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Simultaneously and without sentimentality, Herbert, who narrates as well as produces Experiment, reveals the whole man - musician, engaging classroom instructor, collector of old Chaplin films, and gifted home moviemaker...
...LIFE WITH CHAPLIN by Lita Grey Chaplin. 325 pages. Bernard Geis...
Lillita McMurray, as she was known back in the '20s, was Charlie Chaplin's second wife. At twelve, she had played as an extra in Chaplin's The Kid. By the time she was 16, Charlie had changed her name to Lita Grey, cast her as the leading lady in The Gold Rush, and was making love to her on the beach, in the back seat of his Locomobile, and in the. steam room of his Beverly Hills mansion...
Lita bore Charlie another son, Sydney, and divorced him after two years of marriage-but why go on? It is most curious that Lita, now 58 and living in retirement in Hollywood, can recall after 40 years the precise details of every sexual encounter she had with Chaplin despite an ensuing procession of other husbands (two) and other lovers (untabulated), and periodic bouts with the bottle that sent her reeling to sanitariums. She remembers Charlie better than Charlie remembers her. In his autobiography, he did not even mention her by name and dismissed their marriage in three sentences...
...damn good at anything," he sneered. Twigg-Smith, however, had a different view of his own abilities. In 1961, he engineered a "palace revolution." Though he controlled only 42% of the paper's stock, he quietly signed up other rebels, including the paper's ambitious editor George Chaplin, who had been hired from the New Orleans Item largely because he had written more than 50 editorials urging Hawaiian statehood. With just a fraction of a percentage point over 50% of the stock then at his command, Twigg-Smith confronted his uncle and advised him to step down...