Charlie Chaplin — "I am like a man who is ever haunted by a spirit, the spirit of poverty, the spir…"
I am like a man who is ever haunted by a spirit, the spirit of poverty, the spirit of privation.
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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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Interview, discussing the inspiration for his 'Tramp' character.
Date: Approx. 1920s
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