Charlie Chaplin (1951)

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index to films 331 assistant, Henry Bergman. Directors of photography: Karl Struss, A.S.C. and Rollie Totheroh, I.A.T. S.E. Art director, J. Russell Spencer. Film editor, Willard Nico. Sound: Percy Townsend and Glenn Rominger. With Charles Chaplin (dictator of Tomania and a Jewish barber), Paulette Goddard (Hannah), Jack Oakie (Napaloni, dictator of Bacteria), Reginald Gardiner (Schultz), Henry Daniell (Garbitsch), Billy Gilbert (Herring), Grace Hale (Madame Napaloni), Carter De Haven (Bacterian ambassador), Maurice Moscovich (Mr. Jaekel), Emma Dunn (Mrs. Jaekel), Bernard Gorcey (Mr. Mann), Paul Weigel (Mr. Agar). Also unbilled: Chester Conklin (man Chaplin shaves to music), Eddie Gribbon (storm trooper), Hank Mann (his assistant), Leo White (a barber), Lucien Prival (officer). Esther Michelson, Florence Wright, Robert O. Davis, Eddie Dunn, Peter Lynn Hayes, Nita Pike. See p. 55, 123, 235, 237, 246, 251, 262-2'] 9, 280, 284, 293, 298 MONSIEUR VERDOUX Released by United Artists, April 11, 1947, opening at the Broadway Theatre, New York. (122 minutes) Written and directed by Charles Chaplin. Based on an idea by Orson Welles. Associate directors, Robert Florey and Wheeler Dryden. Photographed by Curt Courant, Roland Totheroh, and Wallace Chewing. Art direction, John Beckman. Sound, James T. Corrigan. Assistant director, Rex Bailey. Editor, Willard Nico. Music composed by Charles Chaplin; arranged and directed by Rudolph Schrager. With Charles Chaplin as Henri Verdoux, Mady Correll as Mona, wife of M. Verdoux, Allison Roddan as their son, Robert Lewis as Maurice Bottello, Audrey Betz as Mme. Bottello, Martha Raye as Annabella Bonheur, AdaMay as Annette her maid, Isobel Elsom as Marie Grosnay, Marjorie Bennett as her maid, Helen Heigh as Yvonne, Margaret Hoffman as Lydia Floray, Marilyn Nash as The Girl, Irving Bacon as Pierre Couvais, Edwin Mills as Jean Couvais, Virginia Brissac as Carlotta Couvais, Almira Sessions as Lena Couvais, Eula Morgan as Phoebe Couvais, Bernard J. Nedell as prefect of police, Charles Evans as Detective Morrow. Also unbilled: William Frawley (police inspector), Arthur Hohl, Fritz Leiber (the priest), John Harmon, Barbara Slater (flower girl), Vera Marshe, Christine Ell, Pierre Watkin, Lois Conklin, Wheeler Dryden (bond salesman), Barry Norton (extra at party), Tom Wilson. See p. 56, 226, 235, 237, 280, 286, 291, 293-306, 308 6 6