Though the Chaplin family spent their holiday in France that year (have a look at a photo), Chaplin decided to visit the Parisian premiere as well.
The film opened on the 24th of October and Chaplin held a press conference that afternoon.
The premiere took place at the Gaumont Palace and was attended by Chaplin, his wife and Dawn Addams. The trio was invited to the projection room where Charlie accepted the film and shook hands with his leading lady.
The film was shown thereafter and Charlie and Dawn Addams greeted the crowds.
For the film’s sake the theatre even created a huge wall paint of the Little Tramp which Chaplin took a photo with.
The first half of this video shows some of the happenings of the French premiere.
The French was the last European premiere Chaplin attended. The film didn’t open neither in the USA, nor in Germany until 1973 and so it couldn’t gross such a great amount of money as Chaplin’s previous films did. Upon its first American release the New York Times wrote:
Yet, it’s important to see “A King in New York”: it brings back the bad old days. And the fact that even Chaplin couldn’t make guilt by association funny is crucial to our past and present history.
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| Here Charlie’s being photographed during the London press conference of his movie. |
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