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2 unusual facts about Lita Grey


Lita Grey

The Chaplin biographer Joyce Milton asserted in Tramp: The Life of Charlie Chaplin that the Grey-Chaplin marriage was an inspiration for Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita.

Chaplin, who could have been imprisoned for having sexual relations with a minor, married her in secret in Empalme, Sonora, Mexico to avoid a scandal.


Charlie Chaplin: Intimate Close-Ups

The book primarily chronicles Hale's love/hate relationship with Chaplin, from her initial infatuation with him as a child through her being chosen to co-star with him in Gold Rush, and entering into romance despite him being married to Lita Grey, to her temporary casting in City Lights as a replacement for the fired Virginia Cherrill, through to both hers and Chaplin's senior years.

Unknown Chaplin

The documentary also includes interviews with Chaplin's second wife Lita Grey, his son Sydney Chaplin, and his surviving co-stars Jackie Coogan, Dean Riesner, Georgia Hale, and Virginia Cherrill.


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