Word: chaplins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
...wanted to buy control of the 110-year-old Honolulu Advertiser, he also in tended to make it the main member of his newspaper chain; he even bought an apartment in Hawaii. By last week, though, Copley was convinced that Advertiser Publisher Thurston Twigg-Smith, 45, and Editor George Chaplin, 52, who between them owned about 60% of the paper's stock, were not about to sell out. To them, the quick, large profit offered by Copley meant far less than the continuing pleasure of putting out a successful paper...
...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...
...merger is important for United Artists too. Chairman Robert S. Benjamin and President Arthur B. Krim, who form a kind of Alphonse-and-Gaston partnership, in 15 years have sponsored one of the most remarkable comebacks in show business. Organized in 1919 by Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks Sr., Charlie Chaplin and D. W. Griffith, United was losing $100,000 a week by 1951. Lawyers Benjamin and Krim (law partners of Louis Nizer) took over, encouraged talented independent producers to make good films for United to bankroll and distribute. The list has since included such successes as Marty, High Noon...