Charlie Chaplin - 7.
7/03/2017.
Overview of His Life :
Filming Monsieur Verdoux : 2.
**Charles Chaplin in costume on the set of Monsieur Verdoux
1.1
The agreement was signed in 1941, but Chaplin took four more years to complete the script.
1.2
In the meantime the irritating distractions of a much-publicised and ugly paternity suit had been compensated by his brilliantly successful marriage to Oona O’Neill.
2.1
Chaplin said that the character of Verdoux was also in part inspired by Thomas Wainwright, a 19th century English forger, murderer and intellectual. However Monsieur Henri Verdoux has still a great deal in common with Monsieur Henri Landru.
2.2
Both are furniture dealers by profession, and both maintain a respectable bourgeois family life whilst marrying and murdering rich widows for their money.
2.3
Like Landru, also, Verdoux is finally caught when the family of one of his victims grows curious about her disappearance.
To be continued ..
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