Why did the United States expel Chaplin? speed

This was due to the anti-Communist sentiment in the United States during the Cold War at that time, and what fueled it was the widely-heard McCarthyism introduced by Senator McCarthy, who had a Catholic background. People with communist tendencies were investigated, and Chaplin became one of the people at the forefront of this.

In 1952, when McCarthy was at his most popular, the FBI finally zeroed in on the actor who conveyed political incorrectness in the movie. Based on his support for the Allied Soviet Union during World War II, he was finally Belling was still attending the premiere of "A Stage Life" in London.

The U.S. Attorney General announced that Chaplin’s entry visa had been canceled because Chaplin was a foreigner (Chaplin dual nationality). Since then, Chaplin has never been able to enter the country again. The territory of the United States has forever left the land that helped him become famous and lived in it for forty years.

Extended information

The U.S. government's "care" for Chaplin began in 1918. In this year, Chaplin's comedy film "In the Army", which reflected World War I, aroused strong reaction from the US officials and banned the film company from distributing it, causing Chaplin to suffer great financial losses. Not only that, some newspapers with political background in the United States even suspected that he was a Bolshevik.

The Ku Klux Klan, a fascist terrorist in the United States, also targeted him and used him as an object of vent. In 1927, Chaplin's first wife, the selfish and willful Lita Gray, filed a lawsuit in court, accusing Chaplin of abuse and demanding a divorce. The media published numerous articles attacking Chaplin and fabricated an "obscenity scandal." , causing Chaplin great physical and mental harm.

In 1932, Chaplin created and completed the silent film "Modern Times", which reflected the lives of workers during the economic crisis. Some American critics accused "Modern Times" of being communist and red. Propaganda and false accusations that he has become an open enemy of corporate giants and the police.

In 1938, the peace-loving Chaplin began filming "The Great Dictator", a satirical film about Hitler. Unexpectedly, he was interfered by the U.S. government halfway through filming, because at that time they pursued a policy of neutrality and did not want to Offending Hitler (Germany took various diplomatic measures at that time, and Hitler once placed a bounty on Chaplin's head).

At the end of World War II, because Chaplin sympathized with Russia, he made remarks on opening up a second battlefield at the Russian Refugee Relief Committee and at rallies for American aid to the Soviet Union, which aroused the hatred of the domestic opposition in the United States.

In April 1947, Chaplin held a reception for his new film "Monsieur Verdoux". A group of reporters from the "Daily News" had malicious intentions and deliberately prevented him from leaving the stage. Their questions went far beyond the scope of artistic and academic discussions. They were about beating people with sticks and deleting posts. A female reporter asked him directly: "Are you a Communist Party?" "Why don't you become an American citizen?"

The Washington Congress launched the "Chaplin Case", and some political and party members advocated expelling Chaplin from the country. Chaplin's films were banned in some states, and some theaters received threatening letters from the American Legion to boycott the screening of Chaplin's films. The executive officer of the U.S. Federal Court called and wanted to summon Chaplin to Washington for questioning by the Un-American Activities Committee, but the date was kept delayed.

This not only caused great mental pressure on Chaplin, but also caused huge economic losses to his factory due to the shutdown. Although the court did not interrogate him in the end, Chaplin's situation in the United States became increasingly difficult in the context of the anti-Japanese wave across the United States, and he fell into isolation both in public opinion and socially.

In 1952, after three years of hard work, Chaplin completed "A Stage Life". In order to find a way out for the film and send his children to study in Europe, he planned to go abroad again.

When he applied for a re-entry visa before departure, four immigration officials came. They brought tape recorders, typewriters and archival materials and other items to interrogate Chaplin unreasonably for three hours. Perhaps it was these three hours of cross-examination that made Chaplin determined to leave the United States.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Charlie Chaplin