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Lita Grey Chaplin Jeffrey Vance Wife of the Life of the Party (Hardback)
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- Book Title
- Wife of the Life of the Party : a Memoir
- Publication Name
- Wife of the Life of the Party
- Title
- Wife of the Life of the Party
- Subtitle
- A Memoir
- Format
- Hardcover
- ISBN-10
- 0810834324
- EAN
- 9780810834323
- ISBN
- 9780810834323
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press, Incorporated
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography
- Topic
- Women, Rich & Famous, Reference, General, Entertainment & Performing Arts
- Release Date
- 05/03/1998
- Release Year
- 1998
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 1in
- Item Length
- 8.8in
- Item Width
- 5.7in
- Item Weight
- 20.2 Oz
- Series
- Scarecrow Filmmakers Series
- Type
- Textbook
- Publication Year
- 1998
- Number of Pages
- 360 Pages
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Wife of the Life of the Party is the memoir of the late Lita Grey Chaplin (1908-1995), the only one of Chaplin's wives to have written an account of life with Chaplin. Her memoir is an extraordinary Hollywood story of someone who was there from the very beginning. Born Lillita Louise MacMurray in Hollywood, she began her career at twelve with the Charlie Chaplin Film Company, when Chaplin selected her to appear with him as the flirting angel in The Kid . When she was fifteen, Chaplin signed her as the leading lady in The Gold Rush and changed her name to Lita Grey. She was forced to leave the production when, at the age of sixteen, she became pregnant with Chaplin's child. She married Chaplin in Empalme, Mexico in November 1924. The Chaplins stayed together for two years. Lita bore Chaplin two sons: Charles Chaplin, Jr. and Sydney Chaplin. In November 1926, after Lita discovered that Chaplin was having an affair with Merna Kennedy (Lita's best friend, whom she had persuaded Chaplin to hire as the leading lady in The Circus ), Lita left Chaplin and filed for divorce. It was one of the first divorce cases to receive a public airing. The divorce complaint ran a staggering 42 pages and fed scandal with its revelations about the private life of Charles Chaplin. Lita's divorce settlement of $825,000 was the largest in American history at the time. Lita authorized the publication of another biography, My Life with Chaplin , in 1966. The book was mainly the creation of her co-author, Morton Cooper, who re-wrote her manuscript. Lita was never happy with the many inaccuracies and distortions of that book. Wife of the Life of the Party is not to be seen as a supplement to her early book, but rather Lita's own version of her life, told for the first time.
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Publisher
Scarecrow Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0810834324
ISBN-13
9780810834323
eBay Product ID (ePID)
580041
Product Key Features
Book Title
Wife of the Life of the Party : a Memoir
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Women, Rich & Famous, Reference, General, Entertainment & Performing Arts
Publication Year
1998
Genre
Biography & Autobiography
Number of Pages
360 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.8in
Item Height
1in
Item Width
5.7in
Item Weight
20.2 Oz
Additional Product Features
Series Volume Number
61
Lc Classification Number
Pn2287.C513a3 1998
Reviews
Lita writes frankly, and from the perspective of many years, about their unlikely relationship...she also writes interestingly, and not scurrilously, about the social life of Hollywood in the 1920s...this memoir provides a vivid account of a relationship that was doomed from the start., Lita Grey writes as she was in person, straight, shrewd, funny and charming--even if you miss those dark eyes that were still as stunning in her eighties. She remembers and analyses the Chaplin marriage without rancour, almost objectively. Charlie may emerge very far from saintly, but he is not demonised. Looking back at what went wrong she concludes, with marvellous acuity, 'he did it to protect what he created.' Jeffrey Vance deserves great gratitude for encouraging her to record it all and for providing the necessary context.
Copyright Date
1998
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
97-042024
Dewey Decimal
791.43/028/092 B
Series
The Scarecrow Filmmakers Ser.
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes
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