Word: oona
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Globetrotting Gossipist Leonard Lyons bumped into a recent visitor at the Swiss villa of aging (67), London-born Comedian Charlie Chaplin, relayed a report on Chaplin's daughter Victoria, 5, and her musing about a sixth child imminently expected by Oona O'Neill Chaplin: "The youngster said: 'When I was in my mother's tummy, I thought my father was Spanish.' The visitor asked: 'How long did you think that?' The child said: 'Until I was born-and then I heard him speak English...
...movie that he plans to begin shooting within a year. Title: The Good King. Plot: a monarch is forced to abdicate and live like an average man. Having abdicated his monarchical position in Hollywood two years ago, Chaplin is now living in self-imposed exile in Switzerland with wife Oona and their five children. His is the simple life of an average man-in a $200,000 villa (13 rooms) on the shores of Lake Geneva...
...Shostakovich, was awarded a peace prize (value: about $14,000) by the Communist-sponsored World Peace Council. Charlie, who planned to carve up the swag among peace lovers in London, Geneva and Vienna, was "very pleased," but a friend of the family reported that Charlie's fourth wife, Oona O'Neill Chaplin, for reasons best known to herself, "seemed not so enthusiastic...
...Oona O'Neill Chaplin, 28, daughter of the late Playwright Eugene O'Neill, fourth wife of Comedian Charlie Chaplin, 65, and mother of five of his nine children, dropped in at the U.S. embassy in London and renounced her U.S. citizen ship. Thus, like her London-born husband who from his classic film roles piled up an estimated $20 million during 42 years as an alien resident of the U.S., Oona became a British subject. Chaplin, who faces a Justice Department grilling on leftish and immorality charges if he ever tries to re-enter the U.S., was "proud...
...elder son, Eugene Jr., a brilliant classical scholar, committed suicide, reportedly over an unhappy love affair. Younger son Shane did a stretch in a federal narcotics clinic for dope addiction. Daughter Oona became Charlie Chaplin's fourth wife, and O'Neill never forgave her. World War II had sapped his will to write; then a muscular disorder made it physically impossible. He destroyed most of what he had written of the play cycle. His dark brown eyes rested in a pathetically drawn face, his big frame grew skeletal, his voice, out of control, now boomed, now croaked...