my making an anti-Hitler film - until the war had started.”

-Chaplin, quoted in My Life in Pictures (1974)

Favorite films » Modern Times (1936), Charlie Chaplin
“Buck up—never say die. We’ll get along.”