Wife of Charlie Chaplin. She was the daughter of Nobel Laureate playwright Eugene O'Neill and his wife, Agnes Boulton, and when she was two years old, her father abandoned the family. Until her father disinherited her when she turned eighteen, she only saw him a few times. In spite of the fact that her father was not around, however, she did have a normal and happy childhood. With dreams of becoming an actress, she attended boarding school in New York City, where she became very popular and had many boyfriends. Her name regularly appeared in the society pages, which displeased her father, who thought she was trying to use his fame to her advantage. She received letters from her father telling her that she was getting the wrong type of publicity, unless her ambitions were "to be a second-rate movie actress of the floozie variety." After 1941, she never saw him again, and he disinherited both her, her older brother Shane, and any grandchildren. In 1942 she went to Hollywood to try to start her acting career, turning down the chance to attend Vassar College. In Hollywood, she auditioned for one of Charlie Chaplin's films. Although she did not get the part, she received his affections, and the next year they were married. Upon their marriage, she discontinued her plans for an acting career. Her husband's previous three wives had all had acting careers, which many people have speculated may have been one reason why these marriages had all ended in divorce. She was the first one who did not have a career in active competition with his. Her marriage to him proved to be his longest marriage, a marriage which has been called "brilliantly successful." They went on to have eight children together. Chaplin's sons from his marriage to Lita Grey, Charles, Jr. and Sydney, also had a good relationship with their stepmother. During her husband's troubles with the State Department and subsequently being refused reentry to the United States, she took charge of the situation and was responsible for his retention of all of his financial assets. She also managed to save all of his lifetime of work at the Chaplin Studios, with the help of Chaplin's employees, who were still on his payroll. In addition to that, she also sold their Hollywood house, selling the belongings that were not being shipped overseas to their new residence. She made it through this return trip to the United States without any questioning by the FBI, even though other people who had been close to Chaplin were being questioned, such as his second wife Lita Grey, who refused to say anything to them. She also surrendered her American citizenship. Their family eventually settled in Vevey, Switzerland. Although she had given up her plans for a career and was content to be a devoted wife and mother, she frequently worked behind the scenes by providing ideas for her husband's movies, both current ones and older ones he was restoring and creating new musical scores for, ideas which he often used. She also served as a double for Claire Bloom in Chaplin's 1952 film "Limelight," a film in which a few of their children also appeared. Her first trip back to the United States was in 1967, to aide in the care of her mother and brother. Although she had been financially supporting them, they were not doing very well. Her mother was having serious health problems, and her brother, Shane, was seeking treatment for drug addiction. However, she eventually returned to Switzerland, and did not return to the United States until 1972, when her husband received a Lifetime Achievement Oscar. On Christmas of 1977, she became a widow after thirty-four years of marriage, and many people felt she never got over the loss of her husband. She tried to restart her career and briefly moved back to the United States, and in 1981 she appeared in her one and only movie, "Broken English." However, ultimately the loss of her husband proved to be too much for her, and she died of pancreatic cancer at the age of sixty-five.