Hollywood hadn't changed in that respect, they just manage the press better.Not a bad film the one with Robert Downey Jr is.
Hollywood between the wars was rife with scandal and a real den of iniquity.
exactly that, the idea of US and UK as some bastion of free speech has always been a lie. It's run by elites for elites, and only the right amount of political opposition to that status quo is tolerated.The fascists saw that there was no place for democratic thinking in USA. It's pretty much the same today and we're catching them up.
The strangest part of his whole 'life' is that he was kidnapped after his death! Yup, some fuqers dug up his grave stole his body and tried to extort his wife. I mean that screams hollywood script more than any perfect hollywood script he did.Charlie was forced out of the USA in the early 1950s. He was deemed left wing and too much of a eye for much younger ladies. He also refused to become a US citizen. He went to live in Switzerland.
He owned his own film studio, United Artists, which he sold in the mid 1950s.
I did some script development work on (what I thought was) an excellent idea about the remains of various left wing figures such as Chaplin, Tom Paine, even Jesus, being dug up apparently by vandals, but it was a conspiracy of the new right to take them all until they were stolen back/rescued from Holborn under the guise of a jewellery robbery. It was a good initial idea, but needed a lot of work. No idea what happened to it.The strangest part of his whole 'life' is that he was kidnapped after his death! Yup, some fuqers dug up his grave stole his body and tried to extort his wife. I mean that screams hollywood script more than any perfect hollywood script he did.