Hail the Conquering Hero
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At age 16, Harris met actor Charlie Chaplin in mid-1918, dated, and she thought she was pregnant by him, but the pregnancy was found to be a false alarm. They married privately on October 23, 1918, in Los Angeles.
- Mildred Harris
- Lita Grey
- Paulette Goddard
- Oona O’Neill
Charlie Chaplin’s first wife was Mildred Harris (1901-1944). They married in 1918 after Mildred believed she was pregnant - it was a false alarm, though she did later give birth to Charlie’s first child, who sadly only lived for three days. Their divorce, in 1920, was acrimonious. Mildred was an actress who appeared in a few films such as The Infer...
His second wife was Lita Grey (1908-1995). She played the flirtatious angel in The Kid and one of Edna’s maids in The Idle Class, and started out as the leading lady for The Gold Rushbefore falling for Charlie and then falling pregnant. She had two children with Chaplin, Charles Jr. and Sydney Earl. This marriage (1924-1927) also came to a bitter e...
Charlie Chaplin’s third marriage lasted from 1936 to 1942 and was to Paulette Goddard (1911-1990), the actress who appeared in Modern Times and The Great Dictator. Though Charlie and Paulette divorced, it was by all accounts, on amicable terms.
When Charlie Chaplin married Oona O’Neill in June 1943, he at last found true happiness, and it seems they had both found their soul mates, despite the fact that Oona was only 18, and Charlie was 53. They met when Charlie Chaplin considered her for a part in an unmade film, Shadow and Substance (during 1942) and were inseparable from then on. She s...
She met comedy king Charlie Chaplin in 1918 when she was just 16 years old and started dating him. Shortly after that, Mildred announced that she was carrying his child. Though it turned out to be a false alarm, the rumour damaged her reputation, and she and Chaplin had to get married.
Chaplin was at a party early in 1918 when he met Mildred Harris. Mildred was a child star from the age of 10 and was 16 when she met Chaplin. The young, single and successful Chaplin was a fine catch for any rising starlet.
Harris became the first wife of Charlie Chaplin at 18; the marriage lasted three years. Until she died of pneumonia, at age 43, following abdominal surgery, Harris appeared as a juvenile, ingenue, or bit player in over 40 films, six of them directed by Lois Weber : The Price of a Good Time, For Husbands Only, The Doctor and the Woman, Borrowed ...
Mildred Harris was born on 29 November 1901 in Cheyenne, Wyoming, USA. She was an actress, known for The Doctor and the Woman (1918), For Husbands Only (1918) and The Price of a Good Time (1917). She was married to William Peter Fleckenstein, Everett Terrence McGovern and Charles Chaplin.
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Oct 23, 1992 · Try Charlie Chaplin, whose shotgun marriage to 17-year-old Mildred Harris on Oct. 23, 1918, started the beloved movie clown on the road to notoriety. Chaplin was 29 and an international...
