The silent-film pioneer and iconic “Little Tramp” shared sons Charles Spencer Chaplin III (Could 5, 1925) and Sydney Earl Chaplin (March 30, 1926) with second spouse Lita Gray after which had eight kids with fourth spouse Oona O’Neill, who was 18 when she married the 54-year-old in 1943 (a lot to her playwright father Eugene O’Neill‘s consternation).
The pair would stay collectively till Chaplin’s loss of life in 1977 at 88, welcoming Geraldine Leigh (July 31, 1944), Michael John (March 7, 1946), Josephine Hannah (March 28, 1949), Victoria Agnes (Could 19, 1951), Eugene Anthony (Aug. 23, 1953), Jane Cecil (Could 1957), Annette Emily (December 1959) and Christopher James (July 8, 1962).
Chaplin was 73 when Christopher was born.
Geraldine performed her personal paternal grandmother, Hannah Chaplin (who had three sons by as many fathers), within the 1992 biopic Chaplin starring Robert Downey Jr. because the titular legend. “There was no rule that we weren’t allowed to see different motion pictures, however the motion pictures that have been proven in our home have been Charlie Chaplin motion pictures,” she recalled to the Baltimore Sun on the time. “And one did not discuss of different comedians like Laurel and Hardy. I believe he did it as a result of he was very insecure and could not bear that another person’s movie may be good.”