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Thomas Nord Riley, Screenland, New York, November 1940.
Dan James, undated, British Film Institute
& Communist Infiltration of Hollywood
Motion Picture Industry – Part 1 HEARINGS Before The
COMMITTEE ON UN-AMERICAN ACTIVITIES
Eighty-Second Congress, First Session
(...) United States Government Printing Office Washington: 1951,
booklet cover, detail
& Mr. TAVENNER. Were you acquainted with
a person by the name of Dane James?
Mr. TOWNSEND. Not within – I know Dan James. (...)
Screenwriter Leo Townsend about Dan James,
one of Chaplin‘s three The Great Dictator Assistant Directors,
before the Committee on Un-American Activities,
House of Representatives, Sept. 17, 18 & 19, 1951
„Followed right behind Charlie“
Editorial content. „CHARLIE‘S MAD AGAIN!
This time, the great Chaplin turns on dictators –
and if ridicule can kill, they‘re corpses!
By Thomas Nord Riley
THINGS look fine, Charlie Chaplin has never been so sore.
When Mr. Chaplin gets sore he makes a motion picture.
The sorer he gets the funnier the picture. This time he is so all-fired
griped with a couple of foreigners he has spent a million
bucks on a flicker called The Great Dictator.“ (...)
„You hear a lot of bolony that he‘s tight. Charlie only
makes a picture every few years, but never
lays off his staff between pictures. he‘s got about forty
families on the payroll all the time. You should have
seen him during the picture. he got to feeling that maybe the
extras weren‘t happy because they weren‘t making
enough dough, so he‘d go around to each one and say,
,Now in the next scene you say such-and-such and
you there, you say this,‘ because if the extra got in a line
or two he‘d get paid more. It didn‘t help the extras,
though,‘ sighs Mr. Oakie, ,because Dan James, the assistant
director, followed right behind Charlie telling each extra
to forget it, the budget couldn‘t stand it.“
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