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FilmWeek Feature: Larry Mantle’s Interview With Scott Eyman On His New Book ‘Charlie Chaplin Vs. America’
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FilmWeek Feature: Larry Mantle’s Interview With Scott Eyman On His New Book ‘Charlie Chaplin Vs. America’

Larry Mantle interviews Scott Eyman on his new book ‘Charlie Chaplin Vs. America: When Art, Sex, And Politics Collided’.

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In the aftermath of World War Two, Charlie Chaplin was criticized for being politically liberal and internationalist in outlook. Chaplin also had other problems: his numerous affairs with young women. His sexuality became a convenient way for those who opposed his politics to condemn him – eventually being refused entry into the US while on a trip abroad. Having settled in Switzerland, he made his last two films in London. Bestselling Hollywood biographer and film historian Scott Eyman tells the story of Charlie Chaplin’s fall from grace in his new book “Charlie Chaplin Vs. America: When Art, Sex, And Politics Collided.”

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