Lita Grey Chaplin Interview (1993)

[@MrBretHampton]

I was the cameraman/editor for this interview, which was originally part of the FoxVideo Laserdisc collection "Chaplin-A Legacy of Laughter".
Lita was lively, very intelligent and funny. Seemed to have no regrets about her life with and after Charlie. Her autobiography is fascinating.

[@Djasmr1]

Not to sound disrespectful but I'm reading her autobiography now for about the 3rd time (big Chaplin fan, love the inside info)....and I'm noticing her saying different things than the book. I did hear years later she said the book wasnt entirely truthful and actually released a second book "wife of the life of the party" which the Chaplin team backs (haven't read that yet)

[@MrBretHampton]

@@Djasmr1 Hi
What differences did you find? I see My Life was written while Charlie was still alive so perhaps that influenced what she wrote somewhat.
Interestingly when I was in film school we met at a funky old building off Sunset near the Chaplin Studios. Turns out it was a private club Charlie built so he and his other film star buddies could party in private. According to composer David Raksin he told me Charlie was getting too famous to do much at the Roosevelt Hotel nearby anymore.

[@uteaaizawl6282]

Your so lucky

[@MrBretHampton]

@@uteaaizawl6282 Yes, I was. Lita was very nice. She and my son got along well too. It made a big impression on him.

[@Chris.Brisson]

Bret, what did you leave on the cutting room floor (and was it left there at Lita's request)?

[@catlover34fl]

What a fascinating interview. Imagine the life she had in the silent film era and throughout the golden age of Hollywood movies. She seems so natural, down to earth and very interesting. I would have loved to have met her and hear more of her early life. Thank you for sharing this on You Tube.

[@catlover34fl]

@xxHistoricallyHauntedxx My poor mother had a wretched childhood and ran away from home at 16 and married my father. He was 22.

[@richardpaterson7243]

@@catlover34fl RAY GALTON

[@hollygolightly3333]

I have her book “Wife of the Life of the Party”. Really good book. I recommend if you wanna hear more about her life in the silent era and meeting Chaplin.

[@user-pe4xf6hd5q]

Miss Lita Grey, what a beautiful lady and life.

[@user-pt4df7so9i]

Her interview is here on YT. I read her autobiography recently on the Inernet Archive which is an online library. Interesting read.

[@CathyHazelAdams_Quantum_Spirit]

Wow, what an intelligent, articulate and insightful woman. Thank you for posting this - I might have to read her autobiography.

[@Joshua-mv3mv]

she dosent seem bitter whatsoever despite the marriage

[@michaelpisani5962]

Bright person who recollects interesting facts and her experiences with Chaplin and her own career,

[@MicheleMJJ]

She is a very lovely woman. I am going to have to read her book.

[@robinrubendunst869]

Michele Huffman My life with Chaplin was heavily ghost written.

[@TheEchovoices]

she lures you right in amazing lady so much sadness in her eyes

[@eileenajscanlon6362]

Oh this is wonderful to watch!
I lived in the same apartment building as Lita, on Fountain Avenue In West Hollywood in the 80's.
We became friends and I even made some old style housedresses
For Lita.
She was lovely....
I almost forgot...

[@bigbandsrock1]

I loved her. First met her at Robinson’s department store in Beverly Hills where she worked for a very long time in the 1970’s and visited her at that apartment as well in the 1980’s, bringing a dear artist, Mark Stock over to meet her! What a sweet day that was. She never talked dirt about Charlie. She seemed to express her family and others were the ones who wanted to hurt Charlie. I love his films and will never believe he was as horrible as the magazines and documentaries make him out to be. How could such a monster create the heartfelt motion pictures he painstakingly created??? But yes, Lita was a darling and I’m very grateful I got to know her as well as I did. ❤️

[@cynthiawilliams737]

Good to meet Syndney Chaplin's Mother!

