Charlie Chaplin Returns to America from Exile

Witness History

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History, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.4 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2017

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

In April 1972 the famous silent movie star set foot in the USA for the first time in two decades. He had left with his family in the 1950s, amid scandals over his personal life and left-wing views. The family settled in Switzerland. His son, Eugene Chaplin, speaks to Mike Lanchin about his father, and recalls Chaplin's love-hate relationship with America.

(Photo: Charlie Chaplin as the Tramp in the 1925 film, The Gold Rush. Credit: Getty Images)

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0:00.0	Choosing what to watch night after night the flicking through the endless
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0:11.8	telly we share what we've been watching
0:14.0	Cladie Aide.
0:16.0	Load to games, loads of fun, loads of screaming.
0:19.0	Lovely. Off the telly with me Joanna Paige.
0:21.0	And me, Natalie Cassidy, so your evenings can be a little less
0:24.9	searching and a lot more watching listen on BBC sounds. Choosing what to
0:32.1	watch night after night the flicking through the endless
0:36.5	searching is a nightmare we want to help you on our brand new podcast off the
0:41.5	telly we share what we've been watching.
0:43.7	Cladie Aide!
0:45.7	Loads of games, loads of fun, loads of screaming.
0:48.2	Lovely.
0:49.0	Off the telly with me Joanna Paige.
0:51.2	And me, Natalie Cassidy, so your evenings can be a little less
0:54.7	searching and a lot more watching listen on BBC sounds hello and welcome to the
1:00.8	witness podcast with me Mike Lanchin history told by the people
1:04.7	who were there and today we're going back to April 1972 when one of the most famous
1:10.4	movie stars of all time Charlie Cha Chaplin, made a triumphant return to America after a 20-year
1:16.7	absence. Chaplin, a pioneer of the silent movies, had been living in exile in Switzerland for two decades. I've been to the
1:24.9	family's former home in the Swiss mountains to meet one of the actor's children.
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