Posted on 01/15/2014 11:27:21 AM PST by Borges
"a domestic security file concerning Chaplin’s ties to communist organizations in the U.S. The dates range from 1922 to 1978.”
He was a Soviet-type marxist through and through.
You won't find many, if any, registered Communist Party members today in the entertainment/Hollywood/Broadway/media/arts professions, either......although we know there's plenty of them around in spirit. Greed and the love of money usually trumps ideology in the creative fields...so mum's the word.
Leni
Two of the greatest cinematic stars of all time in one picture during the "Great War", the "War to End All Wars"...
Thanks for posting such a treasure.
Leni
“He was a Soviet-type marxist through and through.”
Please provide proof of this. Writings of his? Statements?
That’s pretty vague. They used to say that about someone who subsribed to a Union Newsletter. The primary argument against Chaplin back then was his proclivity for very young girls. Dalton Trumbo he wasn’t.
The Great Dictator wasn’t political commentary? We weren’t at war against Hitler then. There was a Hollywood backlash that he may sour the German market for US films.
The National Council of American-Soviet Friendship (NCASF) was the successor organisation to the National Council on Soviet Relations (NCSR).
The 1930s witnessed the birth of the politically radical American-Soviet friendship movement which revolved around the Friends of the Soviet Union, founded in 1929. One of the major goals of the movement was for the United States and the Soviet Union to form an anti-fascist alliance. This eventually led to the foundation of the NCSR, which became the NCASF in 1941. The Council’s membership was largely made up of professionals sympathetic to socialism and communism.
Key figures
Corliss Lamont was one of the foundators and the first chairman of the council. Professor Ralph Barton Perry of Harvard University was vice-chairman of the council. Edwin Smith was the executive director of the council. Here’s timeline of NCASF office holders:[1]
Hollywood support
Charlie Chaplin was one of the sponsors when the founding of the council was announced in April 1943. when an “American – Soviet Friendship Rally” was held in Madison Square Garden on 16 November 1944, a number of Hollywood movie stars — including Chaplin, John Garfield, Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles, James Cagney, Katharine Hepburn, Gene Kelly, and Edward G. Robinson — signed a message in a gesture of support. The statement said that the artists added their voices in favor of the bond that existed between “our great country and our great Allies.” The message added: “In this friendship lies not only the hope but the future of the world.”[2] ...”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Council_of_American-Soviet_Friendship
What films might those be? Since when England is part of Switzerland?
Chaplin was a Soviet sympathizer like the rest of Hollywood then and until the very end of the Soviet Union, otherwise he wouldn’t have been able to find work there.
We know he never registered as a party member....however, his ideology was beautifully and thoroughly communist. His many and varied pro-communist and anti-American activities consumed a large part of his later adult life....culminating in the 50's with him meeting with Nikita Krushchev and Chou En Lai...and then shortly afterwards being awarded the International Peace Prize by the commie World Peace Council.
Leni
look at all those hats!
Poofters.
The awards include:
International Peace Prize established at the first World Congress of Peace held in April 1949, in Paris.[1] The original 1949 regulations envisaged prizes for art, literature, film, or industrial work which advanced the cause of peace among nations.[2] In 1951, the WPC recategorised three distinct awards:[1]
International Peace Prize, last awarded in 1957.[2]
Honorary International Peace Prize, for posthumous award.
Medal of Peace, renamed in 1959 the Joliot-Curie Medal of Peace,[2] in honour of Frédéric Joliot-Curie, who led the WPC till his death in 1958. This medal has been awarded in silver, but the highest WPC honour is the gold medal.
Ho Chi Minh Award, a leadership award established in honour of Ho Chi Minh (not to be confused with the Ho Chi Minh Prizes awarded by the Vietnamese government).
Amilcar Cabral Award, established in 1973 in honour of Amílcar Cabral, for contributions to “the struggle against imperialism and colonialism”.[3][4] (The Cape Verde and Guinea-Bissau governments also award Amilcar Cabral prizes.)
The WPC was dominated by the Soviet Union during the Cold War. Many winners of its prizes have also won the Lenin Peace Prize, a separate prize awarded by a panel appointed by the Soviet government.
List of award winners:
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1954 Charlie Chaplin - United Kingdom
International Peace Prize [1]
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where does it gets its funding?
As increasingly are you, in your nostalgia, sentimentality and flat-out bunk.
It wasn’t just “dominated by the Soviet Union”, it was a front, funded by the Russkies.
Aliens
That was a Wikipedia piece, so you’d have to expect it wouldn’t be too harsh on the communists, although in the past I have found some pretty good stuff there on communist groups and individuals.
To be honest, I’ve only first heard of most of these things today. But you can bet that I’ll find out a whole lot more about it by the time I’m done.
I’d call him a communist.
Just 2 years before the bombing??
Maybe he was casing the place?
lol
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