A Woman of Paris (1923, 90 mins.): This was Chaplin's first film to not star himself. Adolphe Menjou and Edna Purviance star in this elegant, sophisticated tale of a woman who leaves her sweetheart behind to marry a wealthy playboy. A King in New York (1957, 110 mins.): Charles Chaplin's last starring role casts him as an overthrown monarch who arrives penniless in New York. Persuaded to appear in some television commercials, he finds his celebrity rewarded to an absurd degree while a child he befriends is persecuted because of the political leanings of his parents. Chaplin, who had plenty of problems with the U.S. government, mocks the paranoia of 1950s America in this witty satire.

Charles Chaplin---USA---1923/1957---200 mins.

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