In his controversial masterpiece The Great Dictator, Charlie Chaplin offers both a cutting caricature of Adolf Hitler and a sly tweaking of his own comic persona. Chaplin, in his first pure talkie, ...

Hollywood studios did not want Charlie Chaplin to make The Great Dictator. When he first started writing the script in 1938, the U.S. had not yet entered World War II. In fact, it still enjoyed ...

At the end of the 1940 movie, “The Great Dictator,” the once silent film star Charlie Chaplin gave a speech that has transcended through cinematic time and is still considered relevant today. I have ...

This week marks the 85th anniversary of a movie masterpiece: Charlie Chaplin’s “The Great Dictator.” As NPR’s Neda Ulaby reports, it was risky for one of the world’s most popular performers to take a ...

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It's been 85 years since The Great Dictator first dazzled audiences in 1940. It was a big risk for one of the world's most popular performers to... How Charlie Chaplin used his uncanny resemblance to ...