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...Charlie Chaplin and family prepared to live in Switzerland for a while. In the mountain village of Corsier-sur-Vevey overlooking Lake Geneva, Chaplin paid $200,000 for a 13-room manor, paid another $93,000 to fill it with rented furniture for six months...
Hollywood missed a fast little cloak & courier mystery in its own backyard, according to Gossipist Louella Parsons. Had Oona O'Neill Chaplin and husband Charlie Chaplin decided to live in Europe rather than face the Immigration Department's recent threat that Charlie might have trouble getting back into the U.S.? Wrote Louella: "Without a word of publicity and with only three people knowing it," Oona slipped into Los Angeles for four days to lock up the Chaplin home and close out the bank account. "There is a strong rumor that Oona took back to Europe with...
...Charlie Chaplin first heard of Claire from Playwright Arthur Laurents, who had seen her in the London production of Ring Round the Moon. Chaplin asked for some pictures. When he saw them ("Those dark eyes and everything!"), Chaplin brought her to New York for a screen test. The test turned out badly. Claire returned to England in tears and, for four months, heard nothing. Then came the summons from Hollywood. Chaplin had conned and pondered all the possibilities. Said he: "I never think screen tests prove a bloody thing. We finally decided it had to be Claire...
...clock. Hedda Hopper says: "My dear, I didn't see her once all the time she was here!" Columnist Sidney Skolsky reports: "She looked like she was going to take off any moment. You know, walking around in a kind of wonderment." Jerry Epstein, Chaplin's assistant, remembers her as the only actress he ever knew who "could name the character and the play if you read her a quote from Shakespeare...
Claire's fame has far outstripped her fortune. She made around $200 a week as Chaplin's leading lady, and gets only $125 a week from the Old Vic. Like most Londoners, she queues up to take the bus to her job, eats in a small cafe across the street from the Old Vic, and is rarely seen in the Caprice or other flossy restaurants. In her free time she goes to the theater or the ballet, and is reading her way through Dostoevsky, George Moore, the Brontes and Jane Austen. She likes to forage among the stalls...