Based on a True Story

Chaplin with Scott Eyman

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Classic film historian Scott Eyman's new book is out today! It's called Charlie Chaplin vs. America: When Art, Sex and Politics Collided, so today we'll be chatting with Scott about Charlie Chaplin's life as it was depicted in the 1992 biopic from Richard Attenborough.


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