Thursday May 17, 2012

British spies stumped by Charlie Chaplin mystery

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    mitoguitarman

    Good old USA paranoia hounding yet another artist out of the country. I often visited his statue in Vevey on the shores of Lac Leman.

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    edojin

    No matter if he was born a Jew or a Gypsy or a Brit or whatever, he was one heck of a movie man. I still enjoy watching his early movies from the silent era. Later when he became too political, his films became extremely boring.

    His love for young women was always fascinating, too ...

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    JapanGal

    The idea he was Jewish appears to have been an assumption by some fans that came to be widely believed.

    I am happy he was.

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    LoveNot

    In 1952, as fears of Soviet infiltration raged in the U.S., American authorities asked MI5 to investigate Chaplin’s political allegiances and personal background

    US insanity at its best. The witch hunting even grows scarier by the day in modern days.

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