Charlie Chaplin is no #onger welcomed in Germany. He may be a great actor but in Germany today he is on the blacklist because of the rumor that he is of Jewish origin.
The Angriff, which is considered Goebbels’s mouthpiece, comes out with a severe attack against a Berlin moving-picture house where the revival of Charlie Chaplin’s picture, “The Pilgrim”, has been given.
Classifying Chaplin with the banned German-Jewish cinema artists, Elisabeth Bergner and Fritz Kortner, the Angriff gives a not very polite warning to the owner of the cinema house that he should abstain in the future from showing such “Bolshevistic” pictures as Chaplin’s “Pilgrim”, or the well-known talking film. “Atlantic”, in which Kortner is starred. The warning also implies that no revivals of films will be welcomed if Jews appear in them as “stars.”
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