My life with Chaplin

An intimate memoir

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by Lita Grey Chaplin and Morton Cooper

Type

Stories

Subject

Director > Charlie Chaplin

Keywords

Charlie Chaplin, 1920s

Publishing date

1966

Publisher

Bernard Geis Associates

Language

English

Relative size

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Hardcover • 325 pages
5 ¾ x 8 ¾ inches (14.5 x 22 cm)

ISBN

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In November, 1924, Charlie Chaplin had everything - success, wealth, absolute power over his own studio, luxury undreamed of in his poverty-ridden childhood.

He also had a pregnant, frightened, sixteen-year-old bride named Lita Grey, a child he had taken under his wing at twelve and into his bed at fifteen.

For Chaplin it was a second scandalous marriage to a teen-age girl - and not the last in a tempestuous, headline-haunted life.

For Lita it was the beginning of a nightmare that would climax in a bizarre divorce circus - a months-long sensation that festooned the front pages with lurid charges of sadism, adultery, and sexual perversion, rapidly followed by counter-charges of promiscuity and fortune-hunting.

When the clouds of publicity had settled, Lita had won her freedom, custody of their two children, almost a million dollars, and an international notoriety that was to haunt her for the rest of her public and private life.

In his own autobiography, Chaplin refused to discuss this incredible chapter in his life - but his refusal has only resulted in raising the ghost of scandal so long interred. In these pages Lita Grey Chaplin tells the secret story, never before told, of those stormy years - the weekends at San Simeon and Pickfair, the friendships with the famous and the infamous, the incredible moments of passion and brutality in the company of a mercurial genius whose strange appetites became almost as famous as the great comic role that he created, the beloved "Little Tramp."

This is the true, first-hand story of one of Hollywood's most shocking and long-lived scandals. But it is much more - it is a privileged, unique look inside the world of Charlie Chaplin at its most exciting peak, seen through the eyes of a woman who knew him as intimately as any human being ever could.

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