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Auction History Result 5b0347 GREAT DICTATOR WC 1940 Charlie Chaplin directs & stars, Goddard, wacky WWII comedy, rare! Date Sold 9/26/2023 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Unfolded Movie Window Card (WC; measures 14" x 22" [36 x 56 cm]) (Learn More) The Great Dictator, the 1940 Charles Chaplin World War II (WWII) anti-war black 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; the movie was Chaplin's first actual talking movie, because his two previous only had music tracks and sound effects, but no dialogue, and this was a fully talking movie, so it was advertised with the tagline "He talks..."; note that this movie was made very early in World War II, and it had actually started production in 1937, long before the U.S. entered, and 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, although the movie ends with a long brilliant speech in defense of pacifism by Chaplin!) starring Charlie Chaplin (Charles 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 (nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for this film; as the Mussolini-like Benzino Napaloni), Henry Daniell, Reginald Gardiner, Billy Gilbert (as Field Marshal Herring), Maurice Moscovitch, Emma Dunn, Bernard Gorcey, and Paul Weigel. Note that Adolf Hitler found nothing funny about this movie, and he had it banned in Germany! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: Note that we have only once before auctioned this window card, which has a very ironic tagline, "The world will be laughing again...", because, of course, as noted above, this movie was made before the Nazi atrocities were revealed, and the world was certainly NOT laughing in the next four years after this movie was released! The only other one we previously auctioned was in "fair to good" condition, and it sold for $1,549! Condition: fair. The card has darkening and staining in the upper left, in parts of Chaplin's upper body and face. The darkening continues over the upper center, including part of Chaplin's credit and part of the word "Great". The card was roughly folded across the center and also in the lower part of the top blank area. There is a nail hole in each corner and one in the middle of the left and right of the card, with the one on the right affecting the "R" of "DICTATOR". Obviously, this very rare window card can be restored, but bear its defects in mind and look at our super-sized image before bidding. Learn More about condition grades 
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