[@marquizz2005]

Wonderful interview!! I am so happy I was able to watch that! Thank you for uploading! 🙏🏼

[@anniem.4204]

Wow! Fascinating interview! ❤

[@MrGlendale111]

This was a very enjoyable interview. Thanks

[@MissPerriwinkle]

wonderful.....thx lita.

[@sergitocamelot1319]

thank you

[@NellyOnofrei]

Thank you🙏

[@nondescript2892]

so we are to believe that they met in 1921 and he gave her a cameo in " the kid"..they never saw eachother again for 3 years..then one day she trucks into his studio and he gives her the lead in his major new film..on the spot ??
yea right....
the Chaplin family is very good at dancing around all of this....

[@humbertoluiz1975]

Wonderful interview

[@myahollandia3552]

Such a classy and intelligent woman! She didn't have much of a life ! Even I love Charlie Chaplin he should have
Left her alone ! Way too young for him, and yes it was normal back then for men marrying younger women but this is extreme.

[@TheeJasmine.B]

She was 12 kissing these grown men in these movies 😢

[@Pink_143_6]

Lita at 15, became pregnant by Charlie by the time she was 16; they married in 1924 when she was still 16 and he was 35. Different times back then. RIP Lita 🌹12/29/95

[@garethluvsthetruth6782]

he liked em young

[@hardcoreplayafromthehimala4888]

And not today's second hand. Probably was discussed with non virgins.

[@disgruntledpedant2755]

"My divorce...in 1928"
Damn. Just in my own time from the early 60s to today, ive seen enormous changes in society and technology. 1928 wasBARELY the first talking films. And there was so much change ahead until 1995. I wonder is she used a cell phone. Probably a carphone like seinfeld and other richies had just before handhelds. Incredible life. But I do t really think it makes you wiser.

[@Joshua-mv3mv]

strange thing about that film he made is how similar it is today the world seems to never have advanced much its as though we are still living then and now at the same time very hard to comprehend really but that's how things are .

[@euchrisssssssss]

I have watched a french documentary and the movie with Robert Downey Jr. Didnt like how the girls he married were portraied. Its good to see their side of the story.

[@claudiandracelestin3132]

A verdadeira história de CHAPLIN como marido e pai de família não tem nada de GLAMOUR.
ELE ERA UM NARCISISTA RICO E PRATICAMENTE PEDÓFILO QUE TROCAVA DE MULHERES (MENINAS QUASE CRIANÇAS na verdade), como quem trocava de roupa.
Tinha compulsão sexual. E seu NARCISISMO extremo fazia com que ele ENJOASSE RAPIDAMENTE DAS MENINAS. FAZIA O DESCARTE DE UMA E JÁ SE ENVOLVIA COM OUTRA MAIS JOVEM.
SE ESTIVESSE VIVO HOJE, ESTARIA PROCESSADO POR ASSÉDIO SEXUAL E PEDÓFILIA. ESSA É A REAL SOBRE O GENIAL CHAPLIN.

[@louisemcbride8681]

In this video Grey resembles actress Beatrice Arthur!

[@MacJaxonManOfAction]

My thoughts exactly!

[@user-rz8bu6vl8x]

Beautiful lady ❤

[@F_antomas]

She was beautiful funny woman .

[@leemartinez4428]

He was the greatest entertainers of all, may he rest in heaven

[@marcoblanco3432]

"Charlie had a family of the people that worked for him for many years" -- That is the major difference between then and today. Employees are so disposable now and the greatest, industrial people in history like Henry Ford, Harvey Firestone, Milton Hershey, Desi Arnaz, Madam CJ Walker, and Andrew Carnegie knew the value of keeping workers educated and excited about their work. All that changed with the Millenials

[@virgie4715]

You can thank the boomers for that. They raised the millennials.

[@marcoblanco3432]

Who do we get to thank for your lazy ass?

[@gamesboss6440]

this was awesome interview ... i am thinking now this is not a Real Life ... we are missing these characters... i am just 30 year old ... but i can feel ,,,, old time and then ... just mising mising mising ..

