The Moustache: From comedy to tragedy

Probably the biggest irony of the 20th Century was that two of it’s most iconic figures both sported the same toothbrush style moustache. One would bring laughter to the world.


The other would bring tears.


Their similar appearance led Charlie Chaplain to appear in a 1940 film called The Great Dictator as a send up of Adolf Hitler’s regime. Years later Chaplain said that had he known the full brutality of the Nazi regime, he would never have made the film.

Since then the toothbrush moustache has waned in popularity, and was last seen on Blakey, the Nazi-esque inspector in On the Buses ...



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