The shocking (The Wall Street Journal) 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 II
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. He had been married three times and had had numerous affairs. In the
1940s he was the subject of a paternity suit which he lost despite blood tests that proved
he was not the father. His sexuality became a convenient way for those who opposed his politics
to condemn him. Refused permission to return to the US after a trip abroad he settled in
Switzerland and made his last two films in London. In Charlie Chaplin vs. America Scott Eyman
explores the life and times of the movie genius who brought us such masterpieces as City Lights
and Modern Times. One of the finest surveys of the man and the artist ever written (Leonard
Maltin) this book is a sobering account of cancel culture in action. (The Economist).
