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A King in New York Overview:

A King in New York (1957) was a Comedy - Drama Film directed by Charlie Chaplin and produced by Charlie Chaplin and Jerome Epstein.

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Chaplin made this bitter story of a deposed European king who observes the American scene, bewildered, in England, and it was widely viewed at the time as an attack on the country that made him an international superstar. Chaplin had a knack for annoying American Babbits, going all the way back to his marriages to teenage actresses in the teens and '20s. But it was his pacifist movie Monsieur Verdoux (1947) and his early, outspoken calls to open a Russian front in WWII that aroused the attention of the House Un-American Activities Committee. Though he wired the committee that he had never belonged to any political party, he was informed while aboard a ship sailing for London that he would not be readmitted to the U.S. without testifying as to his moral fitness. He remained exiled in Switzerland until returning in 1972 to accept a special Academy Award for his contribution to movie history. A King in New York was finally released in the U.S. in 1973.

(Source: available at Amazon AMC Classic Movie Companion).

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A King in New York (1957)

By Beatrice on May 24, 2016 From Flickers in Time

A King in New York Directed by Charles Chaplin Written by Charles Chaplin 1957/UK Attica Film Company Repeat viewing/Netflix rental The country that made Charlie Chaplin a mega-star treated him pretty despicably in the end.  He got his revenge with this film.  In more ways than one. King Shahdo... Read full article

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A King in New York Facts
The first film that Charles Chaplin made in the UK after his exile from America, and his last leading role in a movie.
Shot for only 12 weeks, the shortest of all Chaplin films.
Dawn Addams replaced Kay Kendall.
Filmed at Shepperton Studios.
Before conceiving the idea for this film, Charles Chaplin had thought of two ideas that he decided against, one was the idea of reviving the tramp (because he realized that the appeal to the tramp was his flexibility), and reviving Verdoux from Monsieur Verdoux (his wife and assistant strongly decided against it.)
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