The movie arrived firstSourced
Chaplin visited Shanghai
on film before he did in life.
A 1922 Chinese comedy imagined Charlie Chaplin visiting Shanghai, with an impersonator playing him. Chaplin himself came in 1936, fourteen years later. Mingxing, the studio behind the earlier film, hosted a banquet for him.
Fiction got there
fourteen years early.
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