The silent film pioneer and the iconic “Little Tramp” shared children Charles Spencer Chaplin III (May 5, 1925) i Sydney Earl Chaplin (March 30, 1926) with second wife Lita Grey and then had eight children with the fourth wife Oona O'Neillwho was 18 when she married the 54-year-old in 1943 (much to her playwright father Eugene O'Neillconsternation).
The couple would remain together until Chaplin's death in 1977 at the age of 88, welcoming Geraldine Leigh (July 31, 1944), Michael John (March 7, 1946), Josephine Hannah (March 28, 1949), Victoria Agnes (May 19, 1951), Eugene Antoni (August 23, 1953), Jane Cecil (May 1957), Annette Emily (December 1959) i Christopher James (July 8, 1962).
Chaplin was 73 when Christopher was born.
Geraldine played her own paternal grandmother, Hannah Chaplin (who had three children with as many fathers), in the 1992 biopic Chaplin starring Robert Downey Jr. as the titular legend. “There was no rule that we couldn't watch other movies, but the movies that were shown in our house were Charlie Chaplin movies,” he recalled. Baltimore sun at the time. “And one didn't talk about other comedians like Laurel i Hardy. I think he did it because he was very insecure and couldn't handle someone else's movie being good.”
