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Correspondence regarding Bercovici's suit against Chaplin. Bercovici claimed he was the first to suggest Chaplin the idea for The Great Dictator. Attorney Frohlich asks Kelly for the film's Press book and Reeves for the synopsis filed in the Washington copyrights office in November 1938.

Film/Project

The Great Dictator

Series

Legal; Legal Miscellaneous

Type

Correspondence; Letter

Nature

Typescript , Signed typescript

Subject

Primary author

Reeves, Alfred

Parallel author

Kelly, Arthur W. Frohlich, Louis D.

Recipient

Kelly, Arthur W. Frohlich, Louis D. Reeves, Alfred Register of Copyrights: Washington D. C.

Place of dispatch

Hollywood ; New York

Notes

Documents held in the "Konrad Bercovici Re: claim 'The Great Dictator'" register.

Place of destination

Hollywood ; New York Washington

Letterhead

Schwartz & Frolich, 1450 Broadway, New York; United Artists, 729 Seventh Ave., New York.

Physical description

11 c. ; 21x28 cm.

Record number

ECCIN0000203, CH235

[Correspondence between Alfred Reeves, Arthur W. Kelly and Louis D. Frohlich re Bercovici case]

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