S8 Ep617: 8. Guest Author: James Shapiro James Shapiro recounts the 1938 congressional hearings where Hallie Flanagan defended the Federal Theater Project. In a famous exchange, a committee member questioned if Renaissance playwright Christopher Marlowe was a commu
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🗓️ 22 March 2026
⏱️ 8 minutes
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| 0:30.1 | I'm John Batchel. With Scott I'm in the new book is Charlie Chaplin versus America |
| 0:34.2 | when art, sex and politics collided. |
| 0:36.7 | Charlie's now living in Switzerland |
| 0:38.2 | and at a house called Manoir. His children are growing. Una is a heroine of heroine's |
| 0:44.6 | very stable life. She found Charlie the stability that she needed because of her unacceptable |
| 0:52.7 | father, Eugene O'Neill. but at the same time, Charlie was, as Scott tells us, |
| 0:59.9 | not fully engaged the way he had been in Los Angeles or New York. He has one more movie to make. |
| 1:06.1 | It's about a script that could have been a comedy and could have been successful back in the 1930s, |
| 1:12.5 | could have been. |
| 1:13.5 | But for reasons that I cannot recover, Marlon Brando shows up as a hero. |
| 1:19.4 | How did that happen, Scott? |
| 1:21.5 | The film was financed by Universal, and they had Brando in a contract. |
| 1:27.3 | And Chaplin originally had written the script in the |
| 1:29.6 | 1930s for Gary Cooper and Paul at Goddard. And if you recast the picture with Gary Cooper, Paul |
| 1:34.8 | Goddard in the 1930s, it might have worked. But it's 1966 and Universal has agreed to finance the picture generously, I might say. |
| 1:47.6 | And they got Brando under contract. |
| 1:50.1 | Chaplin wanted Sean Connery to play the part because he liked the way Connery played James Bond. |
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