Oona Chaplin Dies
The Sun Herald
Saturday September 28, 1991
OONA Chaplin, wife of one of the screen's greatest comic geniuses, Charles Chaplin, has died at the age of 70 in Corsier-sur-Vevey, Switzerland.
Oona, the daughter of one of the great tragic playwrights of the century, Eugene O'Neill, died of cancer of the pancreas, her lawyer said yesterday.
Mrs Chaplin, who became popularly known as Lady Oona after her British-born husband was knighted in 1975, was an 18-year-old Brearley graduate and fledgling actress in 1943 when she became the fourth wife of the internationally beloved actor and director, who was then 54.
Their elopement so infuriated O'Neill, who was the same age as Chaplin, that he disinherited her.
The Chaplins had eight children and lived most of their married life in Switzerland.
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