[@cutedyanna4593]

he was two people when he had the outfit on and he felt funny and he was funny but as a minute serious man he was a serious man

[@user-zj1ft5tx5f]

Where was her mother when she was dating Charlie? Sounds like her mother was in it for the money. Oona O'Neill was Charlie's true love and wife. They were together until he died and had 7 children.

[@JoanneDawes-pg9uf]

Poor lady loosening her son x

[@donttouchmysilver8202]

She reminded me of Maggie Gyllenhaal, when she was young

[@yunichirox6398]

Rip queeny.
Chaplin won't be with u anymore

[@dan020350]

💚

[@sn-oh1db]

Damn, getting old is the worst
She was so beautiful

[@CathyHazelAdams_Quantum_Spirit]

Yes, and but she was STILL a beautiful older woman, which is all we can be at that age.

[@recycledknowledge6105]

Only the fortunate get to grow old.

[@tanyasky7488]

Ageing is natural everyone will age

[@ginalane7540]

Aging brings wisdom you don't have in your youth.

[@user-rz8bu6vl8x]

​@@ginalane7540how true!

[@sandrakegelmann4878]

I like her. Feel sorry. But she talk around it, like everybody.

[@biggarfolini297]

This woman was a victim.

[@Pink_143_6]

Different times back then. She never considered herself a victim. She was a remarkable and dignified woman

[@biggarfolini297]

@@Pink_143_6 No. Not really. Having this kind of relationship was not really acceptable even back then. And she herself obviously didn't see it as a good experience.

[@sarahnour5561]

Absolutely, 100%. She was just 12 when Chaplin started grooming her, just a child. The man was a monster.

[@blink184]

There is no excuse for him being a pedo. It was 'the times.' No excuse, whatsoever.

[@arslaivanov7658]

I FIND IT BIZARRE THAT NO ONE IS TALKING ABOUT THAT HE WAS A PEDOPHILE. AND MORE BIZARRE THAT NO ONE BUT ME IS LIKING YOUR COMMENT. WHAT A SICK WORLD WE LIVE IN TO THINK IT'S OK TO RAPE CHILDREN.

[@marniekilbourne608]

It still goes on way too often today and a lot of that is still in Hollywood! It was NOT ok at that time actually either.

[@Joshua-mv3mv]

epstein

[@catlover34fl]

@@Joshua-mv3mv Prince Andrew.

[@user-uc6rg3ri3z]

なんで 黄金狂時代 1925年 リタ グレイ 使わなかったか わからない チャッブリンわ 映画作家 理解できる

[@KimF1]

Chaplain liked underaged girls. Not cool.

[@letalucy644]

Gnarly

[@cutedyanna4593]

9:47 9:50😮 10:57

[@cutedyanna4593]

he was two people when he had the outfit on and he felt funny and he was funny but as a minute serious man he was a serious man

[@cutedyanna4593]

he was two people when he had the outfit on and he felt funny and he was funny but as a minute serious man he was a serious man

[@disgruntledpedant2755]

"He was very sensuous."
Does that mean he dove on her?

[@timgillihanfan5945]

🤣

[@louisemcbride8681]

I think Grey was trying to be as tactful and polite as she could possibly be.

[@kanakulyaivan7176]

Think she’s the lady who was in city lights as a blind girl

[@yasumotonoboru]

No, that was Virginia Cherrill. Lita Grey had a small role in The Kid, as angel in a dream sequence. She was cast for the lead role in Gold Rush, but became pregnant, married Chaplin and dropped out of the film.

[@Hi-np6fj]

@@yasumotonoboru damn your videos are so old, I'm really impressed

[@MrBretHampton]

Read Lita's autobiography Kanakulya. It's fascinating.

[@user-pe4xf6hd5q]

Yes miss Virginia Cherrill was beyond magical and extremely beautiful. @@yasumotonoboru

[@DelilaSloan]

​@@user-pe4xf6hd5qshe was. She was also married at one time to carry grant.

[@sugarmagnolia1475]

The woman who inspired Monsieur ...the "gold digger" who was married for one reason.