Word: chaplins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Charlie Chaplin's autobiography, ego so often intrudes in The Name Above the Title that history is sometimes obliterated. Still, no other book has given quite so vivid a picture of the way Hollywood farms out its once infallible film makers. Capra, now 74, has not made a movie in over a decade. The kind of happy ending he perfected on screen, the whimsical triumph at the final fadeout, eludes him in life...
DAUGHTER OF CHARLES CHAPLIN SAYS...
...FATHER is JEWISH." On set at the Red Sea port of Eilat, where she has just completed a film called Carlos, Movie Star Geraldine Chaplin fudged it a bit. "My father never admitted it, but then he never denied it," she said. "I don't think he really knows what...
Greta Garbo as Pope Innocent III? Italian Movie Director Franco Zeffirelli considered her, thought Charlie Chaplin might also be suitable, ended up by picking Laurence Olivier, who was unavailable. "Olivier couldn't do it, so they asked me," said his modest replacement, Actor Alec Guinness, who was in Italy filming a confrontation scene between Pope Innocent and St. Francis of Assisi for Brother Sun, Sister Moon, Zeffirelli's cinematic treatment of the saint's life. "Religion is still an important factor for the young," mused Sir Alec, a Catholic himself. "Only difference is that in the past...
...POINTING FRANTICALLY AT THE CLOCK): That about wraps it up. I want to thank Dick Cavett for being our guest this evening . . . (SUDDENLY THE STAGE MANAGER PRODUCES A HASTILY MADE CUE CARD; THERE'S NO RECOURSE EXCEPT TO READ IT.)Tomorrow my guests will be Greta Howard Hughes, Charlie Chaplin ?and Bozo, the Wonder Chimp! [Applause and laughter.] Say good night, Dick...