After Chaplin’s death, Robinson benefited greatly from the cooperation of Chaplin’s widow, Oona O’Neill Chaplin, and his film historian friend Kevin Brownlow. Robinson was able to view a mother lode ...

When friends asked O'Neill about his daughter, he simply wouldn't answer. Despite much public skepticism about the marriage, Oona enjoyed a long union with Chaplin. Her adoration for the older man ...

The playwright headed west and settled in the home in which he would write his tormented, autobiographical masterpiece.

“We get a lot of Chinese visitors,” Grabowska said, “who know him as Charlie Chaplin’s father-in-law.” O’Neill’s daughter, Oona, was married to Chaplin from 1943 to 1977. Oona O’Neill Chaplin is ...