Una O'Neill has thick hair, big eyes, and a graceful posture, and is the focus of everyone's attention wherever she goes.
Her father was the playwright Eugene O'Neill, a nobel prize winner for literature who ran away from home for a woman when Una was three years old.
At the age of eighteen, Una was preparing to enter Hollywood to audition for a movie, so she met Charlie Chaplin.
At this time, Chaplin was 54 years old, and although he had achieved fame, his emotional life was a mess.
Chaplin had a terrible childhood: at the age of two, his parents divorced; at the age of seven, his mother was crushed by life and entered a mental hospital; at the age of ten, his father died young at the age of 37 due to alcoholism.
After her parents left, young Chaplin did all kinds of chores to survive: newsboys, barbershop workers, toy vendors, glass blowers, clinic maids, street performers... At a young age, he tasted all kinds of things in the world.
Although his parents came from a poor background, they were quite artistic, and his father was a brilliant comedian and his mother was a singer.
Chaplin inherited their acting genes, and by chance, he entered a professional song and dance troupe and later joined the film industry.
With talent and hard work, Chaplin went all the way to his acting career, became popular in his twenties, and established his own studio before the age of thirty.
Chaplin succeeded, and there was no shortage of money and beauty around him, but he was not happy.
His tragic childhood life has made him have many strange habits that are criticized: slamming doors, not paying attention to personal hygiene, being grumpy, refusing to use condoms for fear of rubber and rubber products, resulting in many unexpected pregnancies...
Chaplin was a scumbag in the first half of his life, having countless lovers and marrying three times (he was particularly fond of young girls, and twice married a 16-year-old woman, Bongko).
Chaplin's companions were stunning.
The psychological shadow of childhood poverty and lack of love is enormous, and buried under the funny mask of genius is a deep emptiness and fear.
He relies on one work after another and one woman with different faces to dissolve the emptiness and fear in his heart, until he meets Una.
Chaplin fell in love with Una at first sight, "I found that she was really a radiant beauty, charming and not revealed, gentle and amiable, which was the most endearing." “
At this time, Chaplin was still in a legal dispute with his previous lover, but it did not prevent him from pursuing a new lover.
The two soon fell in love.
Una's father, Eugene O'Neill, was adamantly opposed to his beautiful young daughter marrying an old man with a messy private life, though he himself was not a good bird.
However, Chaplin and Una were married.
Eugene O'Neill was so angry that he cut off contact with his daughter after they were married, and did not change the decision until his death.
Una gave Chaplin a sense of stability and a happy life that he had not had before, and the scumbag began to become warm and single-minded, and he changed his style and began a down-to-earth life.
Una and Chaplin lived in great harmony, and the two of them were perfectly complementary in their relationship: Una found a fatherly character who loved herself, while Chaplin found a virtuous wife who was loyal to her and could be gentle and accompanied by his declining credibility.
Chaplin's comedy is successful, in addition to the witty and funny drama of the plot, but more importantly, he reflects the life of the people at the bottom of society, satirizing the capitalists and rulers.
After the end of World War II, the Economic Crisis in the United States was frequent, and Chaplin's comedy was persecuted by the government because it satirized the reality of the United States in disguise to shake the American authorities.
In 1952, Chaplin was performing outside when he was deported by the U.S. government.
They lived in exile, spent some time in Europe, and later settled in the Swiss town of Durbanberg.
During this period, in order to return to China to retrieve Chaplin's property, Una returned to California under Chaplin's arrangement, exchanged all her bank deposits for checks, and sewed the checks into the coat compartment to avoid customs inspections.
Una managed to return to the small town of Weiwei and deposited a large amount of Chaplin's fortune in a Swiss bank.
Una has since renounced her U.S. citizenship.
Since then, the couple has lived together in Switzerland for the rest of their lives and have lived a quiet and stable life.
Chaplin, who was in his fifties, was old and strong, and the couple had eight children, including five daughters and three sons.
After Chaplin and Una got married, no major works came out.
This is undoubtedly a major loss for the film industry, and for Chaplin, from then on, living in peace, plain, and harvesting a happy family can truly understand the true meaning of life.
On Chaplin's seventieth birthday, he wrote the poem "When I Really Begin to Love Myself" (each sentence is a proper chicken soup golden sentence, the following excerpts):
When I started to truly love myself, I stopped dwelling on the past and no longer worried about tomorrow, and now I only live in the moment when everything is happening.
We no longer have to fear our differences, contradictions and problems with others, because even the stars sometimes meet to form new worlds, and today I understand that this is life.
In 1975, Queen Elizabeth II granted Sir Chaplin, who was already 86 years old, the title.
On Christmas Eve 1977, Chaplin's family was full of children and grandchildren, and everyone gathered together, and the villa was happy and peaceful.
The next morning, as his family prepares to wake him up to say Merry Christmas, he finds that he has passed away peacefully in his sleep at the age of 88.
A generation of comedy masters has come to an end, from childhood loneliness and bitterness, middle-aged fame and fortune but squandering, to the old age finally harvested the happiness of life's beloved family, realized the true meaning of life, and the suffering of the world is also worth it.
After Chaplin's death, Una, who had lost her beloved, began to numb herself with alcohol.
She died of pancreatic cancer in 1991 at the age of 66.