Chaplin: A Life by Stephen Weissman

Author:Stephen Weissman [Weissman, Stephen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Arcade Publishing
Published: 2011-10-11T03:00:00+00:00

A whirlwind wooing that ended eleven days after it began and, except for one late Sunday afternoon rendezvous, consisted of nothing more than four or five twenty-minute encounters, its memory would linger with Chaplin for years and inspire his 1916 love song, “There’s Always One You Can’t Forget.” Overwhelmed by the impetuous intensity with which Charlie broached the question of marriage after such a brief acquaintance, fifteen-year-old Hetty recoiled at his possessiveness. Rather “bewildered,” she understood little of “what it all meant to me.” Addressing her as his “nemesis” (the latest vocabulary word he had acquired in what had now become a ceaseless effort to supplement his stunted formal education), Charlie pedantically informed her that “a mystic force had brought us together and that our union was an affinity predetermined by fate.”23

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