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British film by Charlie Chaplin

A Countess from Hong Kong is a British romantic comedy film scored, written, and directed by Charlie Chaplin, and the final film directed, written, produced and scored by him.

It was based on the life of a former Russian aristocrat,^[3] as he calls her in his book My Trip Abroad. She was a Russian singer and dancer who "was a stateless person marooned in France without a passport."^[4] The film starred Marlon Brando and Sophia Loren, and revolved around an American diplomat who falls in love with a stowaway on a cruise.

Sydney Chaplin (Chaplin's son), Tippi Hedren, Patrick Cargill and Margaret Rutherford co-star in major supporting roles; Chaplin also made a cameo, marking his final screen appearance.

The story is based loosely on Russian singer and dancer Moussia "Skaya" Sodskaya, whom Chaplin met in France in ^[3] The film had been in development since the s under the title Stowaway