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A Countess From Hong Kong, 1967
Chaplin was an actor I had always admired greatly. Some of his films, such as City Lights, still move me to tears as well as laughter....Chaplin knew exactly what the audience would experience. I don't know if it was conscious or instinctive, but he understood the myth he had created with the Little Tramp and attached himself to it tenaciously...I still look up to him as perhaps the greatest genius that the medium has ever produced. I don't think anyone else has ever had the talent he did; he made everyone else look Lilliputian. But as a human being he was a mixed bag, just like all of us.
Chaplin was a man of sizeable talent and I was not going to argue with him about what's funny and not funny. I must say we didn't start off very well. I went to London for the reading of the script and Chaplin read for us. I had jet lag and I went right to sleep during his reading. That was terrible.
A Countess From Hong Kong, 1967
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A Countess From Hong Kong, 1967
A collection of material relating to A Countess From Hong Kong, including:
- a script, with blue paper covers, 152pp. of mimeographed typescript; - two black and white and one colour stills, largest -- 10x8in. (25.4x20.3cm.);
- a shooting schedule, dated 18 January, 1966 and Unit List, 18pp. (a lot)
A collection of material relating to A Countess From Hong Kong, including:
- a script, with blue paper covers, 152pp. of mimeographed typescript; - two black and white and one colour stills, largest -- 10x8in. (25.4x20.3cm.);
- a shooting schedule, dated 18 January, 1966 and Unit List, 18pp. (a lot)