Charlie Chaplin — "Quebec from the boat looked like the ramparts where Hamlet's ghost might have wa…"

Quebec from the boat looked like the ramparts where Hamlet's ghost might have walked. ... When we got off the streetcar at Times Square, it was somewhat of a letdown. Newspapers were blowing about the road and pavement, and Broadway looked seedy, like a slovenly woman just out of bed.
Charlie Chaplin — Charlie Chaplin Modern · Silent film legend

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About Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977)

English comic actor and silent-film auteur whose Tramp character defined early Hollywood and whose The Great Dictator (1940) satirized Hitler. Closely associated with Buster Keaton (silent-comedy peer of equal stature) and Harold Lloyd (third silent-comedy giant). For an intellectual contrast, see J. Edgar Hoover, FBI director (1924-1972) — Hoover pursued Chaplin for years on suspected communist sympathies, leading to the 1952 revocation of Chaplin's US re-entry permit and his Swiss exile — Hoover represented the McCarthy-era national-security state that was the institutional opposite of Chaplin's pro-immigrant Tramp humanism.

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From 'My Autobiography', describing his arrival in America

Date: 1964

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