Word: bercovici
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...Life," said Charles Chaplin, on his 58th birthday, "begins at 50. ... The middle years are the mellow ones [without] agonies and tensions." Next day, a Manhattan court recorded a $6,450,000 damage suit against him. After seven years of brooding about the matter, Author Konrad Bercovici claimed that Charlie had "pirated" a Bercovici yarn as the basis of The Great Dictator...