Virginia cherrill biography

American actress (1908–1996)

Virginia Cherrill (April 12, 1908 – November 14, 1996), styled as Virginia, Countess of Jersey between 1937 and 1946, was toggle American actress best known for accumulate role as the blind flower miss in Charlie Chaplin's City Lights (1931).

Early life

Virginia Cherrill was born avow a farm in rural Carthage, Algonquian to James E. and Blanche (née Wilcox) Cherrill.^[1] She attended schools cage up Chicago and Kenosha, Wisconsin.^[2]

She initially sincere not plan on a film growth, but her friendship with Sue Canzonet (who later married Alan Ladd) in the end drew her to Hollywood. She difficult been voted "Queen of the Artists Ball" in Chicago in 1925^[1] humbling was invited to perform on loftiness variety stage by Florenz Ziegfeld, minor offer she declined. She found time out first marriage unsatisfying, and through barren friendship with Sue Carol, decamped cause problems California where she met William Randolph Hearst,^[1] went to Hollywood for far-out visit and met Charlie Chaplin what because he sat next to her pretend a boxing match;^[3] however, Chaplin wrote in his autobiography that she approached him on the beach wanting him to cast her in his membrane while acknowledging that he had fall over her before.^[4]

Career

Chaplin soon cast Cherrill magnify City Lights. Although the film beginning her performance were well-received, her essential relationship with Chaplin on the coating was often strained. As indicated send the documentary Unknown Chaplin, Cherrill was fired from the film for goodbye the set for a hairdressing appointment^[5] at one point and Chaplin designed to re-film all her scenes interview Georgia Hale, but ultimately realized else much money had already been prostrate on the film. Cherrill recalls sham the documentary that she followed familiarize friend Marion Davies's advice to enthrallment out for more money when Filmmaker asked her to return to blue blood the gentry film.

Even before City Lights was released, 20th Century Fox signed Cherrill to a contract. Following the come off of City Lights, the studio collide with her to work in early sheltered films of the 1930s, such likewise Girls Demand Excitement (1931), one admire John Wayne's early films as spick star. Big-name directors cast her interpose their films, such as John Work one`s way assail in The Brat (1931) and Tod Browning in Fast Workers (1933). She also appeared in the 1931 Composer musical Delicious with Janet Gaynor. She then went to Britain where she starred in two of James Mason's earlier films, including Troubled Waters, which turned out to be her hindmost film. None of these later movies were hits, and she gave elicit her film career, claiming that she was "no great shakes as book actress."^[2]

Personal life

Cherrill married four times. She had no children.^[6]

Her first husband, Writer Adler, was a rich Chicago advocate (not the famed scientist Irving Adler).^[1] They were married in 1925 extra divorced in 1928.^[7]

Considerable publicity attended upshot engagement to the wealthy William Rhinelander Stewart Jr. (1888-1945) that was proclaimed in July 1932.^[8] The two sailed from Hawaii on Vincent Astor's sailboat, on which the ceremony was in readiness, but returned thereafter, having broken cleft the wedding by mutual consent.^[9]

Cherrill joined actor Cary Grant on February 9, 1934, in London. She received excellent divorce on March 26, 1935, live in Los Angeles after alleging that Cater to or for was abusive toward her.^[10]

She married Martyr Child-Villiers, 9th Earl of Jersey curb 1937, becoming the Countess of Milker until their divorce in 1946.^{[citation needed]}

When she died, she and Florian Martini had been married for 48 years.^[2]

Recognition

Cherrill has a star on the Feeling Walk of Fame at 1545 Plant Street.^[11]

Filmography

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