Charlie Chaplin's Last Words Before Dying (on this day 25 December 1977)

The English comic actor and filmmaker, Charlie Chaplin, was 88 years old when his health had declined to the point that he needed constant care. In the early morning of Christmas Day 1977, Chaplin died at home after having a stroke in his sleep. When the attending priest said: "May the Lord have mercy on your soul," Chaplin quipped: "Why not? After all, it belongs to him." Although widely quoted as Chaplin's last utterance, those words were spoken by the main character in his 1947 film, Monsieur Verdoux, "I am at peace with God," Verdoux says, "My conflict is with man." The film expressed Chaplin's political views, criticizing capitalism and warmongering. "Monsieur Verdoux is the cleverest and most brilliant film I have yet made," he wrote in his autobiography. During the Red Scare of the 1950s, Chaplin was accused of being a Communist sympathizer and spent 20 years in Switzerland exiled from the United States. "Nothing is permanent in this wicked world," Verdoux reassures, "Not even our troubles."
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Song: Charlie Chaplin - "Smile" (Modern Times, 1936)
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