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"City Lights" 223
signing of the contract was postponed till the following day. By then Chaplin had changed his mind, anyway.
The girl, whose name was Marilyn Morgan, went on her way to achieve a measure of fame, later, as Marian Marsh.
Incidentally, one of the extras in the cafe scene was also to go on to fame. Chaplin had taken notice of this girl, with strikingly light hair, in the company of an older woman. They were identified to him as a Mrs. Pope and her daughter Jean. Even before "City Lights" was released, Jean Pope was whizzing on her brief, bombshell career as Jean Harlow.
After changing his mind about Marilyn Morgan, Chaplin called back the unsuspecting Virginia Cherrill. For more than an hour the two were closeted in his office. When she came out, her face was covered with tears. But production went on.
Under Chaplin's direction Virginia Cherrill proved unusually effective as the blind girl, and certainly she is one of the most strikingly beautiful young women ever to appear in films. But apparently there was little love lost between the Svengali and his creature. After "City Lights" she went out of his life forever.
Like his other leading ladies, Virginia's career did not prosper once she was on her own. Following "City Lights" she was signed on by Fox for a minor film, "Girls Demand Excitement," released simultaneously with the Chaplin picture. After a couple of other minor pictures she returned to her first love — matrimony. She had a succession of husbands, including William Rhinelander Stewart and Cary Grant, to end, in 1937, as the Countess of Jersey. In England, she later distinguished herself in war work.
More than eight hundred thousand feet of film were shot for "City Lights," a good two years were spent on its production, and its cost ran to a million and a half.