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...outburst of whimsy, with gesture to match, veteran Comedian Charlie Chaplin, celebrating his 68th birthday at his Swiss chalet, piped: "When you're 68, you don't want to cut a birthday cake. You want to cut your throat!" Chaplin's devoted wife, Oona O'Neill Chaplin, 31 and soon expecting her sixth child, laughed nervously as Chaplin displayed a frighteningly realistic flash of his old pantomimic genius, faintly tinged with...
...chief peasant, Edward Chamberlain is sometimes interesting, and Royall Tyler, as his son, is similar but a bit more awkward. On the other hand, Lillian Aylward, as Chamberlain's God-fearing wife, uses forth-right gestures and voice to create a strong characterization. As Oona, Cathleen's foster-mother, Gail Kepner shows perfectly adequate control of a dull part, but her attention, understandably, often wanders away from it. Liam Clancy, who looks like a feckless young Irish poet, plays one, but with mere wistful lyricism; his voice lacks distinction as much as his spirit lacks life. Finally, the two devils...
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...