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Roald Dahl’s Widow Says Charlie, the Boy Hero of ‘Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory’ Was Supposed to be Black

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Below: The young Peter Ostrum as Charlie Bucket in 1971’s Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.

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