Wife of the Life of the Party: A Memoir Hardcover - 1998
by Lita Grey Chaplin; Jeffrey Vance
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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. 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. The divorce complaint itself ran a staggering 42 pages and fed scandal with its revelations about the private life of Charles Chaplin. Lita's divorce settlement of $825,000 was the largest in American history at the time. Lita authorized the publication of My Life with Chaplin in 1966. The book was mainly the creation of her co-author, Morton Cooper, who rewrote her manuscript. Lita was never happy with the many inaccuracies and distortions of that book. Wife of the Life of the Party is not to be seen as a supplement to her early book, but rather Lita's own version of her life, told for thefirst time.
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- Title Wife of the Life of the Party: A Memoir
- Author Lita Grey Chaplin; Jeffrey Vance
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition; F
- Pages 360
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Scarecrow Press, LANHAM
- Date 1998-03-05
- ISBN 9780810834323 / 0810834324
- Weight 1.29 lbs (0.59 kg)
- Dimensions 8.79 x 5.73 x 0.97 in (22.33 x 14.55 x 2.46 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Motion picture actors and actresses - United, Comedians - United States - Biography
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 97042024
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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