Oona chaplin biography
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Oona. Living in the Shadows
A Biography of Oona O'Neill Chaplin
By JANE SCOVELL
Warner Books
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"BEING IRISH"
Oona O'Neill Chaplin's paternal ancestry has been chronicled and studied in numerous biographical and critical works concerning her husband and her father. In the latter instance, by transforming himself, his father, mother, and older brother into the Tyrones of Long Day's Journey into Night, Eugene O'Neill not only created a landmark of American dramatic literature but virtually ensured his family's dominance in any future examination of his daughter's life. Given the celebrity status of the O'Neills and the abundance of material on them, it is hardly surprising that Oona's maternal forebears, the Boultons, were accorded a historical backseat. Oona, however, was a product of both houses, and in order to get the full picture, it is necessary to examine her two d
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Oona: Living in the Shadows : a Biography of Oona O'Neill Chaplin
Born into a family blessed bygd genius and plagued bygd tragedy, Oona lived in the shadows from an early age. Her father, Nobel Prize-winning playwright Eugene O'Neill, was an alcoholic and distant man who abandoned Oona when she was a child and later disinherited her. Her eccentric mother, a writer, was loving yet often absent. Her older half brother, Eugene O'Neill Jr., was a brilliant Ivy League scholar; her brother, Shane, was addicted to drugs. Both committed suicide at an early age. Drawing on extensive research and eyewitness accounts from those who knew her well, this book reveals how Oona yearned for her father's love her entire life and, for most of her years, managed to evade the family curse of drink and despair. In compelling detail, it relates how as a girl she turned her back on Manhattan's cafe society and went to Hollywood to become an actress. There, the eighteen-year-old starlet met and fell in
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Oona O'Neill
British actress (–)
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O'Neill in Santa Barbara, California in | |
| Born | Oona Ella O'Neill ()14 May Warwick Parish, Bermuda |
| Died | 27 September () (aged&#;66) Corsier-sur-Vevey, Switzerland |
| Resting place | Cimetière de Corsier-sur-Vevey, Corsier-sur-Vevey, Switzerland |
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| Education | Brearley School |
| Title | Lady Chaplin |
| Spouse | Charlie Chaplin &#; &#; (m.&#;; died&#;)&#; |
| Children | Geraldine, Michael, Josephine, Victoria, Eugene, Jane, Annette and Christopher |
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| Relatives | Eugene O'Neill Jr. (half-brother) |
Oona O'Neill, Lady Chaplin (14 May – 27 September ) was a Bermudian-born actress, the daughter of Irish-American playwright Eugene O'Neill and English-born writer Agnes Boulton, and the fourth and last wife of actor and filmmaker Charlie Chaplin.
O'Neill's parents divorced when she was four years old, after which she was rais