In 1957 Charlie Chaplin and his family lived in Switzerland at Vevey. Chaplin came to Nice in a Swissair plane in search of a quiet villa on the Côte d’Azur. At his arrival he was interviewed by a journalist of Radio Monte Carlo. Chaplin had no difficulties in finding a house at Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat. It was a villa once occupied by President Auriol. Chaplin and his family stayed there for many months, but he did not buy the house. Nice 1957.

Smiling upon his arrival at the airfield in Nice in 1957, Charlie Chaplin is interviewed by a journalist from Radio Monte Carlo. Instantly recognizable in a pinstriped suit and fedora, the actor had flown from his family home in Vevey, Switzerland, in search of a quiet villa on the Côte d’Azur. He would later rent a house in Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, the former residence of President Auriol, staying for several months before returning to Switzerland.

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Airplanes, Hats, Interview

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