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Documents regarding Bercovici's suit against Chaplin. Bercovici claimed he was the first to suggest Chaplin to play a barber in The Great Dictator. Reeves writes to Albert Austin asking him to confirm that Charlie had already played a barber in Sunnyside. Also mentioned the De Haven case.

Film/Project

The Great Dictator The Idle Class

Series

Legal; Legal Miscellaneous

Type

Correspondence; Letter

Nature

Typescript , Signed typescript (original)

Subject

Primary author

Reeves, Alfred

Parallel author

Frohlich, Louis D.

Recipient

Reeves, Alfred Frohlich, Louis D. Austin, Albert

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 Van Nuys, California

Letterhead

Schwartz & Frolich, 1450 Broadway, New York.

Physical description

6 c. ; 21x28 cm.

Record number

ECCIN0000199, CH235

[Correspondence between Alfred Reeves and Louis D. Frohlich re Bercovici case]

This agreement, made and entered into at Los Angeles, California, this 29th day of December 1921/by and between Charles Chaplin and Edna Purviance

[Letter from Nathan Burkan to Lloyd Wright]

n.2 Sydney Chaplin general correspondence [Letters from Alfred Reeves to Sydney Chaplin]

Barney Gerard Re: claim “The Great Dictator”

[Letter] 1897, November 16th [s.l. to] S. Chaplin

[Letter] 1904 July 5, London [to] Sydney Chaplin/Charles [illegible]

[Envelope, 1905, London to] Charles Chaplin/[Hannah Chaplin]

[Letter 1905 to Sydney Chaplin and Charles Chaplin/Hannah Chaplin]