Patrick O’Connor
Seriously Funny
In 1958 the Public Library in Hicksville, Long Island planned a retrospective of four early Charlie Chaplin short silent films (The Cure, The Fireman, The Pawnshop and The Floorwalker). A pressure group campaigned successfully to have the films banned from being shown, stating that Chaplin ‘was not worthy of being honored’. This occurred some five and a half years after the then US Attorney-General, James P McGranery, had opposed Chaplin’s re-entry into the United States, thereby effectively banishing him from the country in which he had lived and worked since 1910, and where he had created the most famous moving-picture personality of all time.
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