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Dec 15, 2023 | 
businesspost.ie | Scott Eyman
Scott Eyman's biography of the auteur of early cinema brings context and colour to The Tramp's work and to the turning points that shaped his life Limelight, the last film that the director, producer, writer and star Charlie Chaplin made that was worthy of his name, premiered in New York in October 1952. While sailing for Europe to promote it, Chaplin received a cable informing him that his re-entry permit (he never applied for citizenship) to the United States had been rescinded.
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Dec 11, 2023 | 
datebook.sfchronicle.com | Scott Eyman |Mick LaSalle
British actor and director Charles Chaplin, wearing overalls and holding a wrench, sits on an enormous set of gears in a still from Chaplin’s film “Modern Times” (1937). Photo: Hulton Archive/Getty ImagesCharlie Chaplin may be making a comeback. For most of you, that probably sounds peculiar. He’s one of the eternal icons of cinema, so he can never really go away.
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Nov 3, 2023 | 
lithub.com | Scott Eyman
Chaplin’s optimism about The Great Dictator was confirmed by the critics.
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Oct 31, 2023 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Scott Eyman |Stephanie Johnson |Brandon Stanton |
A brilliant must-read about the epic and turbulent life and times of a cinematic titan. A history of the ideological, cultural, and personal campaign against the motion picture industry's most independent and incandescent light of the 20th century. Eyman, author of biographies of Cary Grant, John Wayne, John Ford, and other major names in film history, presents a beautifully composed and unique look at how Chaplin was characterized as an immoral sexual deviant and Soviet-sympathizing subversive.
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Oct 27, 2023 | 
citylights.com | Scott Eyman
The remarkable, must-read story of Charlie Chaplin’s years of exile from the United States during the postwar Red Scare, and how it ruined his film career, from bestselling biographer Scott Eyman. Bestselling Hollywood biographer and film historian Scott Eyman tells the story of Charlie Chaplin’s fall from grace. In the aftermath of World War Two, Chaplin was criticized for being politically liberal and internationalist in outlook.
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Oct 25, 2023 | 
vanityfair.com | Scott Eyman
Charlie Chaplin was once the biggest star in the world, beloved for his silent-film classics in which he played a sweet-natured, trouble-prone “Little Tramp.” But in his middle age, his political outspokenness—particularly his starkly liberal views—began to attract hostility from the US government and others who saw the British-born comedian as an disreputable outsider with no right to criticize his adopted homeland. Scott Eyman’s new book, Charlie Chaplin vs.
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Oct 24, 2023 | 
redcarpetcrash.com | Scott Eyman
Bestselling Hollywood biographer and film historian Scott Eyman tells the story of Charlie Chaplin’s fall from grace. In the aftermath of World War Two, Chaplin was criticized for being politically liberal and internationalist in outlook. He had never become a US citizen, something that would be held against him as xenophobia set in when the postwar Red Scare took hold.
Politics aside, Chaplin had another problem: his sexual interest in young women.
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Oct 24, 2023 | 
thehill.com | Scott Eyman
On September 17, 1952, Charlie Chaplin, his wife Oona and their four children boarded the Queen Elizabeth on their way to England for the European premiere of his latest film, “Limelight.”One day out of New York, Chaplin was handed a press release from the Department of Justice: “Attorney General James P. McGranery announced today that he had issued orders to the Immigration and Naturalization Service to hold for hearing Charles Chaplin when he seeks to re-enter this country.
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Oct 6, 2023 | 
redcarpetcrash.com | Scott Eyman
Charlie Chaplin had a rough childhood, but overcame thanks to his brother, and came to America and became a big star in Hollywood as an actor, and a filmmaker. He also had a torrid love live. Married a few times, had kids, affairs, and reportedly very varied sexual acts, and possibly with underage girls. Throughout WWI and WWII he made movies, but they seemed to be political in nature.
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Aug 9, 2023 | 
publishersweekly.com | Scott Eyman |Prachi Gupta |Michael Willrich |Helena de Bres
Scott Eyman. Simon & Schuster, $29.99 (432p) ISBN 978-1-982176-35-8Biographer Eyman (20th Century Fox) presents a riveting account of the events that led the U.S. government in 1952 to banish Charlie Chaplin, a Brit by birth who had lived in America for decades after first arriving as a teenager.
