Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1961)

on trying to be funny themselves.” A shock to her Oona is a woman with an amazing knowledge of how to be a wife. She is 35 now. to her husband’s 71. but to her he is ageless. “Only his birthday is the annual shock to me,” she says, “when the whole world seems to pour into our home with wishes, cables and presents.” Her figure is still so girlish that her oldest daughter borrows her clothes, yet Oona is glad of her first gray hairs. It has always annoyed her to be called Charlie’s “schoolgirl wife.” She and Charlie are warm host and hostess in their own home, but when it comes to going out, she is anti-social. Whatever her friends might have suspected about Charlie’s keeping her hidden from the gay, outside world, they were wrong. It seems instead, that it is he who has to coax her out. “I feel our happiness depends on our being left alone,” says Oona. “In privacy he flirts with me as though we had just met. We are completely relaxed in each other’s company, we do not ask too much of one another.” She understands his crotchets and does not consider them signs of age — only of Charlie. “He is such a contradiction,” she says, her dark eyes smiling, “When we do go out, I have to carry a large supply of change to do the tipping. Then he'll go off and buy me an expensive car.” And she says, “He can make me feel like crying with rage when he won’t be nice to someone be should be civil to.” But instead of flaring up, she will squeeze his hand or kiss him swiftly on the forehead and he comes to heel — tamed. He is famous for his terrible temper, but she is one wife who can claim that “not once in all the years of our marriage has he lost it at me.” “I have learned to keep silent.” she says, “and let him charge ahead. Unless he asks me for a criticism I never venture one. He respects my judgment, and jokes that I’m always right in the long run — because I try not to get on his nerves.” This is Oona O'Neill Chaplin who protects, loves, honors and appreciates her husband. For all her good manners, she can be rude to anyone who upsets him. “Other young women,” she says, “who have married older men will understand what I mean when I say our marriage is founded on a rock.” Solid, with no unpleasant surprises ahead. The man’s character is formed, his life shaped, he has a sense of responsibility and tolerance. “We met when I was a mere child, and I have been in love with him ever since.” This is the story not known to those who speak of Oona’s marriage as “May and December,” and mourn her lifelong exile. They don’t know that, for her, her story has had a happy ending. But the Chaplins know it. “My father didn't want me to come.” the lovely young girl had told her friend. She was the Chaplins’ oldest daughter Geraldine, and she'd come to Hollywood. 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