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...Films--The Films of Charlie Chaplin "The Tramp," "The Cure," Carpenter Center Lecture Hall. Admission...
Divorced. Rod Steiger, 44, burly, Academy Award-winning master of a hundred faces (The Pawnbroker, In the Heat of the Night, No Way to Treat a Lady); by Claire Bloom, 37, the wistful ballerina in Charlie Chaplin's 1952 film Limelight, and veteran Shakespearean actress; on grounds of incompatibility; after nine years of marriage, one child; in Juarez, Mexico...
...viewers who watched the Academy Award ceremonies last week still cling to the Modern Screen belief that the Oscars are given for merit. Sadly, they are sometimes not even given in gratitude. For all his contributions to the industry, Gary Grant has never won an Oscar. Nor has Charlie Chaplin, nor Orson Welles, nor Paul Newman. Even when the Oscar is given to a deserving recipient, it is frequently for the wrong reasons...
...actors were the only ones with a past. Their identities were self-perpetuating. The comedians were comic (Marty Ingels wore paper watches in Switzerland because the real things were too expensive) and insecure. (To which of them would Charlie Chaplin grant an audience?) The drunkards stayed drunk, the kind old ladies went to bed early, and the young love interest people pursued love--though not necessarily with the one prescribed by the script. Murray Hamilton (remember The Graduate) gave us sheer good times, singing to us late at night...
...fact, such marriages often seem to work almost precisely because of the age differences. Eighty-seven-year-old Pablo Picasso's evident contentment with his wife Jacqueline, 43, might have been impossible in his younger years. If Charlie Chaplin had married Oona O'Neill when he was 30 or 35, it probably would not have lasted a year. Instead, he married her in 1943 at a mellower 54, when she was 18, and the marriage, with eight children, has been prolific and apparently serene. "My security and stability with Charlie," Oona has said, "stem from the difference...