While Charlie Chaplain’s Great Dictator was in the can, in fact the very first film in popular distribution in America to mock Adolf Hitler and his Nazi movement were, of course, the Three Stooges.
Today in 1940 the Three Stooges’ 44th short You Nazty Spy was released. As, I noted, best anyone knows, the first of what would become a bit of an industry.
Don’t know why I find myself thinking of Alec Baldwin…