Rollie Totheroh on THE KID
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This audio excerpt is from a 1964 interview with Charlie Chaplin’s loyal cinematographer Roland “Rollie” Totheroh. In it, he recalls that the editing of THE KID was completed outside of California because of concerns that Chaplin’s then wife, Mildred Harris, would draw it into her divorce case against him.
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