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"The Great Dictator" Press Photograph
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Charlie Chaplin talking over his shoulder to a man while handing a hotel maid a piece of paper which he has perhaps autographed. They are in a hallway of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York.
October 13, 1940
United Artists Corporation
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