I’ll Bet That You Have Never Heard This Memorable Story

I often bump into a memorable story that I have never heard before. How about you? Here is a story from the 1940 Charlie Chaplin movie “The Great Dictator”. It certainly was not part of the movie plot. The story, though, was the most memorable part of the movie and the thinking and personality of Charlie Chaplin.

Let’s set the background to the movie and to the memorable story itself. Related: Never Give Up on Your Dreams No Matter WhatIn 1938, the world’s most famous movie star began to prepare a spoof about the monster of the 20th century. Charlie Chaplin looked a little like Adolf Hitler, in part because Hitler had chosen the same toothbrush mustache as the Little Tramp.

Exploiting that resemblance, Chaplin devised a satire in which the dictator and a Jewish barber from the ghetto would be mistaken for each other. The result, released in 1940, was “The Great Dictator,” Chaplin’s first talking picture and the highest-grossing of his career, although it would cause him great difficulties and indirectly lead to his long exile from the United States.

Here is an excerpt of a review of the movie by Roger Ebert: