Once a Romani woman told him that he would be famous, would be rich, would marry 3 times and would give birth to 3 children. Looking at the lines of his hand, she added that 2 marriages would be unsuccessful, and the third would be happy.
Finally, the Romani woman said that he was destined to live a long life and die at the age of 82.
Years passed... Charles Spencer Chaplin got rich, became a sir and one of the most famous artists of the twentieth century. However, he was married four times and he had five more children than the Romani woman predicted. And yet he did die in his life at the age of 82...
THE SHORTEST NOVEL
First love doesn't necessarily end in marriage, but it's a lifelong memory...
That evening, when his theater troupe performed in the "Stritham Empire", London was weary of the unimaginable heat. The young actor, enjoying the coolness that reigned behind the scenes, stood, leaning carelessly against the wall, and, indifferent to everything in the world, with sadness watching a flock of young dancers. Suddenly, one of them tripped, all laughed and rushed to help her. The most agile girlfriend looked back, accidentally met him and smiled. This was the beginning of his first and shortest love affair.
The young ballerina's name was Hetty Kelly, she danced in the ensemble of Burt Kootes "Yankee Didds Girls". She had an elegant face, huge brown eyes, radiated slyness, a little puffy, very childish sponges. Charlie was thin, built, and low. He inherited from his grandmother, half Gypsy, beautiful blue-gray eyes and blue-black curly hair. He was fascinated by this girl and lost his head. Charlie took her to the school where she studied and to the studio where she took her dance lessons. He told her funny stories and then confessed his love. The young man was in a hurry, always in a hurry when he fell in love, and was fast, hot and persistent... Kelly was scared and they broke up. The affair lasted 11 days and ended with Charlie's defeat. He was the first and only one in his long life.
...Sixty years would pass. He will remember not only their last date, but also the "smell of soap she washed with".
FORCED MARRIAGE
Chaplin discovered America in 1910, when he arrived on the shores of the Hudson with the English company directed by Fred Carneau. America discovered Charlie in 1913, when he appeared on the screen in the first short films directed by Mac Sennett.
Charlie easily caused laughter in public, but it was laughter through tears. Behind the comedy situations in which the little man in a ridiculous pot, wide pants and stumped shoes, and from which he always safely twisted, there was an eternal problem of good and evil. Chaplin's hero always, if not punished, won the evil.
It took a little time, and the actor began to make his own films. In twenty of them for eight years, Edna Perviens played the role of his bride - in life, however, contenting herself with the role of a loving woman. Charlie thought that sooner or later they would get married, and yet deep down in their hearts lurking uncertainty - and in themselves, and in Edna. He decided that it was necessary to experience the feeling of time - the feeling of trial did not stand. But even when they broke up, Charlie did not stop helping his girlfriend.
Gradually, in Hollywood, he gained fame as a conqueror of women's hearts. Rarely any of the stars could resist the charm of Charlie. He himself fell in love with young girls all the time.
In 1917, he met with the beginning of his career in cinema is very young Mildred Harris. She was fucking sweet, but he did not expect that the usual physical attraction of a man to a charming person will end up married. After romantic walks along the ocean and crazy moonlit nights the lover's stomach rounded - and Charlie was forced to marry.
The first marriage began with misfortune - the child died three days after birth. They suffered grief, but the rest of their lives did not work out. What annoyed him most about his young wife was that Mildred had acted in her own way, agreeing with him. But since she wasn't overly intelligent, everything wasn't right or right for her. After living together for a few years, they decided to part - without making too much noise. To avoid complications, Mildred had to file for a divorce, accusing her husband of being mentally ill. She promised, but did it again in her own way: stating in court that Chaplin had abandoned her, she accused him of mental cruelty, not of mental hardness, but of mental cruelty, which was not the same thing for the jury, and, hoping for a scandal, drew the attention of the press to the divorce process. Quietly and peacefully it did not work.
According to local laws, Mildred was entitled to 25 thousand dollars, Charlie offered her 100, but with the condition never to make any more claims to him. Money decided everything, he found freedom ... to lose her in the arms of the German film diva Paula Negri. True, this time it did not come to a marriage, but the novel was stormy and rapid, like the water Spree, from the shores of which Paula appeared in California.
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