- Born
- Died
- Birth nameLillita Louise MacMurray
- Height5′ 6″ (1.68 m)
- Lita Grey began working for Charles Chaplin at his Hollywood studio when she was 12, doing bit parts in a couple of his movies. Three years later, at 15, she met him again and became pregnant by him by the time she was 16; they married in 1924 when she was still 16 and he was 35. They had two sons before their three-year marriage ended in a bitter divorce. Ms. Grey played clubs in Europe and the US and spent eight years touring with the Radio Keith Orpheum theater circuit before retiring from show business in 1947.
- IMDb mini biography by: Anonymous
- SpousesPatsy Pizzolongo(September 22, 1956 - June 1966) (divorced)Arthur Franceway Day Jr.(July 8, 1938 - June 3, 1950) (divorced, 1 child)Henry Aguirre Jr.(September 21, 1936 - July 1, 1938) (divorced)Charles Chaplin(November 26, 1924 - August 25, 1927) (divorced, 2 children)
- Children
- Son Charles Chaplin Jr., died of alcohol abuse in 1968.
- As part of her divorce from Charles Chaplin, she received $600,000, the largest cash settlement ever in an American divorce up to that time (the decree was granted on August 22, 1927). Chaplin was also ordered to establish $100,000 trust funds for their sons 'Charles Chaplin Jr.' and Sydney Chaplin. Lita's petition included a 52-page complaint against Charlie, listing his sexual peccadilloes. He settled after she threatened to name five "prominent women" with whom he had been sexually involved while married to Grey.
- Provided the name and some of the inspiration for Vladimir Nabokov's "Lolita".
- In 1932, she lost a two-month-long court battle with ex-husband Charles Chaplin to prevent her from starring with their two sons, seven-year-old Charles Chaplin Jr., and six-year-old Sydney Chaplin, in a proposed movie, "The Little Teacher." While Charlie was away on a foreign trip, Lita Grey signed a contract with director David Butler to co-star in the film with the Chaplin boys. Upon returning to the U.S., Chaplin filed suit against her on August 25th, on the grounds that he wanted his boys to lead a normal life. Chaplin's own boyhood had been disrupted by work. On October 26th, the court ruled in Chaplin's favor. The film was never made.
- Lita was 16 years old when she and Charles Chaplin wed; he was 35.
- Charlie Chaplin's genius was in comedy. He had no sense of humor, especially about himself.
- The Gold Rush (1925) - $75 /week
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