1. Lita Grey was the second wife of Charlie Chaplin, and appeared in his films The Kid, The Idle Class, and The Gold Rush.
10 Facts About Lita Grey
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Lita Grey was born in Hollywood, California, to Lillian Carrillo Curry Grey and Robert Earl McMurray, and christened Lillita Louise MacMurray.
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Lita Grey's father was of Scottish descent, and her mother's family was descended from an illustrious ninth-generation Californian Hispanic family, whose luminaries included Antonio Maria Lugo.
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Lita Grey appeared briefly as a maid in The Idle Class.
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Lita Grey alleged in her divorce complaint that he "sought to have her undergo an illegal operation to prevent the birth of their first child".
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Lita Grey married her fourth husband, Patsy Pizzolongo, on September 22,1956, in Los Angeles, California.
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Lita Grey wrote two autobiographical volumes covering her life with Chaplin.
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Lita Grey claimed to tell the story as it really was in her second memoir Wife of the Life of the Party.
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Lita Grey is portrayed by Deborah Moore in the 1992 film Chaplin, but Grey was depicted on screen for less than a minute in the final film.
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Lita Grey died of cancer on December 29,1995, in Los Angeles, aged 87, and was buried in Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery in North Hollywood, California.