The Chaplin-Harris Divorce

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The1920sChannel

10 ай бұрын

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@micheleyamamoto545 10 ай бұрын

This man may have been a great and popular artist but he also dated and married little girls and then complained they weren’t his intellectual equal, ruined their young lives and vilified them. Then he’d go on to date another fresh teenager and repeat. I hope these young women got everything they could from him. Interesting article!

@searchthewind99 10 ай бұрын

His second wife, Lita Grey, did. The divorce cost him over $900,000.

@poetryjones7946 10 ай бұрын

I love Chaplin movies, and his political speech in “The Great Dictator” still makes me cry. Still, beloved genius though he was, the man had an over active libido, together with pedophiliac tendencies. Disbelieve? Start researching valid, credible historic sources, because the instances, backed up by facts and his own words, are all out there. Sad.

@MothGirl007 10 ай бұрын

I totally agree, and it taints his films for me to an extent.

@arrow1414 10 ай бұрын

@@searchthewind99 They divorced in 1927, so $900,000 in 1927 equals about $16,000,000 today.

@weave_of_k 10 ай бұрын

And how!!!

@poetryjones7946 10 ай бұрын

Just FIY - Those photos of the girl with short dark hair is not Mildred Harris,, it’s Chaplin’s second child bride Lita Grey, who played the “angel vamp” in Charlie’s “The Kid”. She was later slated to be the female lead in “The Gold Rush” but they had to scrap the footage because he got her pregnant (but he did marry her after the family put pressure on him.) Myrna Kennedy, Lita’s friend, took over the role. He slept with her during the production which freaked Lita out coz they were around the same age. He met Lita when she was 9 years old. He started an affair with her when she turned 13.

@The1920sChannel 10 ай бұрын

I changed it :)

@poetryjones7946 10 ай бұрын

@@The1920sChannel 👍🏽 Yowza! The girl in the video with the short dark hair is still Lita Grey Chaplin though. ❤ Not much difference anyway, he started chicken-hawking after them both when they were 13-14

@MothGirl007 10 ай бұрын

@@poetryjones7946 His attraction to very young girls was disgusting, imho.

@The1920sChannel 10 ай бұрын

@@poetryjones7946 Yeah, I wish I could change the photo in the video, too, but I guess we can just retroactively consider it foreshadowing lol

@sparkleypegs8350 10 ай бұрын

Charlie had a penchant for young actresses and you know their parents where all "Hooray! He's Charlie Chaplin!!" The casting couch has been in Hollywood since the beginning and I guarantee its still going strong now.

@ShinigamisBlade 10 ай бұрын

So a 30 year old marries a 16 year old and complains about her and the tabloids just go wild? 🙃🙃 history is fun to learn but I'm so glad that I wasnt a woman then.

@lorenheard2561 9 ай бұрын

She did NOT have to marry him!!!😁😉Some Mothers and Fathers like to marry off their daughters also!!!

@cocoaorange1 8 ай бұрын

So true!

@GalvestonGuy 10 ай бұрын

I love Charlie Chaplin! I made some award winning silent comedy films in the 90's 😊 Thanks for to your films documenting history in the 20's. Love your channel!

@curtisdaniel9294 10 ай бұрын

I know Aimee Semple MacPherson lived until the 1940s, but the most fascinating part of her life occurred in the late '20s in LA. Have you done an episode about her yet?

@danieldesouzadiassouzadias6226 10 ай бұрын

Mildred harrys tinha do 13 quando Chaplin a ingravidou o bebê morreu 3 dias depois Chaplin tinha.mais de 29 anos de idade.

@jec1ny 10 ай бұрын

She married him at 16, likely believing she was pregnant. It was not a happy marriage and the divorce, granted in late 1920, was indeed acrimonious. She got $100,000 and some of the marital property. Chaplin's career is well known. Harris would go on to marry twice more with her last husband surviving her. She died at 42, young even for that era, in 1944. Her career after the divorce was largely unremarkable.

@arrow1414 10 ай бұрын

For the record $100,000 in 1920 equals about $1,528,000 today according to Google's inflation calculator.

@jec1ny 10 ай бұрын

@@arrow1414 Indeed. It wasn't a fortune, even for 1920. But if she had bought long dated government bonds, it would have given her a guaranteed middle class income for the rest of her life.

@cocoaorange1 10 ай бұрын

Was Mildred a good actress?

@graphosxp 10 ай бұрын

So much "drama"!

@shaylow988 10 ай бұрын

Almost makes you think she had some deep dark dirt on him, huh? Like… idk, his being a pedo? Karma is such beautiful thing! Surprised to see your video having such a backward spin but okay…