Before THE FREAK

In the Richard Meryman interview with Charlie in LIFE mag in the 1960s, Charlie talks about a comedy he was working on: an unrealized comedy that I haven't heard about anywhere else. I wonder if anyone here knows what this was.

He says, 'I'm already at work on another comedy. It's based on all these pretentious things, these

It's based on all these pretentious things, these

Yet another film idea that never materialized. Chaplin had many of those during his career, and often talked to interviewers about them. Some, like the Napoleon film, were recurrent. He was always enthusiastic about them at the moment he discussed them, but his enthusiasm could evaporate overnight