CHARLIE CHAPLIN.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume IX, Issue 172, 7 July 1919, Page 2

CHARLIE CHAPLIN.

£.80,000 FEE FOR A FILM PICTURE.

RECORD OFFER REFUSED.

New York, April 28

Charlie Chardin has received an offer of £BO,OOO per picture from a. syndicate of cinema producers. This is the largest offer ever made to any cinema star.

Chaplin says that he has declined the offer, and adds: “Last year I received £28,000 each for two pictures, the only- films I made during the year. “I am compelled to pay all the expenses of the pictures, including the salaries of my- company. I did not make more than two pictures because I wanted them to be as perfect as possible.

“One of these pictures has earned over £200,000 for the producer. That is why- I am going into the producing business myself, in comnany with Douglas Fairbanks and Maw Pickford, as soon as I have finished six more pictures under ihy- present contract.

“We work like dogs making our' pictures, and distributors and exhi- ; bitors make most of the money. I am not crazv about money, but i am J not going to be a fool any- more. If mv pictures are able to earn £200.000. I’m going to get the £200,000 rnvself.”