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The Great Dictator by Charlie Chaplin

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Name: Charles Spencer Chaplin
Birth Date: April 16, 1889
Death Date: December 25, 1977
Place of Birth: London, England
Place of Death: Switzerland
Nationality: English
Gender: Male
Occupations: actor, director, writer

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Biography of Charles Spencer Chaplin
1336 words, approx. 4.5 pages
The film actor, director, and writer Charles Spencer Chaplin (1889-1977) was one of the most original creators in the history of the cinema. His remarkable portrayal of "the tramp"--a sympathetic comic character in ill-fitting clothes and a trademark mus...
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Biography of Charles Spencer Chaplin
5130 words, approx. 17.1 pages
Master actor, director, producer, composer, and writer, Charles Spencer Chaplin was born into a theatrical family in East Lane, Walworth, London. His parents were music hall entertainers. Hannah Chaplin sang, danced, and was a mimic; Charles Chaplin, Sr....


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The Great Dictator Information
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The Great Dictator is a film directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin. First released in October, 1940, it bitterly satirizes Nazism and Adolf Hitler, culminating in an overt political plea to defy fascism. The film is exceptional in its period, in the...


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The Village Voice
The great dictator
03/19/2002: 550 words, approx. 2 pages
THE GREAT DICTATOR ESPN's dramatization of John Feinstein's A Season on the Brink made little sense dramatically or journalistically. In fact, the movie-filmed on the cheap in Winnipeg, Canada-is such a mess on so many levels that the usually serviceable and sometimes quite...
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The Daily Mail (London, England)
A Great Dictator.
07/04/2003: 1,017 words, approx. 3 pages
Byline: PETER LEWIS HERE is a deviant and controversial biography that seeks to revise recent history. It pulls Mussolini out of Hitler's shadow, where he long languished as the Fuhrer's semi-comic sidekick, and sets him before us as by far the more...
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The New York Observer
Tributes to a Film Genius: Brave and Ruthless Chaplin
7/30/2006: 1,100 words, approx. 4 pages
Last year in Paris, I went to a Chaplin exhibit at the Jeu de Paume. There were artifacts, stills, posters and very well done video projections of scenes from his films. One of the scenes being shown was the outtake from City Lights (1931), first...
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The New York Observer
Tributes to a Film Genius: Brave and Ruthless Chaplin
7/30/2006: 1,100 words, approx. 4 pages
Last year in Paris, I went to a Chaplin exhibit at the Jeu de Paume. There were artifacts, stills, posters and very well done video projections of scenes from his films. One of the scenes being shown was the outtake from City Lights (1931), first...
 


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