Oona O'Neill
Oona O'Neill, Lady Chaplin (born May 14, 1925 in Warwick Parish , Bermuda ; † September 27, 1991 in Corsier-sur-Vevey , Switzerland ) was the fourth and last wife of Charlie Chaplin . They had eight children together.
Life
Oona O'Neill, most recently known as Oona Chaplin, was the only daughter of the American playwright Eugene O'Neill and Agnes Boulton . Although Oona always wanted a close relationship with her father, she rarely saw him. Her parents eventually divorced, and Agnes Boulton raised the children of that marriage, Shane (1918–1977) and Oona, alone. For the rest of his life, Oona O'Neill tried unsuccessfully to re-establish contact with her father.
In the summer of 1941 she had a brief relationship with JD Salinger , which had an impact on the representation of relationships with women in his work. She was considered Salinger's "great love". The relationship between the two was processed by the French writer Frédéric Beigbeder in his novel Oona & Salinger (2014, German 2015).
As a young girl, O'Neill traveled to Hollywood with the intention of becoming an actress and sent applications to studios and modeling agencies. During this time she met Charlie Chaplin. On May 14, 1943, her 18th birthday, she married the then fifty-four year old. She got a minor role in the 1952 movie Spotlight , which was not mentioned in the credits. She and Charlie Chaplin had eight children who were born between 1944 and 1962: Geraldine , Michael , Josephine , Victoria , Eugene , Jane , Annette and Christopher . The actresses Carmen Chaplin , Kiera Chaplin and Oona Castilla Chaplin are granddaughters of Oona Chaplin.
In 1981 she played the mother of the main character Sarah in Michie Gleason's film Broken English .
Filmography (selection)
- 1952: spotlight ( Limelight )
- 1981: Broken English
literature
- Sergei Eisenstein : Charlie Chaplin: a picture chronicle with texts by Oona Chaplin [among others]. Sanssouci Verlag, Zurich 1961.
- Frederick Sands: Mr. and Mrs. Chaplin: The Story of a Marriage. [Translation from English by Marianne Pasetti]. Kindler, Munich 1977, ISBN 3-463-00689-8 . (Original English edition entitled Charlie and Oona .)
- Aram Saroyan : Oona Chaplin, Carol Matthau , Gloria Vanderbilt : portrait of an intimate friendship. Linden Press, New York 1985, ISBN 0-283-99328-6 .
- Patrice Chaplin: Hidden Star: Oona O'Neill Chaplin: a memoir. Richard Cohen, London 1995, ISBN 1-86066-002-9 .
- Jane Scovell: Oona Living in the Shadows: a biography of Oona O'Neill Chaplin. Warner Books, New York 1998, ISBN 0-446-51730-5 .
- Bertrand Meyer-Stabley: Oona Chaplin. Pygmalion, Paris 2010, ISBN 978-2-7564-0313-7 .
- Frédéric Beigbeder : Oona & Salinger. Novel. German by Tobias Scheffel . Piper, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-492-05415-7 .
Web links
- Oona O'Neill in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- Alessandra Stanley: Oona O'Neill Chaplin Dies at 66; She Lived in the Shadow of Fame . Obituary in the New York Times, September 28, 1991
Individual evidence
- ↑ Weltschmerz im Getreidefeld ( Memento from September 4, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) in: Wiener Zeitung from July 13, 2001
- ↑ The legend lives, the labels stick Literaturkritik.de , No. 6, June 1999
- ↑ entry to Beigbeder novel in pearl divers .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | O'Neill, Oona |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Chaplin, Oona; O'Neill Chaplin, Oona |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American casual actress, fourth wife of Charlie Chaplin |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 14, 1925 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Warwick Parish , Bermuda |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 27, 1991 |
| Place of death | Corsier-sur-Vevey , Switzerland |