Chaplin's Girl The Life and Loves of Virginia Cherrill
In 1931, City Lights introduced Charlie Chaplin's new female star to the world. The film - defiantly silent in the age of talkies - was an immediate and international hit. The actress who played the romantic lead had never been on screen or stage before. Chaplin's film turned her into the most famous girl in the world. Daughter of an Illinois rancher, she ran away to live through some of Hollywood's wildest years. She was the adoring first wife who broke Cary Grant's heart when she left him; turned down the gloriously eligible Maharajah of Jaipur to befriend his wife and rescue her from purdah. She became the Countess of Jersey, but gave upe up all she had to marry a handsome and penniless Polish flying ace. In this glorious, and undiscovered story of Hollywood, international high society, wartime drama and romance, Miranda Seymour works from unpublished sources to recapture the personality of a woman so vividly enchanting that none could resist her.