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- Title
Charles Chaplin's A King in New York Revisited.
- Authors
Brown, Wallace
- Abstract
The article focuses on the cancellation of actor Charles Chaplin's re-entry visa by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service. Chaplin, disdaining such an indignity, soon settled his family in Switzerland, where he lived in exile until his death. The cancellation of Chaplin's visa was not entirely unexpected. His enormous popularity had always been accompanied by the doubts of some Americans, mainly right-wingers and moralists. The political attacks had several roots. He was resented for his lack of United States citizenship. He was seen as a pro-communist for supporting the second front, as a definite communist for opposing the deportation in 1948 of his Marxist friend, German composer Hanns Eisler. Chaplin's reputation continued to decline in the United States partly because in 1954 he accepted a Soviet peace prize. Then to cap it all in the Summer of 1956 at Shepperton Studios near London, Chaplin, now in his early sixties, wrote, directed, composed the music and, naturally, starred in "A King in New York," his first film made outside the United States.
- Subjects
CHAPLIN, Charlie, 1889-1977; ACTORS; ENTERTAINERS; KING in New York, A (Film); MOTION pictures; PERFORMING arts
- Publication
Film & History (03603695), 1992, Vol 22, Issue 3, p88
- ISSN
0360-3695
- Publication type
Article