Word: bluebeardish
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Charles Spencer Chaplin gave the public a preview peek at himself in what looked like the nattiest role of his career (see cut). His long-planned comedy about a Bluebeardish M. Verdoux who marries and murders for money (leading lady: Martha Raye) would finally be out in March, and Producer-Actor Chaplin was moved to a program note: "Von Clausewitz said that war is the logical extension of diplomacy; M. Verdoux feels that murder is the logical extension of business." Bessie Love, sweet-faced young thing of the silents, complained that her ex-husband, Producer William B. Hawks, had fallen...
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