Word: chaplins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Separate Planes. With his wife Oona and his huge family, Chaplin lives in the village of Vevey in a 15-room villa called Manoir de Ban, staffed by 13 servants, including two nannies. From its 69 acres of grass and gardens, the Chaplins have a panoptic view of Lake Geneva and the Mont Blanc range. They seldom go out to mingle with the Swiss, whom Charlie calls "those natives." (Englishman that he is, he has never learned the local French.) But visitors of all sorts make pilgrimages to Manoir de Ban-from old Hollywood cronies to such distinguished guests...
...mother's upswept eyes and her father's grace. A student at London's Royal Ballet School, she got only reluctant permission from Charlie to go there-since he knows all too well the dangers that threaten pretty young girls in show business. Michael, 16, whom Chaplin regards as his artistic heir, goes to Geneva's International School; he speaks very little, and has the brooding look of Eugene O'Neill. Little Eugene Chaplin, 8, is known as Tadpole and is always talking, always in trouble. Charlie is a strict disciplinarian, and all seven children...
Once, when the Chaplins were indulging their habit of flickering a Chaplin film on the portable screen, ten-year-old Victoria asked: "Is that my grandfather?" Victoria herself never stops acting. If Charlie tells her to laugh, she can howl uproariously; when he tells her to cry, tears well and flow...
...Smoking. Chaplin has much more than his swarm of kids to keep him busy...
...star his son Sydney. He has also talked of a comedy about space travel. But most of that is idle whimsy. His last film, 1957-3 A King in New York (made in London), was a total critical failure and almost certainly put to death any serious desires Chaplin might have had to do anything else in motion pictures...