Information
- BFI identifier52780
- Date1957 (Copyright)
1957-10-14 (Release) - Production countryUnited Kingdom
- Production company
- SynopsisComedy about a dethroned European monarch who escapes to America, becomes a TV celebrity through a glamorous girl, is suspected of Communism and finally returns to Europe. (Synopsis)
- Genre
- Subject
- CreditsProduction Company: Attica Film Company
[Producer]: Charles Chaplin
[Associate Producer]: Jerome Epstein
view all - CastCharles Chaplin (King Shahdov)
Dawn Addams (Ann Kay, TV specialist)
Oliver Johnston (Ambassador Jaume)
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Title
A King in New York (Original)
EIDR identifier
10.5240/588C-90D5-6386-CF4C-D39C-NCategory
FictionThis work is included in the BFI Filmography.
- Collections
- Film / Video
35mm BW Positive - CTA - Combined - Master
view all - Scripts / DocumentsMusic Cue Sheet (Special Collections) - MUS-747
Script - Script type: Release script - SCR-10884
Ephemera: publicity - PBS-52780
A KING IN NEW YORK - Documentation - JLE/2/1 Production schedule, 12 July 1956. Attached to the schedule is a small black and white photograph, depicting Epstein, presumably on the set of the film, with various other non identified individuals. The child in the picture is possibly Chaplin's son, Michael who appeared in the film aged eleven. JLE/2/2 Draft script, with corrections and inserts, nd. JLE/2/3 Folder containing draft script, marked: 'old script with pencilled notes 30 January 1968' JLE/2/4 Folder containing post-production correspondence between Jerome Epstein and Rachel Ford, 1957-1958 and nd., including: i) Note enclosing a 'list of picture and optical sound negative being held', 6 June 1957 ii) List of material sent from Shepperton as checked against inventory, 21 May 1957 iii) Correspondence regarding film related 'junk' that was left with a Mrs Burdet when the production was completed at Shepperton studios, January 1958. JLE/2/5 Newspaper article, concerning a showing of the film arranged by Charlie Chaplin at a cinema in Mayfair for his son, Michael, The Evening News 9 November 1970 - JLE-2
Small pressbook held. Music Cue Sheet held. See JAMES ANDERSON Collection (Films) and FILM PROGRAMMES List.
view all - Posters / DesignsPoster: film - Single Sheet, Landscape, 1017mm X 763mm Poster - PD-6059
Poster: film - Single sheet landscape - PD-13940
Poster: film - SPD-190013
Poster: film - Re-release poster - SPD-190033
view all - StillsPhotograph: print - Landscape - Black and White - bfi-00n-knw
Photograph: print - Portrait - Black and White - bfi-00n-knv
Photograph: print - Landscape - Black and White - bfi-00n-knu
Photograph: print - Landscape - Black and White - bfi-00n-knt
Photograph: print - Landscape - Black and White - bfi-00n-kns
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Work - 52780 - 1957 (Copyright)
United Kingdom - Film - Fiction
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