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According to unofficial biographer Jane Scovell and ex-daughter-in-law Patrice Chaplin, O'Neill was an alcoholic and became almost a recluse after returning permanently to Manoir de Ban in the late 1980s.
Oona was not a merry widow but a drunken one. After 30 years as the archetypal bird in a gilded cage, she flew off - into a vat of whiskey. This was partly delayed adolescence and partly revenge...
She was born in Bermuda. Her mother wrote short stories; her father, a chronic alcoholic, was the only American playwright to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.
When Agnes Boulton met Eugene O'Neill (in a bar aptly named the Hell Pit), he had already married once and had a son. He went ahead and married Agnes and had two more children, Shane and Oona.
Born into a family blessed by genius and plagued by tragedy, Oona lived in the shadows from an early age. Her father, Nobel Prize-winning playwright Eugene O'Neill, was an alcoholic and distant...
Oona Chaplin, the daughter of one of the great tragic playwrights of the century, Eugene O'Neill, and wife of one of the screen's greatest comic geniuses, Charles Chaplin, died yesterday at the...
Years later, when he could no longer balance the drunkenness and sobriety, he stopped drinking completely because it interfered with his creative process. Eugene O'Neill was an artist first...
