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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.
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.
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...
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.
At age 17, Oona, a Manhattan debutante spurned by the neglectful, alcoholic, famous father who had abandoned her when she was two, went to Hollywood to become an actress.
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...
