chaplinfortheages: Charles Chaplin Jrs book “My Father, Charlie Chaplin” written in 1960
chaplinfortheages: Charles Chaplin Jrs book “My Father, Charlie Chaplin” written in 1960, gives a fair and honest account of Chaplin a father and a man. But it’s the below passage regarding Paulette Goddard and what she meant to 2 young boys of 7 and 6 that is one of the most touching. The met her in late 1932.“This is Paulette Goddard boys. Now what do you say to the nice lady?”“Syd and I lifted our heads and looked into that friendly face with its mischievous conspiratorial smile, and we lost our hearts at once, never to regain them through all the golden years of our childhood. Have you ever realized, Paulette, how much you meant to us? You were like a mother, a sister, a friend all in one. You lightened our father’s spells of somber moodiness and you turned the big house on the hill into a real home. We thought you were the loveliest creature in the whole world. And somehow I feel, looking back today, that we meant as much to you, that we satisfied some need your life, too.”My Father, Charlie Chaplin - Charles Chaplin Jr 1960Pictured Charles Jr’s book and visiting his father at his home in Switzerland with his daughter Susan Maree, Charlie’s first grandchild.Two notables pictured Shirley Temple and H.G. Wells. -- source link