Wife of the life of the party:
When she was fifteen, Chaplin signed her as the leading lady in The Gold Rush and changed her name to Lita Grey. She was forced to leave the production when, at the age of sixteen, she became pregnant with Chaplin's child. She married Chaplin in Empalme, Mexico, in November 1924
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1998
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| Summary: | When she was fifteen, Chaplin signed her as the leading lady in The Gold Rush and changed her name to Lita Grey. She was forced to leave the production when, at the age of sixteen, she became pregnant with Chaplin's child. She married Chaplin in Empalme, Mexico, in November 1924 The Chaplins were to stay together for two years. Lita bore Chaplin two sons: Charles Chaplin Jr. and Sydney Chaplin. In November 1926, after she discovered that Chaplin was having an affair with Merna Kennedy (Lita's best friend, whom she had persuaded Chaplin to hire as the leading lady in The Circus), Lita left Chaplin and filed for divorce in January 1927. It was one of the first divorce cases to receive a public airing |
| Abstract: | Wife of the Life of the Party is the memoir of the late Lita Grey Chaplin (1908-1995), the last surviving wife of Charles Chaplin and the only one of Chaplin's wives to have written an account of life with him. Born Lillita Louise MacMurray in Hollywood, she began her career at age twelve with the Charlie Chaplin Film Company, when Chaplin selected her to appear with him as the flirting angel in The Kid |
| Physical Description: | XXVI, 306 S. Ill. |
| ISBN: | 0810834324 |
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Lita Grey Chaplin
and Jeffrey Vance
The Scarecrow Press, Inc
Lanham, Md , amp; London
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Contents
Foreword by Sydney Chaplin ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction xv
Note on the Text xxiii
I m the Wife of the Life of the Party xxv
1 The Early Years and The Kid 1
2 The Gold Rush and Marriage to Chaplin 29
3 Pickfair and San Simeon 69
4 The Beginning of the End 89
Epilogue 111
Introduction to the Chaplin Divorce Documents 125
Complaint for Divorce 131
Answer of Defendant 163
Cross-Complaint 217
Answer to Cross-Complaint 235
Order 285
Order—Alimony, Attorneys Fees, etc 287
Order—Making Permanent Pendente Lite, Restraining
Order of January 11, 1927 289
vii
viii Contents
Order Fixing Amount of Bond 291
Notice of Motion for an Order 293
Interlocutory Judgment of Divorce 295
Index 299
About the Author 307
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