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Auction History Result 8m282 GREAT DICTATOR/MODERN TIMES 1sh '80s Charlie Chaplin double-bill, cool classic images! Date Sold 11/17/2009 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Folded One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41") (Learn More) the undated (probably 1980s) double-bill release ("Chaplin's Two Greatest Films") of The Great Dictator, the 1940 Charles Chaplin World War II (WWII) military comedy ("Charlie Chaplin in his greatest role"; "The world will be laughing again..."; "2 1/2 hours of hilarity! Twelve thousand feet of laughter chosen from half a million feet of film!"; "The Chaplin millions love! The little tramp is back, converging into a dual role of a power-mad tyrant!"; "Plus a New Chaplin! A Chaplin for the new generation of fans, aiming his mirth at a target of timeliness!"; "The comedy masterpiece!"; nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award; note that this movie was made very early in World War II, before the full extent of the Nazi atrocities were even guessed at, but it seems somewhat bizarre to have a movie that makes fun of such events!) starring Charlie Chaplin (nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film; he played two parts, the Hitler-like Adenoid Hynkel, and "a Jewish barber", a twin for Hynkel), Paulette Goddard, Jack Oakie (in his nominated for Best Supporting Actor Academy Award role; as the Mussolini-like Benzini Napaloni), Henry Daniell, Reginald Gardiner, Billy Gilbert (as Field Marshal Herring), Maurice Moscovitch, Emma Dunn, Bernard Gorcey, and Paul Weigel AND Modern Times, the classic 1936 Charles Chaplin romantic automation assembly line factory worker comedy (about a man who struggles to live in modern industrial society with the help of a young homeless woman; "He stands alone as the greatest entertainer of modern times! No one on earth can make you laugh as heartily or touch your heart as deeply... the whole world laughs, cries and thrills to his priceless genius!") starring Charlie Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Henry Bergman, Tiny Sandford, and Chester Conklin. If anyone knows more about this, please e-mail us and we will post it here. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Condition: good to very good. There is a long vertical cut in the blank border at left. The poster is in otherwise nice condition! Learn More about condition grades 
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