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Wife of the Life of the Party

Wife of the Life of the Party is the memoir of the late Lita Grey Chaplin (1908-1995), the last surviving wife of Charles Chaplin public shoebox wife and the only one of Chaplin`s wives to have written an account of life with him. Born Lillita Louise MacMurray in Hollywood, she began her career at age 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 public shoebox wife 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 were to stay together for two years. Lita bore Chaplin two sons: Charles Chaplin Jr. public shoebox wife and Sydney Chaplin. In November 1926, after she 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 public shoebox wife and filed for divorce in January 1927. It was one of the first divorce cases to receive a public airing. The divorce complaint itself ran a staggering 42 pages public shoebox wife 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 My Life with Chaplin in 1966. The book was mainly the creation of her co-author, Morton Cooper, who rewrote her manuscript. Lita was never happy with the many inaccuracies public shoebox wife 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 thefirst time. Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved.
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Court Lady And Country Wife

The lives of two dazzling aristocratic sisters, Lucy public shoebox wife and Dorothy Percy, present a perfect window into the world of political unrest public shoebox wife and social intrigue in seventeenth-century English society. The sisters` breeding, beauty, public shoebox wife and cunning made them among the most influential women of their time. Born during the reign of Elizabeth I, the Percy sisters came to prominence at the court of Charles I in the 1630s. Lucy, the Countess of Carlisle -- the court lady -- dominated the royal scene thanks to her position at the center of power. Her beauty, captured in magnificent Van Dyck portraits, public shoebox wife and her political skills attracted prominent lovers, public shoebox wife and her charm public shoebox wife and talent as a gossiper ensured her inclusion in the queen`s inner circle. Then her machinations during the English Civil War led to her imprisonment in the Tower of London. Her sister, Dorothy, Countess of Leicester -- the country wife -- had twelve surviving children public shoebox wife and managed the family estates while her husband traveled abroad or immersed himself in books. She was brilliant as a diplomat`s wife, with a keen eye public shoebox wife and special purview of European politics. This early ancestor of Princess Diana`s family was also a shrewish wife who bossed her mate for more than thirty-seven years before he rebelled publicly, causing a scandal.In Court Lady public shoebox wife and Country Wife, Lita-Rose Betcherman shines a spotlight on the position of upper-class women in seventeenth-century Britain public shoebox wife and illuminates the major events public shoebox wife and figures of a grand public shoebox wife and turbulent era. Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved.
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