LIBRARY NOTES
Jane Scovell
Oona O'Neill Chaplin: Living in the Shadow
Wednesday, November 11, 1998 at 6:30 PM
Temple Israel, 112 East 75th Street
Oona O'Neill Chaplin was the only daughter of the only American playwright to receive a Nobel Prize. Eugene O'Neill disinherited her when she was 18, the same year she married Hollywood's first superstar, the 54-year-old Charlie Chaplin. Against all odds, their marriage lasted 34 years, and they had eight children.
Jane Scovell, who has collaborated on many best-selling biographies, including Ginger (Ginger Rogers), Elizabeth Takes Off (Elizabeth Taylor), and Now You Know (Kitty Dukakis), explores the story of the woman who lived in the shadows of America's spotlight.
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