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Lillita Macmurray: The Kid Still Highly Happy
Looking for another driving woman, he rediscovered Lillita MacMurray, whom he had utilized, as a lovely 12-year-old, in The Kid Still not yet sixteen, Lillita was put under contract and re-named Lita Gray.

Chaplin immediately set out on a stealthy undertaking with her; and when the film was six months into shooting, Lita found she was pregnant. Chaplin got himself constrained into a marriage which conveyed wretchedness to both accomplices, however it delivered two children, Charles Jr and Sydney

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