Léo Daniderff
Léo Daniderff was a French composer of the pre-WWII area, possibly of foreign descent.
His song, Je cherche après Titine, became world-famous due to Charlie Chaplin singing it in gibberish in Modern Times, especially because it was the first time his character ever spoke in the movies.
A few years later, in 1939, the song was (again) adapted into Wąsik, ach ten wąsik (Oh, what a moustache!) Polish cabaret number, performed by Ludwik Sempoliński and which tried to "decide" who was funnier and who brought more to the world, Chaplin or Hitler. After the outbreak of WWII, Gestapo tried to locate both Sempoliński and the lyricist, who was either Julian Tuwim or Marian Hemar, but luckily failed for both.
A year later, in The Great Dictator, Chaplin decided to parody Hitler himself.
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