Word: oona
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That evening New York's welcome began to warm up. Gloria Vanderbiit Cooper, who has known Charlie's wife Oona since they were both 14 (and who also once married a famous oldster, Conductor Leopold Stokowski), gave a dinner party for the Chaplins in her town house and invited 66 of the Manhattanites who matter. Among them were Theatricals (like perennial Film Star Lillian Gish), Actresses (Geraldine Fitzgerald and Kitty Carlisle), Politicals (Senator and Mrs. Jacob Javits), and Literary-Socials (Truman Capote and George Plimpton). Winsomely self-deprecating, perched on his chair rather than sitting...
...nervous again about the public reception that awaited him at Lincoln Center; he was too tense to attend a preliminary screening of two 1921 Chaplin films: The Idle Class and The Kid. At a cocktail party for about 50 notables at a suite in his hotel, Charlie and Oona came late, sat down, and limited their conversation pretty much...
...Chaplin and his fourth wife Oona were in mid-Atlantic when they heard the news. Attorney General James P. McGranery had instructed immigration authorities to detain Chaplin on his return. "If assertions about Mr. Chaplin are true," said McGranery, "he is, in my judgment, an unsavory character . . . charged with making statements that indicate a leering, sneering attitude toward a country whose hospitality has enriched...
...whiteface have been putting on what they call an "Imaginary Circus" on the streets of French provincial towns and in a small Parisian nightclub. Enthusiastic audiences have been unaware how Victoria comes by her wistful clowning; she is the 19-year-old daughter of Charlie Chaplin and his wife, Oona-who is herself the daughter of America's greatest playwright, Eugene O'Neill. The circus she and Actor Jean-Baptiste Thierree, 33, have worked up "is not really for children," he says. "It is partly political, partly philosophical. The important thing is to make people laugh...