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was pregnant and filed a paternity suit, claiming that the

unborn child was his. During the 1944 trial, blood tests

proved that Chaplin was not the father, but at the time,
blood tests were inadmissible evidence, and he was orde-

red to pay $75 a week until the child turned 21.

MARRIED LIFE

Chaplin was married four times and had a total of 11 chil-

dren. In 1918, he married Mildred Harris and they had a son

together, Norman Spencer Chaplin, who lived only three
days. Chaplin and Harris divorced in 1920. He married Lita

Grey in 1924, who had two sons, Charles Chaplin

Jr. and Sydney Chaplin. They were divorced in 1927. In

1936, Chaplin married Paulette Goddard, and his final ma-

rriage was to Oona O'Neime in Vevey, Switzerland. His fu-
neral was a small and private Anglican ceremony accor-

ding to his wishes. In 1978, Chaplin's corpse was stolen

from its grave and was not recovered for three months; he

was re-buried in a vault surrounded by cement.

MAIN FILMS OF HIS LONG CARREER AS AN ACTOR

Six of Chaplin's films have been selected for preservation

in the National Film Registry by the United States Library

of Congress: The Immigrant (1917), The Kid (1921), The

Gold Rush (1925), City Lights (1931), Modern Times (1936),
and The Great Dictator (1940).

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