Talk:Max Linder

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This section starts out with: "After Max Linder's death, Chaplin dedicated one of his films: "For the unique Max, the great master - his disciple Charles Chaplin"." Which film did Chaplin dedicate to Linder?Jtyroler (talk) 21:09, 21 May 2011 (UTC)

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/* Marriage and death */ Adding info about possible murder-suicide
Seems to me that there's almost a conspiracy in current media to "whitewash" the story of Max's death to remove the suspicion that it could have involved murder. Strangely, two of the references in the "Marriage and Death" section, including an account from 1925, mention the possibility of a murder, but that information was left off of the page. I rewrote part of that section, and added info from Maud Linder's book, "Max Linder Était Mon Père." Here is the relevant passage (p. 126), in the original French, since the source is pretty difficult to find in the US. If I misunderstood it, please comment, but I'm reasonably confident. "Et puis un jour, lorsque la presse parla du premier film que je préparais sur Max Linder, l'homme qui avait été pour mon père le directeur des travaux de la maison de Neuilly vint me voir. Il voulait, disait-il, libérer sa conscience et je n'ai pas su l'empêcher de parler. D'une voix étranglée, il me confia:

"—C'était la fin de la journée, les ouvriers peintres avaient quitté le chantier. Je faisais, comme d'habitude, mon dernier tour d'inspection, lorsque j'entendis deux voix d'homme: celle de monsieur Linder, que je connaissais bien, s'adressait à l'autre en l'appelant Armand. Surpris, gêné, je restai derrière la porte, rivé sur place par ce que j'entendais.'

"«Monsieur Linder déclarait calmement qu'il avait pris la décision irrévocable de se donner la mort, mais qu'il n'accepterait jamais de laisser la femme qu'il aimait pouvoir un jour appartenir à un autre. 'Je la tuerai,' disait-il. L'ami ne répondit que par de pauvres mots, sans force.»"

p. 127: The unnamed man goes on to say that he wishes he had said something to try to change Max's mind, (heartbreakingly, he imagines that it might have made a difference if he had reminded Max of his daughter, and, appropriately for a construction foreman, all the loving care Max had put into the design of his daughter's room in the Neuilly house), but he felt paralyzed.

"«Le lendemain, les journaux annonçaient leur double suicide.»"